Thanksgiving worksheets for kids

The minutes are our own estimates for one child working alone, not timings from a classroom. A confident reader may race through a sheet, and a careful one may take twice as long, which is fine.

If you're printing for a class

For the last afternoon before the break, start with bingo, because the whole room plays at once and nobody can finish early. Print gives you six different cards and a page of calling cards to cut out. If you have 24 students, run four copies of each card: a few children will shout at the same moment, which is more fun than one winner. Caller mode turns your phone into the caller, so you can walk around while it runs.

Then keep a stack of something quiet for whoever is done. A word search makes good morning work, and a crossword suits a sub folder, since it needs no explaining. Answers come last in each print, so choose page 1 in the print dialog for the class set and keep one full copy for yourself. Two groups in the room? A link opens at the size in the table above, and you can change the size on the sheet itself.

Every sheet has a button for a new one, so you can print a different maze for each table if copying is the problem you're trying to solve.

If you're printing for home

Set one at each place at the kids' table about twenty minutes before you expect to eat. A maze and a dot-to-dot need nothing but a pencil and don't need a grown-up to explain them, so they buy you time with the gravy. The secret code hides the punchline of a turkey joke, and a ten-year-old will happily read it out to everyone once it's cracked. An older cousin can run bingo from a phone while the younger ones mark their cards with crayons. Skip beans or cereal as markers if anyone at the table is under three.

They travel well, too. A clipboard and one maze can get a child through a long drive to a relative's house, and the sizes mean a sister in kindergarten and a brother in 5th grade can each have their own without either feeling left out.

How to pick the size

The grades in the table are a place to start, not a rule. If a child sighs at the first clue, press Easy or Medium and nobody needs to mention it. If a 2nd grader flies through the shape code, try the Hard one, where a wheel shows how far each letter moved. Bingo's Hard card is five by five with a free middle, and its Super card drops the pictures and uses words alone.

What's on them, and what isn't

The sheets stay with turkeys, pies, parades, football, family dinners and thank-yous. They are practice and a bit of fun, not a lesson or a test, and nothing is marked or sent to us. Thanksgiving in the United States is the fourth Thursday of November, and Canada's is in October, so the sheets are ready for either. For something to play out loud, Thanksgiving classroom games has whole-class games that need no preparation, and the Thanksgiving coloring pages suit a child who would rather color than solve.

Questions teachers and parents ask

Are these Thanksgiving worksheets free?

Yes. Peabody is free through the end of 2026, with no ads, and printing a sheet doesn't ask anyone to sign up.

Will they work on a black-and-white copier?

Yes. They're made to read in black and white, on Letter or A4. On a color printer the small pictures on the bingo cards and the easy puzzles come out in color.

Can children do them on a screen instead?

Yes. Each one also works on a tablet or a Chromebook: drag along the maze, tap the crossword's boxes, or play a bingo card while Peabody reads each call aloud.

Which one should I print if I only have time for one?

Bingo for a group, and the maze for one child. Both work at every age, and neither needs reading at the Easy size.