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Thanksgiving Math Activities for Kids

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It’s time to combine some holiday fun with math when you play one of these awesome Thanksgiving math activities.

You’ll find fun printable games and other hands-on ideas to practice addition, telling time, fractions, and more. Sounds like so much fun, right?

So let’s get started!

Have some fun learning and practicing math with both printable math games and other hands-on Thanksgiving math activities for kids.

Whether you’re looking for a simple printable math game or a fun way to practice math facts, just click through each link to get to all these fun ideas.

I just know you’ll find exactly what you’re looking for here.

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Thanksgiving Math Activities

Fun Thanksgiving math games for kids to help them practice addition, multiplication, fractiions, and more.

Thanksgiving Addition Game: Add & Fill Turkey

Practice addition while you fill your turkey with this fun turkey addition game.

Pumpkin Pie Fractions Activity

Learn about fractions with this fun Thanksgiving twist to a classic activity.

Telling Time with a Turkey Clock

Practicing telling time can be so much fun with our fun paper plate turkey clock.

Build a Number Bond Turkey

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Work on addition to ten with this fun felt number bond turkey.

Math Fact Families Turkeys

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Practice any set of math facts with this fun Pin the Feathers on the Turkeys activity.

Racing Turkeys Number Line Game

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Race your turkeys along a number line with this fun number line game.

Turkey Feather Ten Frames

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Create turkeys out of ten frames with this fun Thanksgiving math game.

Thanksgiving SuDoKu Logic Games for Kids

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Practice your logic skills with this printable turkey SoDoKu game.

Free Thanksgiving Addition Game – Turkey Trot Addition

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Practice addition with this fun printable board game.

Roll a Turkey Math Facts Dice Game

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Practice math facts with this fun Roll a Turkey printable game.

Easy Thanksgiving Math With Addition & Subtraction

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Practice addition and subtraction with this fun printable Thanksgiving dinner mat.

"Build a Turkey" Number Sense Activity

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Develop your number sense with this fun printable Build a Turkey game.

No Prep Thanksgiving Multiplication Fact Practice

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Practice your multiplication facts with this fun printable multiplication pack.

Which one of these fun Thanksgiving math activities are you going to try with your kids?

Fun Thanksgiving Math Games for Kids

You may also like one of these Thanksgiving Activities:

Turkey Art Projects for Kids

Thanksgiving Word Family Game: Word Family Turkeys

Printable Thanksgiving Word Searches for Kids

Fun Cranberry Activities for Kids

My Must-Have Math Resources:

Sometimes, as much as you want to prep a fun hands-on math activity, you just don’t have the time. That why I love having a few math games on hand.

Here are some great options. Your kids will have so much fun that they won’t realize how much they’re learning.

Paper Plate Tambourine Kids Craft

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Do you remember some of the fun crafts you did as a kid? I do. I’ve always loved craft projects.

Let’s go on a trip down memory lane and do some of those fun classic craft projects with our own kids. Doesn’t that sound like fun?

This paper plate tambourine craft is a fun choice. It’s easy to make and you can make music with them after you’re done.

Make your own musical instrument with this fun classic kids craft, Paper Plate Tambourine. It's fun for preschoolers to make and play their own instrument.

Let’s grab some craft supplies and get ready to have some fun!

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Make your own musical instrument with this fun classic kids craft, Paper Plate Tambourine. It's fun for preschoolers to make and play their own instrument.

Supplies needed for your tambourine craft

Paper plate (2 per tambourine)
Paint
Dried beans
Stapler
Hole punch
Ribbon

How to make a paper plate tambourine

The first thing you want to do is decorate your paper plates. You’ll need to decorate two plates for each tambourine. Decorate the bottoms of your plates, since that will be the side facing outward.

My girls chose paint because they love every excuse that can get to throw on their smocks and start painting.

You could also use crayons, markers, stickers, or even glitter glue to decorate your plates.

Once your paint is dry, flip one of the plates over and add a handful of dried beans.

If you don’t have any dried beans, or do not want to use a food product, you can add beads or small pebbles.

Take your second plate and line it up over your other plate. Both of the bottom sides will be facing outward.

Use your stapler and staple along the edge all around your tambourine.

Leave enough room in between your staples to punch a hole. We put one hole between all the staples.

Cut small pieces of ribbon and tie them in each hole. We used curly ribbon from our gift wrapping supplies and found it worked really well.

Now it’s time to play with your paper plate tambourine.

Shake it.

Rattle it.

Drum it.

Or, hide behind it.

It also works quite well if you hold it under your chin and beat it like a drum!

What was your favorite craft you made as a kid?

Make your own musical instrument with this fun classic kids craft, Paper Plate Tambourine. It's fun for preschoolers to make and play their own instrument.

You may also enjoy one of these fun classic crafts for kids:

Craft Stick Frames

Pom Pom Caterpillar Craft

God’s Eye Craft for Kids

Pet Rocks and Pet Rock Houses at Buggy and Buddy

30 Summer Crafts for Kids at Hands On As We Grow

Make your own musical instrument with this fun classic kids craft, Paper Plate Tambourine. It's fun for preschoolers to make and play their own instrument.

My recommended craft supplies for this paper plate tambourine

You only need a few simple supplies to make these paper plate tambourines. And, the best part, is that you can use these supplies over and over again with other craft projects. Here are some craft supplies I recommend:

Outdoor Shape Activities for Kids

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Whenever the weather is nice, it’s always so much fun to take your learning outside.

You can play, explore, and learn all at the same time.

These fun outdoor shape activities for kids are great ways to play and learn with your toddlers and preschoolers.

Your kids will be having so much fun, they won’t even realize how much they are learning.

Outdoor shape activity collage showing several activities like sidewalk chalk shapes, rock shapes, and water play

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Fun Outdoor Shape Activities

Get moving, explore nature, and get creative with all of these fun ideas.

They’re perfect for anytime of the year and a great excuse to get outside and learn with play.

Outdoor Shape Activities

These fun outdoor shape activities for kids are great ways to play and learn with your toddlers and preschoolers.

Shape Hopscotch Outdoor Game

Learn shapes with a fun sidewalk game when you play our version of Shape Hopscotch.

Driveway Shape Maze

Find your way through our Driveway Shape Maze and learn all about shapes as you go.

Outdoor Shape Hunt

Grab a camera and hunt for shapes when you go on our fun Outdoor Shape Hunt.

Running Circles

Get your wiggles out by running circles and other shapes with our fun driveway game.

Geometry Game

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Explore big shapes by measuring, walking, and creating them with your body with this geometry game from Simple Play Ideas.

10 Ways to Play with Rocks {Sensory Summer} - Mrs. Plemons' Kindergarten

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Create shapes with rocks with this fun idea from Mrs. Plemons' Kindergarten. (You'll find several other cool rock ideas in this post too!)

Scooping Shapes Bubble Water Play

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Play in bubbles with this bubbly water shape sorting game from Fantastic Fun and Learning.

Find & Erase the Matching Shapes

Photo Credit: Hands On As We Grow

Find and erase shapes with water with this fun activity from Hands On As We Grow.

Making Shapes With Acorns Fine Motor Shape Activity

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Build shapes with acorns with this simple idea from Creative Little Explorers.

Nature shapes outdoor math activities

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Use nature treasures to create shapes with this fun activity from NurtureStore.

I don’t know about you, but I’d love to do all of these outdoor shape activities! Which ones do you think you’re going to try with your kids?

Outdoor shape activities for kids collage showing water play, grass shapes, and sidewalk chalk shapes.

You May Also Enjoy One of These Other Fun Outdoor Activities:

10 Fun Walk Ideas for Families

Driveway ABC Game

Silly Races

You can find all of our toddler activities at this link.

Smaller outdoor shape activities collage showing the different activities talked about in this post.

My Recommended Shape Resources

It’s so much fun to learn shapes through play. You can play these fun outside games or try one of these great shape toys for toddlers. Here are a few more playful ways to learn shapes:

Shape Hopscotch Outdoor Game

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Shape hopscotch, a fun outdoor shape game, is not a new idea to us, nor is it new to this blog. (I shared it here in the very first months of this blog.)

But, I wanted to share it again for a few reasons.

First, it’s fun and we play it often.

Second, it’s easy to do and it’s a great way to get outside.

And third, both toddlers and preschoolers will love learning with this fun outdoor shape activity!

Two pictures of children playing shape hopscotch with the words shape hopscotch overlayed. You can see the children jumping on shapes drawn with sidewalk chalk on the driveway.

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Set Up Your Shape Hopscotch Game

Grab a few fun colors of sidewalk chalk and a bare spot of cement.

Draw several shapes in a line; the same as you would do for a regular hopscotch game.

Get moving and learning with this fun outdoor shape activity, Shape Hopscotch. It's easy to set and so much for for preschoolers and toddlers.

I used simple shapes as a review for my 3-year old, but you could make things even harder by using octagons, polygons, and any number of shapes

Find a couple of rocks, grab the kids, and start playing.

Get moving and learning with this fun outdoor shape activity, Shape Hopscotch. It's easy to set and so much for for preschoolers and toddlers.

How to Play Shape Hopscotch

For our version, the girls took turns throwing their rock onto the shpaes. They had to hop to the shape closest to their rock.

They practiced jumping on one foot and they also had to name each shape as they landed in it.

For these two, the hopping on one foot was a much bigger challenge than naming the shape.

Get moving and learning with this fun outdoor shape activity, Shape Hopscotch. It's easy to set and so much for for preschoolers and toddlers.

Shape Hopscotch Variations

You can mix up this game any way you want!

If you’re playing with toddlers, just have them jump (or run) to each shape and then name the shapes as they stand in them. If they’re just learning their shapes, you can call out the name of the shape. This is such a fun and active way to learn shapes!

You can also call out a shape and have your kids run to that shape.

Practice your gross motor skills by hopping, standing on one foot, skipping, etc. The possibilities are endless.

The best part is that it gets you outside and gets your kids moving!

Have you ever played shape hopscotch?

Get moving and learning with this fun outdoor shape activity, Shape Hopscotch. It's easy to set and so much for for preschoolers and toddlers.

Find more shape activities here:

Get Crafty: Shape Collages

Shape Hunt

Driveway Shape Maze

10 Shape Activities for Toddlers at Hands On As We Grow

12 Shapes Themed Sensory Bins for Preschoolers at Fun With Mama

Fun Toys for Learning Outside

It doesn’t take fancy toys to learn outside. In fact, a package of sidewalk chalk is about all you need. But, if you want to kick it up a few notches, here are some fun tools and toys for learning outside.

Butterfly Paper Plate Wreath Craft

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B is for balloon, bear, and boat. And also, B is for butterfly.

We’re going to have fun with the letter B and also with butterflies with this fun craft, a Butterfly Paper Plate Wreath.

With this craft, we’ll combine a couple of different classic crafts to form one pretty wreath. It’s so much fun to make!

Let’s get started.

Create a pretty butterfly paper plate wreath with simple supplies. This is perfect for a preschool springtime unit or letter B unit.

Disclosure: CraftProjectIdeas.com provided some of the supplies we used in this project (fuzzy craft sticks and watercolors). All ideas are our own. There are Amazon Affiliate and other affiliate links in this article which means, at no additional cost to you, we could receive compensation for our recommendations. You can read our full disclosure policy on our Disclosure Page for more details.

Supplies Needed

Paper plate
Light blue craft paint
Scissors
1 coffee filter for each butterfly
Watercolors (We love this set from CraftProjectIdeas.com for its bright, vibrant colors.)
1 fuzzy craft stick (pipe cleaner) for each butterfly
Stapler (or tape)

How to make your Butterfly Paper Plate Wreath

Before beginning, cut out the middle of your paper plate. Depending on the age of your child, this part may best be done by an adult. Save the middle for a future craft project.

Use your light blue craft paint to paint your paper plate wreath. If you don’t want blue, use whatever color you want. We used blue to mimic the color of the sky.

While you are waiting for your wreath to dry, flatten your coffee filters. Use watercolors to paint a design on each coffee filter.

Paint a bulls-eye design (like we did above), splotches, stripes, squiggles, a solid color, or any design you desire. Get creative. Have fun!

Paint as many coffee filters as you want butterflies. We used two coffee filters per wreath, so that we could have two butterflies on our wreath.

Let your coffee filters dry completely.

Once your coffee filters are dry, it’s time to turn them into butterflies.

Take a fuzzy craft stick and bend it in half.

Gather your coffee filter in the middle and spread out the two sides (your wings).

Slip the middle of your coffee filter into your bent craft stick. Twist your craft stick both above and below your coffee filter to hold your butterfly’s shape.

Bend the two ends of your craft sticks a little so that they look like antenna.

Finally, it’s time to attach your butterflies to your wreath.

I found it easiest to use a stapler. All it took was one staple next to the craft stick to hold the butterfly in place. You could also use tape to attach your butterflies. Unfortunately, glue does not work well in this situation.

Once your butterflies are attached, your B is for Butterfly Wreath is ready to be hung up! Such a pretty kid-made decoration!

Create a pretty paper plate butterfly wreath with simple supplies. This is perfect for a preschool springtime unit or letter B unit.

You may also like one of these paper plate crafts:

A is for Apple Paper Plate Wreath

Paper Plate Tambourine Kids Craft

Phases of the Moon Mobile

Beach Themed Paper Plate Wreath at Rainy Day Mum

Create a pretty butterfly paper plate wreath with simple supplies. This is perfect for a preschool springtime unit or letter B unit.

My recommended craft supplies

This butterfly wreath is easy to make with a few craft supplies. Many of these you probably already have on hand. If not, keep a few in the craft cabinet so you can do more crafts with your kids.