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Thanksgiving activities for kids
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Or start with Color a turkey🍎 For your classroom
Everything for Thanksgiving, in one place
| Activity | When | What a child does |
|---|---|---|
| Thanksgiving coloring pages | Any time | Color a turkey, a pie or a thankful jar on screen, or print them for the table. |
| Thanksgiving recipes for kids | Before dinner | Make a side or a snack, with a grown-up on the hot and sharp jobs. |
| Turkey cookies | Before dinner | Follow a step-by-step recipe with Crumb. |
| Pumpkin pie cups | Before dinner | Layer a pie in a cup. No oven for the child's part. |
| Thanksgiving games for kids | At the table and after | Play word and guessing games at the table, then move around after dinner. |
| Thanksgiving trivia | At the table | Answer ten questions for their age, together. |
| Thanksgiving game night | After dinner | Keep score at six card and dice games. |
| Thanksgiving jokes | At the table | Tell a joke to the whole table. |
| Thanksgiving stories | Wind down | Read a story about family, kindness or food. |
| Thanksgiving worksheets | A quiet hour | Print bingo, a word search or a maze. |
| Thanksgiving classroom games | At school | Play no-prep games with the whole class. |
A Thanksgiving day, in order
| Time | Try |
|---|---|
| Morning | Brain breaks while the kitchen gets busy |
| Before dinner | Turkey toast or cranberry sauce with a grown-up |
| At the table | Thanksgiving jokes, then trivia |
| After dinner | Thanksgiving games, then Game Night |
| Wind down | Coloring, then a short bedtime story |
Thanksgiving in the United States is on the fourth Thursday of November: Thursday, November 26, 2026. The four-day weekend has its own plan on things to do over Thanksgiving weekend. Everything here is free through the end of 2026, with no ads, no sign-up and nothing to download.
Questions parents ask
What can kids do at Thanksgiving?
Color, cook a small dish, play table games, tell jokes, answer trivia and do puzzles. The table above sorts eleven free things by when in the day they fit.
What are good Thanksgiving activities for toddlers?
Coloring with big simple pictures, Turkey, Turkey, Gobble and Parade Follow the Leader, and no-bake recipes.
What can kids do while the grown-ups cook?
A worksheet, a coloring page, a story or a Rainy Day Box card. Nothing needs a grown-up's hands.
Is any of this only for the United States?
Thanksgiving here means the American holiday. Visitors from other countries see a friendly note, with a link to something for everyone.
Teacher? Share this page to Google Classroom. Children open it with no sign-up.
Checked against how Peabody works on 6 November 2026. Written with help from AI, from Peabody's own code and library. Peabody is a learning app, not an assessment: if you're worried about your child's learning, talk to their teacher. How Peabody's pages are made.