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Since Thanksgiving is almost here, I thought I’d better hurry up and get off my tush and finish this post!
Thanksgiving is easily my favorite holiday of the year. I love everything about it. Our traditions, the food, the cooking, the company, everything! And I’m hoping that my girls will love it too!
First of all, here are our Thanksgiving-themed books. I pack these books up with the decorations and only bring them out during November. That way our children will have fond memories and traditions of reading these books, but they will be fresh and “new” each year!
Another tradition that I started a few years ago, is our “Thanksgiving Tree.” Living overseas makes it impossible to find Thanksgiving decorations and so I had to get a bit creative. I got some simple branches and we color “leaves” and write what we are thankful for on them. Cheap, meaningful, and turns out pretty cute when it’s full!
And here are some of this year’s leaves, waiting for Mommy to hang on our tree!
Thanksgiving Leaves If you’d like to download my leaf file, here it is! (I hope.)
And to go with our homeschooling this year, I’ve added a Thanksgiving “unit”!
The Internet is a wonderful invention for homeschoolers. I simply did a google search and found a ton of resources where others had done my work for me! (Thank you, Lord!) I decided to try this Lapbook concept that I’ve read about and printed of dozens of worksheets.
Here are our Thanksgiving lapbooks in progress. Both of our girls are doing them.
And here is a partial list of the multitude of Thanksgiving resources:
Thanksgiving Printables – I used mostly the preschool one, and a few pages from the kindergarten one.
Read! Build! Write! – Great for learning Thanksgiving “vocabulary”
Thanksgiving Preschool Pack – Great printouts (My girls love the color by numbers Turkey)
Dr. Pat’s On-line Pilgrim Coloring Book
Christian Preschool Printables: Thanksgiving
Becoming a Modern Proverbs 31 Woman 
Great post! 🙂 We have such a crazy week this week that I hadn’t planned too much in the way of special Thanksgiving themed work. They always do a little mini unit study on Thanksgiving, but that’s about it. We use SpellingCity for our spelling and vocabulary and they have a great Thanksgiving list, and a Thanksgiving Feast list, that we are going to use to play some games and do a word search. 🙂
I just printed off your Thanksgiving leaves! Thank you, thank you for sharing that! I hadn’t come up with a crafty project yet, but the Thanksgiving Tree will be perfect. We have some banner paper that I am going to try and draw a big tree on, and they will enjoy making all of their leaves to put on the tree. Then we can hang the tree on their bedroom door! Thanks again! 🙂
Hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Katie
Thanks so much for sharing more links! And Happy Thanksgiving to you too!
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