turkey activities – Mrs Mama Bird

It’s almost Thanksgiving!! Turkey day was a success with Emmett, my preschooler. Read on to see all the fun things we did to explore Thanksgiving and turkeys! You can also grab my Turkey Sound Cover Up activity for FREE!

I always start our learning time with a read aloud or two. I have my Thanksgiving books divided into three categories: turkeys, Thanksgiving traditions, and gratitude. Run, Turkey, Run, The Night Before Thanksgiving, 10 Fat Turkeys and This Little Turkey are a few of my turkey picks for this year.

Our first activity was an invitation to create a playdoh turkey using items in our loose parts tray. Our tray included craft feathers, playdoh, rollers, googly eyes, and orange pipe cleaners. My intention was to prepare brown playdoh for the turkey’s body, but sometimes you just run out of time! There’s always next time.

I decided to make a pink turkey with a few tail feathers. Emmett’s turkey was orange with some prominent blue wings. He took this activity a little further and decided to make a “turkey monster” to go with his turkey. He insisted that the turkey monster be featured in my post as well!

Our next activity came from Playdough To Plato, another fantastic blog. These turkey rhyming cards are FREE and you can find them HERE if you would like to use them as well. Emmett is just getting the hang of rhyming words and he loves matching games so this activity was perfect for him.

I love when I can work in some fine motor skills practice into our day. I precut these colorful turkey feathers ahead of time. I free handed them, but if you need a template, there are plenty of free ones out there! Check out my Thanksgiving Pinterest Board to find one. I presented some with lines and some without and allowed Emmett to choose how he wanted for “feather” them.

Finally, we practiced beginning sounds with this Turkey Sounds Cover Up activity. Emmett was excited to practice identifying the sounds at the beginning of each picture on the turkey. I wrote letters on simple plastic BINGO chips, but you can use anything you’d like to cover up the pictures, including alphabet erasers, playdoh and alphabet stamps, alphabet tiles, etc.

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Do you need more preschool and kindergarten phonemic awareness activities for Thanksgiving?? These little turkeys are here to help. This syllable sort can be used as a stand alone activity or you can incorporate it into a sensory bin.

To prepare this activity, all you have to do is print, laminate and cut out the turkeys and their feathers. Each turkey has 5 corresponding feathers representing one, two or three syllable Thanksgiving or fall related words. The one syllable words include corn, bird, beans, leaf, and hay. The two syllable words include pilgrim, turkey, squirrel, pumpkin and scarecrow. And the three syllable words include November, Mayflower, sunflower, family and apple pie.

You can add magnets to the back of the turkeys and feathers so that students can easily manipulate the components on a cookie sheet or magnetic white board without the feathers sliding around.

The feathers are a perfect addition to a turkey themed sensory bin. Add beans, crafting feathers, picture card feathers (really anything fall related!) to a deep tray or sensory bin. Students can hunt for the picture card feathers and place them on the corresponding turkey.

That’s it! These turkeys will add some Thanksgiving fun to your literacy centers. If you would like a set of your own, you can find the Turkey Syllable Sorting Activity in my shop by clicking the button below.

Turkey syllable sorting activity

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