I am doing a little Thanksgiving feast with my preschoolers on Friday (this is my first year with my preschool) and need some ideas of fun activities to do on this day. We have already been doing Thanksgiving type crafts in class so I am particularly looking for any game or activity ideas... It will only be for 2 hours so I don't have a TON of time to fill but the feast will prob only take about 30 mins. There are 6 students in my class and they are 3 1/2 -5 years old. Thanks!
Do you have a laminating machine? Have them decorate their own Thanksgiving placemats and laminate them to bring home.
This might be cliche - yarn, pasta ( like penne) autumn color paints and have them make a 'macaroni' necklace.
I loved and still have the handprint of my daughter that was decorated like a turkey.
thumb was the head/neck, other 4 fingers were feathers. SO cute.
I am sure messy but cute.
You asked for GAMES, right?
http://familyfun.go.com/thanksgiving/thanksgiving-games/
I LOVE Family Fun magazine:)
I love the hand turkeys too! Placemats is also a great idea! You can even use leaves that you collect from outside. If you don't have a laminator (or don't want to put real leaves through it) you can just use contact paper.
I just saw some cute crafts in Parents and Family Fun this month! One of them was to make "corn cobs" using Kix cereal and marshmallow, basically a rice crispy treat, and inserting a popsicle stick. It's kind of hard to explain, but it was adorable! I'd look up the Family Fun website. I get lots of good ideas from them and they are usually pretty easy.
