Hands On Activities for Thanksgiving Bring FUN to Your Child’s Learning
Have ALL Kinds of Fun With Hands On Activities for Thanksgiving
Activities for Thanksgiving are great for learning about American History. You can study Columbus, the pilgrims, family traditions, early crops in America and other topics in early American life. It’s a GREAT time for your child to learn using hands-on activities, rather than just reading about it in books.
The Thanksgiving holiday season, in particular, is a great time for visual and tasty hands-on activities for learning.
You can delight your children with activities that allow them to excel in creativity. It will provide an outlet from the daily chore of doing typical schoolwork.
During the holidays, you can let your child learn by doing activities, and get away from the books. Books can cause kids with specific learning disabilities so much stress. Therefore, taking time at the holidays to have some fun can encourage your child to want to learn.
Many homeschooling families I know take time off from traditional academics altogether during the holidays. Some of them take off from Thanksgiving, through Christmas, Kwanza, or Hannukah, and into the New Year.
You can include activities for thanksgiving in your reading, writing, and math. You ca do this by baking, setting budgets for gifts, following instructions to make crafts, writing to relatives, and reading about the holidays.
Having your child make a lapbook about Thanksgiving is another great activity for Thanksgiving. It will help build reading and writing skills while having some fun with the holiday season.
Activities for Thanksgiving & Hands on Crafts
For the study of Thanksgiving, You may find these sites will provide ideas for great hands-on Activities for Thanksgiving that you can add to your studies:
- See GREAT Thanksgiving Craft Kits on Amazon like this: 24 Pack Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids, DIY Turkey Fall Thanksgiving Ornaments Decorations, Autumn Leaf Turkey Art Sets for Kids Classroom Activities Party Games Toys Thanksgiving Party Favors Gifts
- Fun and Fantastic Learning’s Sensory Thanksgiving activities
- Thanksgiving Math
- G is for Gobble, Gobble, Gobble
- Pumpkin Math
- Parts of a Pumpkin
- Rhythms of Play’s 40 Thanksgiving Gratitude Activities and Crafts
- DLTK’s Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids
- Enchanted Learnings Thanksgiving Crafts
- Education.com’s Visual Grid of Thanksgiving activities
- Scholastic’s Hands on Feast of Thankgiving activities
Online Activities for Non-Readers
