Thanksgiving Printable Activities For Language Lovers

KidLit TV encourages kids to embrace reading and writing this holiday season with these fun Thanksgiving printable activities. We know it can be hard to keep kids entertained while also providing them with educational projects this time of the year.The stresses of the Season can pile up and all the good intentions you had can go out the window before you know it. To help you out, we’ve gathered together our favorite literary-based Thanksgiving activities below!

Printables and activities from The Educator’s Spin On It:

Check out turkey-themed activities on The Educator’s Spin On It. They have several creative ideas to keep kids enjoying themselves while also allowing parents/teachers to re-enforce language. It’s as easy as:

1. Click

2. Print

3. Go!

Give kids the opportunity to strengthen and develop their writing skills with this Printable Thanksgiving Writing Pack.  Make lists, fill in the blank, create charts and more!

– The Educator’s Spin On It

Be sure to check out our favorite printable activity, the “Thankful Turkey Cards”, as pictured below. Kids will have a blast writing down what they are thankful for on these super cute cards while they are waiting for their turkey dinner.

Thanksgiving Writing prompts: I am thankful for
Image source The Educator’s Spin On It.

The Educator’s Spin On It also has a list of Thanksgiving-inspired activities for kids. If you’re looking for other activities, beyond writing, be sure to check it out!

Printables from How Does She:

Another fun way to incorporate language and creative writing during Thanksgiving is to play with words. What better way to play with words then with a Thanksgiving themed Mad Lib? Mad Libs are an entertaining way to teach children about nouns, adjectives and verbs. No one story will turn out the same. So break out the pencils and prepare to laugh and enjoy a new family tradition of Thanksgiving Mad Libs. Get your Free Printable mad lib at How Does She!

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Image source How Does She?

Printables from Living Montessori Now:

Living Montessori Now has several Thanksgiving activities for kids, including this literacy teaching printable. If you have a preschool or kindergartner at your dinner table, this website has several links and activities for you to check out.

Thanksgiving Printable Activities

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Posted by Julie Gribble
November 23, 2015, 12:47 am

About Julie Gribble

Julie Gribble

Julie Gribble produces works for children and the children’s literature community in both the United States and Great Britain. While a Children’s Literature Fellow at Stony Brook Southampton, she founded KidLit TV to help children’s authors and illustrators connect with their audience by using new technologies to complement and promote their work. Julie is also founder of the upcoming TeenLit TV which will feature video programs for YA fans. Julie has been nominated for two Emmy Awards and is a multi award-winning writer, screenwriter, filmmaker, and producer. Her charming picture book, Bubblegum Princess, is based on a true story about Kate Middleton and was released on the day the first royal baby, who we now know as Prince George, arrived. Copies of the book have been donated to underprivileged children in the US and to children’s hospices in the UK. NALIP BAFTAIn addition to producing KidLit TV’s original shows, Julie co-produced Who Killed Nelson Nutmeg, a feature film shot in Dorset, England with Bonnie Wright of Harry Potter fame, and DOG BOWL, a short film by Gordy Hoffman which premiered at the 2015 Raindance International Film Festival in London.  Julie sits on the Children’s Committee of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts: BAFTA-NY and is a member of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, New York Women in Film and Television, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She has presented at the Texas Library Association Annual Conference, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, NYC School Library System Spring Institute, and the 21st Century Children’s Nonfiction Conference.

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