For Discover & Explore this week we’re sharing Thanksgiving activity ideas. I’d love to hear more about how you celebrate and teach kids about Thanksgiving. We started the month off by introducing our monthly play dough invitation to play…turkeys! This is an activity option we’ll have out throughout the month.
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Materials for Turkey Play Dough
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- Play Dough-We used pumpkin pie play dough and chocolate play dough.
- Googly eyes
- Long feathers
- Short feathers
- Chenille stems
- Orange foam triangles
- Small twigs
Lovey was the first to play with this set of materials. Sometimes I introduce materials to the girls separately. This gives Tinker a chance to create in her own way without always following big sister’s lead.
When I gathered the materials together I didn’t include anything to represent the wattle, and I wondered if the girls would notice. Wouldn’t you know that the first thing Lovey added after the facial features was a wattle?
Then she spent quite a while placing the feathers just so.
Isn’t her little turkey so festive? She’s made a few different variations since then.
Tinker took a different approach in making her turkey. She pressed the dough out so the turkey was flat.
Then she added all of the different elements until she was happy with her own creation.
I am excited to see how their use of these materials changes over the course of the month. Have your kids made play dough turkeys before? What other materials would you include in this invitation to play?
To continue the Thanksgiving inspired play dough fun, check out our pumpkin pie play dough invitation.
More Thanksgiving Fun on Fantastic Fun and Learning
GET A FULL SET OF THANKSGIVING THEME ACTIVITIES
Watch this short video to see just a few examples of the types of activities and printables included in this set:
The 159-page Thanksgiving Lesson Plan Set includes hands-on activities and these additional printables:
1) Pumpkin Pie Letter Matching (in color and b/w)
2) Rhyming Turkey Game
3) Turkey Color Sorting Mats (in color and b/w)
4) Turkey Counting Mats 1-20 (in color and b/w)
5) Look at the Turkey Emergent Reader (3 variations)
6) How to Make a Pumpkin Pie Sequencing Cards (in color and b/w)
7) 0-35 Turkey Number Cards (4 variations)
8) Phoneme Segmentation Turkey Activity
9) Thanksgiving Taste Test Recording Sheet (in color and b/w)
10) Thanksgiving Picture-Word Cards (in color and b/w)
11) Thanksgiving Roll and Graph (2 variations, in color and b/w)
Also available on Teachers Pay Teachers.
OneMommy
So cute! I keep saying we need to get the play dough out more often… This is perfect for this month! Pinning it!
Shaunna Evans
Thank you! We love our play dough 🙂
Ann Fischer
Looks like a lot of great ideas here! I’ll have to link up in one of the upcoming weeks! Cheers!
Shaunna Evans
Please do! I’d love to see what you have to share.
Jen
🙂 I love your turkeys! Just noticed them on the kids co-op. We did some this week too. Great minds 😉
Shaunna Evans
Thanks, Jen! I’ve seen quite a few play dough turkeys circulating. I love that they all have just a little twist of uniqueness. Love yours!
Angelina
I love your playdoh invitations ideas! My kids love play doh (which kid doesn’t?) and I’m always looking for fun new things for them to try! Gonna check out your posts for sure! I feel a pinning party urge coming on!!! LOL
Shaunna Evans
Thanks so much! We definitely love our play dough around here. I hope you find some activities to try. Happy pinning 😉
Ann @ My Nearest and Dearest
I always adore your playdough invitations, Shaunna. This one is no exception. Super cute and fun.
Shaunna Evans
Thank you, Ann! Play dough is always well received in our house, so I love sharing the simple ideas we come up with.
Lisa Nelson
Nice project! Would you mind if I linked this up in my homeschool link up? I think our homeschoolers would think this was a fabulous project!
Thanks so much for sharing this!
Shaunna Evans
Sure go ahead! I hope your homeschoolers enjoy the activity.
Jaimi@The Stay-at-Home-Mom Survival Guide
This is such a cute and beneficial activity! I love the fine motor work and creativity involved. Time to go get some more feathers. 🙂 Thanks for hosting this Shaunna. Have a great one!
Shaunna Evans
I’m so glad you like the activity. Have fun trying it out! Take care 🙂