These Thanksgiving Preschool Worksheets help children practice early literacy, math, and fine motor skills through tracing, coloring, matching, sorting, cutting, and pasting. With 33 activity types in a 68-page PDF, this collection gives you plenty of options for November learning.
Designed for preschool, Pre-K, transitional kindergarten, and kindergarten, the activities vary in difficulty so you can choose pages that match your children’s skills. Use them for small-group instruction, literacy and math centers, morning work, or learning at home.
🦃 What’s Included in the Thanksgiving Preschool Worksheets
Fine Motor and Pre-Writing
- Turkey feather cutting practice
- Cornucopia cut-and-paste activity
- Turkey tissue paper pasting activity
- Turkey football pre-writing paths — 2 pages
- Thanksgiving picture tracing — 5 pages
Alphabet and Early Literacy
- Letters in My Name turkey activity
- Uppercase and lowercase alphabet tracing — 3 pages
- Turkey feather uppercase and lowercase matching — 5 pages
- Uppercase and lowercase alphabet sequences — 2 pages
- Sorting numbers, letters, and words
- Beginning sounds — 3 pages
- Syllable counting
- Rhyming picture matching
- CVC word recognition
- Sight word coloring — 5 pages
- Turkey Nature Walk reader in color and black-and-white, with two comprehension worksheet options: with and without picture support
Math
- Number tracing from 1 to 10
- Finger and turkey feather number matching — 2 pages
- Pie number sense matching with pictures, ten frames, and tally marks — 5 pages
- Missing number sequences
- Number order picture puzzles for 1–5 and 6–10
- Thanksgiving dinner counting and graphing
- Thanksgiving parade AB patterns
- Pumpkin stack height ordering
- Weight comparisons
- Color-by-shape activity
Thinking, Language, and Following Directions
- Identifying the picture that is different
- Identifying the picture that does not belong
- Sorting needs and wants
- Sequencing a chick hatching
- Exploring the positional words in, on, under, and between
- Following turkey coloring directions
- Drawing Thanksgiving experiences using the five senses
Teacher information, preparation directions, and teaching tips are included. Most student activities are black-and-white for easy printing.
✂️ How to Use the Thanksgiving Preschool Worksheets
Use these Thanksgiving Preschool Worksheets to review familiar skills or introduce new concepts with teacher support.
- Select your pages. Choose activities that match the skills your children are currently practicing.
- Gather your supplies. Most activities use pencils, crayons or colored pencils, scissors, and glue. Provide tissue paper for the turkey pasting activity.
- Introduce the task. Review unfamiliar picture names, read the directions aloud, and model one example.
- Practice and discuss. Invite children to complete the activity and explain their counting, matching, or sorting choices.
To assemble the Turkey Nature Walk reader, cut the sheets in half, arrange the pages in story order, and staple along the left edge. Read together, encourage rereading, and choose the comprehension worksheet with the appropriate level of support.
🎯 Educational Benefits
- Early literacy: Practice letter recognition, uppercase and lowercase matching, name recognition, and letter formation.
- Phonological awareness: Identify beginning sounds, count syllables, and recognize rhyming words.
- Beginning reading: Read CVC words, recognize sight words, and answer questions about a simple reader.
- Number sense: Connect numbers to quantities shown with fingers, pictures, ten frames, and tally marks.
- Early math: Explore number order, patterns, graphing, shapes, height, and weight.
- Fine motor development: Build pencil control and hand-eye coordination through tracing, cutting, pasting, and coloring.
- Thinking and language: Sort, sequence, follow directions, use positional vocabulary, and explain choices.
💡 Thanksgiving Preschool Worksheets: Teacher Tips
- Choose a manageable starting point. Offer a few activities at a time and select simpler tasks before introducing more challenging pages.
- Provide a name model. Use a name card for the turkey name activity and help children connect uppercase letters with their lowercase matches.
- Name pictures together. Review vocabulary before beginning sound, syllable, and rhyming activities so children know which words to use.
- Model the coloring codes. Show children how to locate a word or shape in the key. Leave empty circles white on the sight word pages.
- Encourage careful counting. Have children touch each object as they count and compare different representations of the same number.
- Check your print settings. Pages are designed for A4 paper. When printing on US Letter paper, select “Fit” or “Shrink to printable area.”
Happy Teaching! 😊
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