Montessori Thanksgiving Activities for Young Children
Sensory:
Thanksgiving Sensory Box:
Place feather, Indian corn, gourds, acorn squash, and other Thanksgiving items in a large box. Place a blind fold on your child's eyes and ask him or her to reach into the box and feel an object. Have your child describe the object and guess what it is they are holding. Young child love this game!
Pilgrim Hats Touch Cards: Cut out shapes of a pilgrims hat out of cardboard . Purchase cotton, satin, fake fur and other textured fabrics from your local craft or fabric store. Use a hot glue gun to glue the different fabric to your cardboard hats. Have your child feel the different textured hats and explain how they feel (ex: soft, rough, etc). Keep the pilgrim hats in a basket with in your child's reach when you are done.
Math:
Feather Matching: Purchase crafting feathers from your local craft store. Have your child sort the feathers by color and size.
Feather Counting: Help your child count the feathers.
Practical Life:
Cooking Native American inspired meals: Let your child help prepare the meals with you. Your child can help wash vegetables, stir the ingredients together. Do a internet search for the recipes.
Art:
Painting: Provide orange, red, brown, yellow and any other fall and Thanksgiving paint color at the easel.
Turkey Hand print: Put brown paint on the palm of your child's hand. Then paint red paint on one finger, yellow paint on another finger, orange paint on the next, and so on. Carefully help your child place his or her painted hand on construction paper and lift up. Help paint or draw a beak and legs and you will have a hand print turkey!
Coloring: Print out Thanksgiving day coloring pages from: http://www.homeschooled-kids.com/thcrcolor.html
Reading:
Read several Thanksgiving themed books: Read to your toddler every day and place several Thanksgiving themed books in your child's reading corner basket so he or she can look at the books throughout the day. Here are few Thanksgiving related books to check out: Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks by Margaret Sutherland and Sonja Lamunt. Five Silly Turkey by Salina Loon and 10 Fat Turkeys by Tony Johnston.
It's important at this age to only introduce one or two activities a day. Once you introduce a new activity keep it on a shelf with in the child reach so she can go back to the activity as she wishes.
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Creative ideas! Well done!
Thanks, we will have to try these.
These are all very creative ideas! = )
Nicely written with some great ideas!