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Are you looking for grade-specific Halloween school party games? Well, I have you covered. Don’t let those little ghouls and goblins down. With these great...
It's almost Halloween class party time and I'm so excited about trying out some new spooky treats this year. Let's
Planning a Classroom Thanksgiving Feast and need some inspiration? Check out these 20+ ideas for table decorations, food, favors and activities!
These Thanksgiving Day Game Ideas will keep you active while you wait for the Thanksgiving meal. They are so much fun and really easy to set up. Enjoy and appreciate some fun time together on Thanksgiving Day. Best Thanksgiving Games Our family loves to play holiday games. When playing Thanksgiving Games, our checklist is that …
Best creative Thanksgiving decorating ideas to match your style on gravetics.com. There's always great ideas for your inspiration. Follow Pinterest/GraveticsCara
The best Thanksgiving games ever! 12 hilarious Thanksgiving party games that both kids and adults will love! Also fun for Friendsgiving!
We found 9 of the best turkey crafts I could find! Scroll through and pick a few to try with your kiddos. Happy November!!
Create a simple Mayflower craft and explore sinking, floating, and wind with kids in this easy STEAM based Thanksgiving activity.
My step by step photo tutorial for how to make paper pumpkins for fall. Cute for table top or mantel decorations.
Get those little turkeys up and moving, as you build number sense and develop gross and fine motor skills, with these engaging turkey math activities!
It's that time of year to gather with loved ones around the Thanksgiving table, sharing a delightful meal and reflecting on gratitude. Beyond the cuisine and me
This is a simple and sweet Prayer Craft that would just be so adorable on the Thanksgiving table. The praying hands are also sentimental hand prints from your kids to cherish for years to come. Prayer Craft for Thanksgiving I love, love hand print crafts. What better way to set up a Thanksgiving table then …
DIY pumpkin balloon arch backdrop perfect for your Halloween party photobooth. It's as simple as taking balloons and gluing them to cardboard.
Beaded corn made with pipe cleaners is a fall craft that is easy and beautiful! A simple fall corn craft for kids and adults!
Simple DIY Halloween party ideas for the classroom, including Halloween games, Halloween crafts and Halloween food ideas!
Explore a bit of science this autumn and make turkey balloon rockets .
Adorable craft alert! Easy set-up for Thanksgiving day to keep the kids occupied.
Create crafty character headbands or use the free printable for a fun and engaging Big Pumpkin sequencing activity based on a favorite book!
Making these super cute mini Indian Corn Treats is quite quick and easy. They are adorable and festive for your Thanksgiving celebrations.
Explore creative Thanksgiving Activities for Preschoolers that foster learning through play. Discover crafts, math games, literacy tasks, and more that are ideal for preschool classrooms and home fun.
This easy to make cold spinach dip is always a hit at parties as a delicious and simple appetizer to eat with crackers, veggies & more.
165+ FREE Thanksgiving Coloring Pages and printable activity sheets–Entertain kids with these fun and interactive free coloring pages for kids, including Crafts, Word Search, Dot-to-Dot, Mazes.
It's the season of thanks! Creative Thanksgiving gift ideas for teachers along with free printables you can instantly download. Enjoy!
Thanksgiving gratitude crafts and activities are a great way to teach gratitude and nurture thankfulness at home or in the classroom.
Pumpkin flower pots! Gourd luminaries! Regardless of what you choose, your table will look fantastic.
Looking for a pumpkin template for your next fall craft project or activity? We've got you covered! Below you'll find 4 different pumpkin designs in all different sizes - Both detailed pumpkin templates and simple pumpkin outlines that you can use as a stencil or pattern. There's 25 different printable pages and they’re all free for you to download and print! These pumpkin shapes are great for fall crafts, Halloween crafts and Thanksgiving crafts. See the end of this post for some fun ways to use these templates. RELATED: Pumpkin Coloring Pages These printables are for personal and school use only.
These FREE Printable Thanksgiving Placemats for kids will make your Thanksgiving meal at home or in the classroom extra special this year!
Dress like a pilgrim with the Pilgrim Bonnet made out of paper. What a fun craft to entertain kids before dinner or make as a party favor.
I can't believe it is nearly my 2 Year Blog-iversary! My blogged launched on November 25, 2013 with much HELP and THANKS to Kourtney Payton of Mrs. Payton's Precious Kindergarteners! I was C-L-U-E-L-E-S-S on where to even begin...but Kourtney took the reigns and walked me through it step-by-step until it was published...and did I mention I have NEVER met her and we live over 500 miles apart?! So now it is my time to offer THANKS and gratitude! To help me celebrate my 2 years as a blogger I have a fun Thanksgiving retelling activity for free! Two years ago, right about the time I launched my blog, I found this First Thanksgiving retelling bracelet from Linda Ferber on Teachers Pay Teachers: At the time I was co-teaching with our building's ESL teacher and thought it would make a great activity for us to do with the children to help with language and retelling. We made these little baggies with all they would need and a copy of the poem so that parents would know what the bracelet was for: They L-O-V-E-D it! I did it again last year- and again- a hit! (2 of my girls wanted to model their bracelets with mine- and that is a rare and vintage pumpkin pie playdough ring by the way!) Fast forward to this year... I again have a class of predominately ESL children (13 of my 20 come from Spanish speaking homes). We have been working on retelling in Readers Workshop, but it has been a hard skill for them to understand and master. I remembered this activity and thought about how I could tie it to a book to help them associate the 'retelling' with retelling a story. So I created this reader! It has the 'bracelet clues' on top and then the information and picture clues beneath it! And I have decided to put this book up for FREE on my blog as my 'blog'-iversary gift to you! Simply download and print the pages and collate them. If your copy machine collates and staples, even better- but if not, just put a staple in both places shown below: Then cut the pages in half and you have 2 books ready to go! My son, who is also in kindergarten, gave it a test run for me! I wanted to have it out for you in time to use for Thanksgiving and was afraid if I waited until I did it with my class and got the pictures up it would be too late! First we went through the beads and colored the tops to match what beads we would be using on the retelling bracelet. Then he colored each page Cover: Page 1: Page 2: Page 3: Page 4: Page 5: Page 6: Page 7: Page 8: Then it was time to make the bracelet to retell the story: And he read each page before he added the bead When it was all done he then used just the bracelet and bead color 'cues' to help him retell the story of the First Thanksgiving! Here is a video of him reading and then retelling! I didn't video him making the bracelet because it would've been too long but he did that prior to reading. Think this is something your students would love and/or benefit from?! This is all you need: 1. Download the book for FREE here (or click any of the pictures in the post) 2. If you'd like a copy of the free retelling poem to tell you the colors, you can find it here (or you can use the pictures from this post to guide you) 3. Pipe cleaner and/or piece of yarn with the end taped for easier threading for each child 4. The following pony beads for each student *3 brown *3 blue *1 green *3 white *1 orange *1 yellow *1 red Give your students multiple opportunities to practice retelling using both the book and bracelet so that by the time they take it home before Thanksgiving they will be able to retell to family and holiday guests with ease and confidence! If you need additional 'First Thanksgiving' fun, my students loved these 'sticker' stories we did last year: and you can find all of these Thanksgiving resources in my TpT Store: I will be blogging about a Thanksgiving Dinner plate craft and writing activity soon too , so be sure to swing on by again! If you don't already follow my blog via Blog Lovin' you can click HERE to follow! They will send you an email each time I post something new! So THANK YOU for helping me celebrate 2 years of blogging! I have 'met' some incredible educators through blogging and am amazed at what a wonderful world it is! Until next post,
Halloween is quickly approaching and although we love to do cute Halloween crafts, we prefer to get our bodies moving and exploring, instead of just sitting at a table doing craft projects. This post shares
This leaf bowl made from artificial leaves and fabric stiffener is so cute! This DIY fall decor is so fun to make - the perfect craft for Halloween or Thanksgiving! Fall Leaf Bowl This bowl made out of fabric leaves just screams fall! It's such a simple, pretty, and creative DIY project for autumn, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. We made these fall leaf bowls by pressing artificial leaves onto a balloon with fabric stiffening glue. These are lightweight bowls that are good for smaller decorations, like chunky yarn pumpkins, and they also make great candy bowls! This is such a great
