Thanksgiving is a wonderful time for some themed activities for your toddlers. As with many activities, these Thanksgiving activities for toddlers are a great way to help your child develop their skills while also having fun. Most of these can be completed with craft supplies you likely already have at home. However, many do call for some festive colored feathers, which you can find here on Amazon!
Fall Play Dough kits have become the number one activity for our household this year. Time and time again, they keep my kids entertained for HOURS. Just today, we took a kit along with us to dance class and Nora played so contently for the entire 45 minutes while Emmy was in class! I make all the play dough myself (it seriously costs less than $2 to make a HUGE amount, lasts forever and doesn’t smell like the store bought brand!) You can get all the recipe details in this post.
This activity from My Life of Travels and Adventureswould look so cute on the fridge for the month of November! Of course, someone would have to help with the footprint, but from there, let your toddler add the wings (you could even use real feathers!), eyes and feet!
We can’t make it through a holiday season without a themed sensory bin! This Fall Sensory Bin was one of my favorites of the year (second to Halloween, that one was unbeatable!) You can read all the details on what is in our sensory bin in this post.
If you are looking for printable activities for Fall, we have got you covered! We recently added our Fall Activity Bundle to our Printable Shop! It’s 14 pages of educational activities, crafts, and coloring! You can check out all the details and download here!
Free the Pumpkin! Challenge your little one to remove the rubber bands- but just one at a time! Meaning they’ve got to use their eyes to figure out which one is on top! Such a fun challenge!
Chances are, this activity could be made with items already in your house and outside your house as well! A leaf wreath made by simply gluing on leaves to a paper plate cut into a circle. Image via Events to Celebrate.
Here’s our version of this fun craft!
This activity incorporated counting as well. Roll the dice and feed the turkey the amount of acorns that it tells you to! So creative! This activity would be fun with multiple kids as well. Image via Fun Learning for Kids.
Turkey color matching craft fromI Heart Crafty Thingsis technically two crafts in one! First, the kids can enjoy making the turkey with all of it’s different colored wings, then from there, bring in the color matching activity!
How cute is this little play dough turkey?! We used the same feathers as seen is many of these other activities to make this. And that play dough is home made using our trusted recipe. Find it here!
Fine motor skills meets Thanksgiving activity! Challenge your little ones to fill up EVERY hole on the colander with thanksgiving colored feathers (available here on Amazon). Image via MamaOT.
Play Dough Pumpkins will probably be made about 30 times between Late September and November… the kids loved this activity!
Feed the Turkey. Another amazing activity from Busy Toddler! Seriously, if you don’t follow them on Pinterest, you should! They always have such amazing ideas! I love that this activity incorporates fine motor skills into a fun Thanksgiving Activity.
Teach Beside Megets extra points this Thanksgiving for coming up with an energy burningactivity for toddlers! You just need clothes pins and some feathers clipped onto clothes and a wide open space to run and you’ve got a game of Turkey Tag!
I Heart Arts n’ Crafts is another one of my favorite blogs to follow.This activity is so simple, yet so effective when it comes to helping kiddos learn to match their colors! Follow along with them on Pinterest for more great ideas.
Pumpkin Matching Memory Game from Little Learning Club. So simple to set up. Simply add sets of stickers to the bottom of your pumpkins and challenge your toddler to match them up, but they can only lift up one pumpkin at a time!
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