Turkey Learning Activities

With Thanksgiving right around the corner as I write this, it seems like a goof time to incorporate some turkey-themed learning into your classroom, homeschool or after school activities. Check out these fun learning activities all about turkey!

First let’s talk about real turkeys. Learn about and label the parts of a turkey with this printable worksheet from Living Life and Learning, and check out other turkey worksheets they have available.

Talk about the life cycle of a turkey with this worksheet pack from 123 Homeschool 4 Me. This one is a whopping 74 pages and includes life cycle, science terms and vocabulary, math and literacy activities all with a turkey theme. And it’s free!

The Stay at Home Teacher has three cute turkey activities, including scissor practice, color by code and a shapes roll and play game. These are great for little learners because there’s no reading involved.

Add a fine motor activity with a turkey twist to learning to count with this idea from Pre-K Pages. It’s pretty easy to set up and involves counting and stringing beads, so you’re learning and working the fingers at the same time! (There’s a printable for the turkey on their page if you need it.)

Turner Tots has several turkey and Thanksgiving themed math activities (check the post for ideas and the printables are available at Teachers Pay Teachers). I love this stuff the turkey one, which uses different colored pompoms to practice counting.

And of course there are a lot of STEM activities that you can change up to have a turkey theme. MomBrite did a STEM challenge to build a cage out of toothpicks and marshmallows to keep the turkeys safe. Friends Art Lab has a fun and colorful fizzy turkey science activity. Or make a melting turkey with this idea from 123 Homeschool 4 Me. You can even do an egg drop with a turkey twist with this tutorial from STEAMsational. So fun!

Also make sure to check out my roundup of ideas for disguising a turkey, which is always a fun Thanksgiving activity for kids.

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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