Thanksgiving Activities for Kindergarten & 1st Grade | Social Studies Unit

🦃 Thanksgiving Research Project | Social Studies, Writing, Art, and More!

Make Thanksgiving learning meaningful, fun, and easy to prep! These all-inclusive Thanksgiving activities give you everything you need to teach about Thanksgiving through hands-on social studies, writing, and art activities your students will love.

Students will explore the First Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving today, learn about turkeys, discuss needs and wants, and share what they’re thankful for—all while meeting standards in reading, writing, math, and social studies.

Perfect for Pre-K through 2nd Grade, this resource includes detailed lesson plans,graphic organizers, writing activities, art projects, snacks, disguise a turkey, and even Thanksgiving hats!

💡 What’s Included:

• Step-by-step lesson plans for easy implementation
• Whole-group social studies lessons
• Thankfulness writing and drawing pages
• Needs and Wants chart and student sort
• Compare & Contrast: Thanksgiving Then and Now, Turkeys and birds
• Graphing activities
• Thanksgiving art projects & crafts
• Hats for a festive celebration
• Snack ideas and family projects
• Math and literacy centers
  

🍁 Why Teachers Love It:

• Saves you hours of prep time — everything is ready to go!
• Integrates social studies, writing, math, and art in one engaging unit
• Builds vocabulary and comprehension with research-based lessons
• Encourages thankfulness, collaboration, and creativity
• Perfect for centers, small groups, or whole-class projects
  

Included activities:

1. Schema Maps
2. KWL Charts
3. Thanksgiving lessons and graphic organizers (questions/answers, customs, etc)
4. Turkeys Graphic Organizers
5. Native American Graphic Organizers
6. Pilgrim graphic organizers
7. Favorite Thanksgiving Food Graphing
8. Disguise a turkey
9. Thanksgiving Five Senses
10. "I am thankful" Writing
11. If I were a turkey writing
12. Labeling
13. Compare and Contrast (two different activities)
14. True/False Sorts
15. Hats
16. Math and Literacy centers

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Others Have Said:

• Katherine F. says:  “Like all your products this is so easy and versatile to use! The kids are highly engaged and learn a lot from it. Thank you!”
• Katie B. says:  “This is an amazing resource to use for around Thanksgiving. It was so engaging and has great information!”
• Chelsea J. says:  “This was a great addition to my November teaching! I was able to pick and choose activities that I wanted to use! My students found this very engaging!”
• Jamie B. says:  “My students loved using these resources.  They found it highly engaging and loved learning about turkeys every day.  I loved how it worked on research skills as well as writing skills.”