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Play the Thanksgiving Gratitude Game with Your Kids

November 20, 2017 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

pick up sticks gratitude gameThere are lots of different ways to explore gratitude and make crafts related to things we are thankful for, but I thought this gratitude game from Teach Beside Me was an interesting way to talk about being grateful for the things in our lives as well.

It uses different colored pick up sticks (hers are painted wooden chopsticks) and when a person picks that color they have to list something they are grateful for in a particular category (such as a person, place or thing).

This is a fun DIY game you can play with a group of kids at school (who may have to be intorduced to the concept of pick up sticks) or with the family while the turkey cooks.

Do you have special ways to express gratitude in your family or classroom for Thanksgiving? I’d love to hear about them!

Looking for Gratitude journals? We put together a list of favourite ones here.

Looking for a printable kids journal? Check out this one in our online store for just $1

[Photo: Teach Beside Me.]

Looking for more thanksgiving crafts ? Check these out on our sister site Craftbits.com 

Thanksgiving Pumpkin Turkey — CraftBits.com

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Fall Pumpkin Candle Holder — CraftBits.com

Thanksgiving Craft: Indian Candy Corns — CraftBits.com

Paper Turkey Centerpiece — CraftBits.com

Paper Fall Leaves — CraftBits.com

Thanksgiving Handprint Turkey — CraftBits.com

Thanksgiving Pinecone Turkey — CraftBits.com

 

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Fun Halloween Worksheets for Kids

After sharing some witch themed math activities, I found a bunch more fun printable worksheets with a Halloween theme for kids to try, so let’s take a look at some more low-prep Halloween learning fun. 

Give kids practice measuring bats, spiders, ghosts and more with these printables from What I Have Learned Teaching. Kids can use a ruler, unit cubes or even little Halloween themed erasers to measure and track the size of the images. 

Practice symmetry by drawing half a haunted house, ghost, skull or other simple images with this activity from Printables Hub. 

I always love a good roll and draw activity, too, so check out this roll and draw a ghost activity (which has printable instructions) from Finding Myself Young.

Missy Printable Design has a cute set of Halloween worksheets for preschool, including tracing the letter H and a haunted house, spider counting, number tracing, sequencing, coloring pages and more. 

The Halloween themed printables from The Artisan Life are meant to be playdough mats, and you can definitely use them for that to make the shape and trace the letters. But you could also use pipe cleaners or Wikki Stix, or line up buttons or anything else on them. 

Older kids will enjoy this witch’s brew logic puzzle from Education.com. The witch has made different potions with different colors that do different things, and using the clues you can figure out which one is which. (Don’t worry; there’s an answer key included if you can’t figure it out on your own!)

Another fun puzzle is this decoder activity from Crafting Cheerfully. The holiday icons each represent a letter, and kids can use the decoder to answer the riddle. This isn’t a free resource (and the link in the post is broken but you can find it here) but it includes 20 riddles and an editable file so you can make up your own codes to decipher. 

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