Thanksgiving Activity Wall

For our November activity wall, we decided to incorporate Thanksgiving by making a turkey. Each day we will "pluck a feather" from the turkey. Each feather has a different activity.

We started by drawing a turkey on white paper. I cut  it out and placed it on our activity wall.

Then I drew four feathers on a piece of cardstock. I cut 2-3 pieces of paper at a time. I used brown, orange, yellow, and red cardstock (7 pieces of paper total for 28 feathers)

Then we taped on the feathers. 

Our November activities are...

Rake leaves and jump in the piles

Make brown paper bag drumsticks filled with candy and give to the neighbors

Make a pumpkin pie

Make a hand/footprint turkey

Make a turkey wreath

Make acorn doughnut holes

Make turkeys out of apples and other fruits

Paint Native Americans

Read the Thanksgiving story

Make cornicopias out of sugar cones

Make clothespin turkeys

Make a handprint Mayflower ship

Make turkey suckers

Make paper plate Pilgrams

Make a turkey hat

Make tureky cupcakes

Make pinecone turkeys

Make turkeys out of disposable clothes, fruit loops, and cheerios

Thanksgiving handprint poem for Grandparents

Make a thankful for spinner

Make a turkey out of paper plate and tissue paper

Make Thanksgiving centerpieces

Make teepees

Make a Thankgiving headband

Paint Calico corn

Make turkey cups

Make a shape cornicopia

Make a family turkey handprint picture

Thankful Tree

For the second year, my family has put together a "Thankful Tree" for the month of November. This helps remind all of us of the many things we have to be thankful for. Every day we all put something we are thankful for on a leaf. This is such a powerful activity because everyone in the family puts down things they are thankful for.

We started by using brown paper to make a tree with limbs.

I found a leaf template and cut it out. I traced it on one piece of construction paper. Then, I placed 5-6 pieces of construction paper under the traced paper and made 5-6 leaves at a time. 

We put our names and Day 1-Day 30 on all of the leaves. Each day we will add something we are thankful for next to our names.

All of the blank leaves are at the bottom of the tree. Every day we will add the next leaf with the things we are thankful for. 

(We had some crafting leaves left over from a past craft, so the boys added some of those to our tree as well.) 

This is what our tree looked like last year.