Thanksgiving Toddler Activities
Keep your little ones entertained this month with one or more of these Thanksgiving toddler activities. Build fine motor skills, make crafts, and more.
Toddlers want to participate in your Thanksgiving activities just like their older siblings.
With this collection of simple but engaging crafts and activities, your toddlers can participate with activities that are geared to their abilities and needs.
If you’re looking for a way to have fun with toddlers this holiday season, look no further.
From mess free painting to building playdough turkeys and many more engaging activities, you’re sure to find something your toddlers will love on the list below.
Thanksgiving Toddler Activities
Allow your toddler a chance to create a mess free turkey with a few simple supplies. Your child will have fun while the mess stays in the bag!
Does your toddler enjoy finger puppets? Create a fun turkey finger puppet for Thanksgiving this year!
Give your toddler a chance to create their own turkey out of playdough. Set up this invitation to play and it’s sure to engage your little one.
Explore some science with your toddler and a cranberry sensory bin. Scoop, dump, count and enjoy cranberries with this easy to set up activity.
Invite children to shake these simple corn shakers to the beat of a favorite song. Make these recycled instruments in less than 5 minutes for big noise fun!
Simple activities are sometimes the best for toddlers. Allow your child to create a paper plate turkey decoration with just a little bit of prep.
Practice counting and one to one correspondence by adding feathers to a play dough turkey.
Your toddler can use their fine motor skills with this turkey feathers fine motor activity.
Remember your child’s hand size this Thanksgiving with a cute handprint turkey craft.
With a little prep by an adult, even young toddlers can enjoy this turkey suncatcher craft.
Count to five with these five little turkeys art project perfect for small toddler hands.
Create a colorful activity by making this paper punch color match turkey for your child.
Have you ever made a thankful hands Thanksgiving craft? Use your child’s hand as the template.
Work on teaching your child their name with a feather letter turkey project.
Give your toddler a fun Thanksgiving themed placemat to look at during meal time!
I love that you can make these adorable Paper Turkey Finger Puppets from scraps of paper.
Your child will be having so much fun with this paper plate craft that they won’t even realize they are learning all about their colors.
Create this cute cookie cutter stamped placemat just in time for Thanksgiving.
PRESCHOOL BOOKS ABOUT THANKSGIVING
Fill your book basket with a great collection of Thanksgiving picture books. Most of these books can be found at your local library or used bookstore.
If you have a hard time finding them, you can order them through my Amazon affiliate links by clicking the images below.
How to Catch a Turkey – A turkey is running loose in a school right before a Thanksgiving play. Can YOU help catch it? Follow along as students turn their school upside down trying to catch the turkey, ending with a twist that ensures no turkeys are harmed (or eaten!).
Turkey Trouble – Turkey is in trouble. Bad trouble. The kind of trouble where it’s almost Thanksgiving . . . and you’re the main course. But Turkey has an idea–what if he doesn’t look like a turkey? What if he looks like another animal instead?
10 Fat Turkeys – Girls and boys will gobble up this hilarious story about ten goofy turkeys and their silly antics: swinging from a vine, strutting on a boar, doing a noodle dance, and more.
Teaching Resources
Do you smell that? Is it fall or your new pumpkin pie play dough kit. This homemade pumpkin scented play dough kit is perfect as a party favor, holiday goody bag or even a fun activity at home.
Welcome autumn and encourage creativity in your children with this fall-themed felt creations busy bag. Practice counting and exploring patterns as you put on the turkey’s feathers.
Tara is the brains behind Homeschool Preschool, where her journey from preschool and public school teacher to homeschooling mom of three fuels her passion for early childhood education. With a blend of expertise and firsthand experience, Tara’s writings offer practical tips and engaging resources to support families in creating meaningful learning adventures at home.