Thanksgiving worksheets & activities
Free, printable Thanksgiving activities for kindergarten through 5th grade and special education. Each one opens in a worksheet maker with the Thanksgiving theme already chosen — keep our words or type your own, then print.
Color by word & color by number
A Thanksgiving picture with a word or a math fact in every space. Students read each one and color it by the key, which is quick to check at a glance. Each sheet comes with an answer key.
Thanksgiving game boards
A turkey-and-pie game board with word cards to cut apart. Roll a die, move, then read, spell or use the word you land on. A good fit for centers, small groups and the day before break.
Hands-on & multisensory
Activities students touch, build and move, which help a lot of early readers and many students with disabilities. Ideas for using them are further down the page.
Thanksgiving & fall picture book companions
Read-aloud favorites with vocabulary and comprehension questions for the beginning, middle and end of each book.
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Make it hands-on
Sensory bin letter hunt
Fill a bin with dried corn, beans or fall leaves and bury the letter tiles. Students dig out a tile, say its sound, and build a word from the Thanksgiving list on the table. Watch closely with small items.
Build it before you write it
On a Read it, Make it, Write it sheet, students make each word with letter tiles, playdough, pipe cleaners or Wikki Stix before writing it. Building the word first gives them more ways to remember it.
Real game pieces
Use pumpkin seeds, mini erasers or buttons as game board markers and a big foam die. Students who need fewer words can play with just three or four cards.
Make coloring easier
Print color by word sheets at 11 x 17, use dot markers instead of crayons, or have students trace the word before coloring. A student can also point to the crayon while a partner reads the word.
Thanksgiving word lists by grade
K–1 · 2nd–3rd grade
Ready-made lists. Click a worksheet to open it with these words, then add, remove or change any of them.
Thanksgiving words for K–1
turkey, pie, corn, leaf, fall, feast, thank, food, family, give
Thanksgiving words for 2nd–3rd grade
thankful, grateful, harvest, pumpkin, autumn, gather, parade, gravy, cranberry, tradition, celebrate, together
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