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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.

Invitation to Create-Turkey Play Dough

GET A FULL WEEK OF THANKSGIVING THEME ACTIVITIES IN OUR PRINTABLE PRESCHOOL LESSON PLANS.

 

Materials for Turkey Play Dough


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?

Turkey Waddle-kids play dough

Then she spent quite a while placing the feathers just so.

Thanksgiving Fine Motor Activity-Turkey Play Dough

Isn’t her little turkey so festive? She’s made a few different variations since then.

Play Dough Turkey for Preschool

Tinker took a different approach in making her turkey. She pressed the dough out so the turkey was flat.

Toddler Play Dough for Thanksgiving

Then she added all of the different elements until she was happy with her own creation.

Play Dough Turkey for Toddlers

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.

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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.

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  4. 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

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  6. 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!

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