Thanksgiving Printables for the Table

November 10, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

If you’ve got a bunch of kids (or even just a couple of kids) coming over for Thanksgiving, you might need some things to entertain them while they wait for the food to be ready. These Thanksgiving printables are great to use at the table or whenever you need something to fill a little time, and honestly adults will like some of these, too.

Activity placemats are a classic for kids, and they’re great to have on hand for Thanksgiving if there’s a lull between courses or while kids wait for food to get passed to them.

Crafting a Lovely Life has a few different options including a coloring sheet and one for writing what you’re thankful for, but my favorite includes a space to draw your dinner, a word search, word scramble and game grids for tic-tac-toe.

Artsy Fartsy Mom has one with a turkey to color, a word search, a place to write what you are thankful for and some tic-tac-toe spaces as well.

And Skip to My Lou has a few different printable Thanksgiving placemat activity sheets. The one that caught my eye includes an I-spy, a color by number and other things to color, words to unscramble and more that’s sure to keep kiddos occupied.

If you like word games, try the Thanksgiving Mad Libs from Jac of All Things, or this Finish the Phrase game from The Crafting Chicks (one person decides what the answers are and everyone else tries to guess what they picked). Both kids and adults can challenge themselves to come up with something they are thankful for from A to Z with this printable from PJs and Paint.

Don’t miss the printable Thanksgiving jokes from Kristin Duke Photography. A sample: Why did they let the turkey join the band? Because he had the drumsticks!

Play Thanksgiving Bingo with the printable cards from One Creative Mommy, or try a Thanksgiving I Spy from The Best Ideas for Kids.

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Celebrate Inventor’s Day by Learning about Inventors

Several countries have a day set aside to honor and recognize their inventors, but Nov. 9 is a special one that’s known as Tag der Erfinder in German. It’s celebrated in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and it falls on Nov. 9 because that’s the birthday of Hedy Lamarr.

Hedy Lamarr is widely known as an actress but there’s a lot more to her story. You can get a little of it geared to little kids in the Little People, Big Dreams book Hedy Lamarr (32 pages, hardcover, published 2023 by Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, suggested retail price $15.99).

The book explores her birth in Austria and how she spent time when she was young coming up with inventions. She became an actress, married an arms dealer, made her escape to America and became an actress again.

But she also helped develop a frequency-hopping signal device for airplanes that was used by the Americans and their allies during World War II. That technology became the basis for wireless technology such as wifi and GPS.

While Inventor’s Day is a great time to learn about Hedy Lamarr, you can take this opportunity to check out books and do little studies on lots of different inventors. If there’s an inventor or an invention your child is particularly interested in, that’s a great place to start. It’s fun to think about all the things we use every day that didn’t always exist; someone had to invent them!

For a start here at Craft Gossip you can learn more about Garrett Morgan, who invented traffic lights; Maria Oroso, who developed a clay oven that could cook food without electricity; and more female inventors and scientists.

And for more general inventors’ fun, check out this inventors word search from Fun Findery (and another from Let’s Do Puzzles) or take a quiz on inventors and their inventions from Flanders Family Home Life.

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