Thanksgiving No Prep Preschool Worksheets & Activities

Teaching your first Thanksgiving unit can be such a fun experience. You want to celebrate the season, keep learning meaningful, and help your preschoolers understand gratitude in a simple, age-appropriate way. The Thanksgiving No Prep Preschool Worksheets & Activities packet makes that easy.

This ready-to-print resource includes 33 Thanksgiving-themed pages designed for preschool, pre-kindergarten, transitional kindergarten, and kindergarten. Each activity builds important early learning skills like fine-motor control, phonemic awareness, counting, and sorting through engaging, seasonal visuals your students will love.

Let’s explore what’s included and how each section helps your little learners grow.

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Fine Motor & Pre-Writing Skills

These activities are perfect for introducing scissors, tracing, and gluing. They help children strengthen fine-motor control while expressing creativity.

• Turkey Feather Letters in My Name – Children color the letters that make up their name, then write it on the handwriting line.
• Turkey Feather Cutting Practice – Students cut along the curved lines to form turkey feathers.
• Cornucopia Cut and Paste Fun – Children color and paste fruits and vegetables into the cornucopia.
• Turkey Football Pre-Writing Practice (2 pages) – Students trace along zigzags and curves to help the turkey reach the football.
• Thanksgiving Tracing Fun (5 pages) – Students trace dotted paths on ships, pumpkins, and turkeys to build pencil control.
• Turkey Pasting Fun – Children color the turkey and glue scrunched tissue paper onto its feathers for a textured art activity.

These pages combine art, early writing, and hand-eye coordination practice, making them ideal for centers or early finishers.

Alphabet and Phonics

This section supports letter recognition, sequencing, and sound awareness with colorful Thanksgiving themes.

• Thanksgiving Syllables – Children count the number of syllables in words like corn, pie, and turkey.
• Thanksgiving Alphabet Sequence (2 pages) – Students trace and fill in missing letters to complete the alphabet.
• Turkey Feather Alphabet Matching (5 pages) – Match each turkey body letter to its feather for fun letter review.
• Thanksgiving Beginning Sounds (3 pages) – Students color pictures that begin with the target sound.
• Alphabet Tracing (2 pages) – Trace uppercase and lowercase letters paired with simple Thanksgiving images.

These activities build strong connections between letters, sounds, and vocabulary—important foundations for early reading.

Word Work and Early Reading

Preschool and kindergarten students practice decoding, rhyming, and early comprehension with short, themed tasks.

• Thanksgiving CVC Words – Students color the CVC word that matches each picture (e.g., sun, hat, ham).
• Thanksgiving Rhyming Words – Identify and color the picture that rhymes with the first word in each row.
• Thanksgiving Sight Words (5 pages) – Practice sight words such as I, can, me, and you using color-by-code.
• Turkey Nature Walk Story (color and blackline) – A short illustrated story followed by simple comprehension questions.

These reading and word-work pages help children build decoding confidence, vocabulary, and early comprehension skills.

Numbers, Counting, and Patterns

The next section supports number recognition, sequencing, and comparison through playful Thanksgiving visuals.

• Turkey Feathers Number Match (2 pages) – Match each numeral to the correct number of feathers.
• Thanksgiving Number Order (2 pages) – Cut and paste number pieces in order from 1–5.
• Thanksgiving Parade Patterns (AB) – Complete AB pattern rows using fun parade pictures.
• Thanksgiving Missing Numbers – Fill in missing numbers in short sequences.
• Thanksgiving Dinner Number Tracing – Trace numbers 1–10 alongside Thanksgiving foods.
• Pie Number Sense Match (5 pages) – Match numerals and ten-frames to quantities.

Each page offers gentle practice with counting and number sense while keeping math light and engaging.

Math and Early Measurement

Students explore early concepts like weight, size, and shapes through colorful Thanksgiving objects.

• Thanksgiving Weight – Circle the object that is heavier in each row.
• Thanksgiving Dinner Count and Graph – Count items and color the bar graph to represent data.
• Pumpkin Stack Height Order – Cut and paste pumpkins from shortest to tallest.
• Thanksgiving Shapes – Color each section by shape to create a festive turkey.
• Thanksgiving Parade Prepositions – Identify positional words such as in front of, behind, and next to using parade images.

These math pages combine observation, comparison, and early geometry in an enjoyable, visual format.

Thinking and Sorting Skills

Preschoolers love to observe and classify. These activities build early reasoning and comprehension.

• Hatching Chick Sequencing – Cut and paste the pictures to show the chick hatching sequence.
• Thanksgiving What Doesn’t Belong? – Circle the picture that does not fit with the group.
• Thanksgiving Sorting (Needs/Wants) – Sort items into “needs” and “wants” categories to build practical thinking.
• Turkey Read and Color – Read the color key and follow directions to color the turkey correctly.
• Thanksgiving What Is Different? – Identify the image that looks different in each set.
• Thanksgiving Five Senses – Match items to sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell.

These reasoning tasks build visual discrimination, sequencing, and comprehension—all essential school-readiness skills.

Teaching Thanksgiving with Cultural Sensitivity

When teaching Thanksgiving to young children, focus on gratitude, kindness, and community rather than simplified historical stories. The familiar tale of Pilgrims and Native Americans sharing a feast is a mythologized version (National Museum of the American Indian).

If you reference Native peoples, use specific names such as the Wampanoag and choose stories by Indigenous authors for authentic representation. When introducing concepts like “then and now,” you might say, “We’re learning how people long ago and people today both give thanks and help others.” This gives children historical context without oversimplifying or misrepresenting the past.

Educational Benefits

• Strengthens fine-motor, cutting, tracing, and pre-writing skills
• Builds alphabet knowledge, phonemic awareness, and sight word fluency
• Develops number sense, patterning, and comparison understanding
• Promotes sorting, sequencing, and reasoning abilities
• Encourages gratitude, cooperation, and inclusivity
• Easy print-and-go setup for busy preschool and kindergarten teachers

The Thanksgiving No Prep Preschool Worksheets & Activities packet helps you create a joyful and meaningful November learning experience. Each page blends fun visuals with purposeful skill practice, keeping students engaged while you enjoy stress-free preparation.

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