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By Amanda Boyarshinov 2 Comments

Thanksgiving Writing Prompts and Afterschool Activities

Thanksgiving Writing Prompts for Kids from The Educators' Spin On It

Writing is often not addressed as much as reading and math in our schools and homes, but it is just as important for our children to experience writing for a variety of purposes. As parents, we can have our kids write while we are making dinner, before bed, or even while they are eating breakfast in the morning (but only if they are awake and ready to go in the morning).

My kids are writers and we make time every day to write something. What I love about writing is that you don’t need any fancy equipment or print outs, a piece of paper and something to write with is all you need.

These are a collection of writing prompts that are great for teachers, parents, and homeschoolers.

Thanksgiving Writing Prompts for Kids

1. Write a list of what you are thankful for.

thankful list, elementary school writing

2. Draw a picture of a real turkey.  Describe how it looks in sentence below. What colors do you see? What textures?

3. Make a list of Thanksgiving manners and illustrate them. Using words like thou instead of you like the pilgrims would have done makes it OH so much more fun. It also is a great manner reminder before eating a feast!

manners, elementary school writing

4. Write out a menu for the guests of your holiday feasts.  See if you can figure out if all the food groups are equally represented.

5. E-mail a family member that you will be seeing this week and tell them how excited you are. Make sure to use salutations and proper spelling.

homemade calendar

6. Make your own homemade calendar to start counting down the days until the holiday in December that Mom says you can’t start talking about until after Thanksgiving.

7. Write about how you would want to help someone in your community.  Then, talk with an adult about how to make this happen.

helping others

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: grade school, Thanksgiving, Turkeys

About Amanda Boyarshinov

K - 12 masters reading teacher, author and mom to 3. Amanda is a National Board Certified teacher with oodles of experience in early childhood education.

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Comments

  1. Missy says

    November 25, 2013 at 1:03 pm

    Great Thanksgiving ideas! Thank you for featuring these! Thank you for hosting this linky too 🙂

    Reply
  2. Natalie AfterschoolForSmartyPants says

    November 25, 2013 at 6:16 pm

    Great ideas. I especially love "How you could help others" prompt. Thanks for co-hosting Afterschool!

    Reply

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