The Web is Rich With Thanksgiving Educational Freebies!

So you think you would like to dedicate some of your instructional time to teach your kids about Thanksgiving? Well it's more than just watching grandpa snore on the couch. Here are some of the sites out there offering coloring sheets, thematic units, history, and thanksgiving games!

Thanksgiving History Thanksgiving Theme Unit-This is a fantastic page! Find Thanksgiving history written on two levels, crosswords, printouts...WOW!

Information about the First Thanksgiving from the Mayflower Compact to Graces and Psalms of Thanksgiving

The Thanksgiving Story

The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony--An in depth unit study The Story of Thanksgiving

Online Games and Activities

Find Tom the Turkey. This one you have to find a turkey hiding behind a tree.

Turkey Trivia Game from Butterball

What's Different about these two pictures?

Thanksgiving Match-Click on the boxes to find a surprise

Sliding Puzzle

Turkey Jigsaw Puzzle for Small Children

Pin The Beard on the Turkey

Tic Tac Turkey

Psalms of Thanksgiving online crossword

Worksheets to Print Out

Thanksgiving Day Crossword Puzzle to print out

Thanksgiving Word Puzzles on three levels

Coloring Pages

Thanksgiving Thankyou Notes

Songs

"Over the River And Through the Woods...."

More Songs

Crafts

Make Placemats

Hand and Foot Turkey Craft

Thanksgiving Candle TP rolls craft

I could go on and on the net is so "stuffed" with resources. You can create your own unit study or use one of the unit studies under the history section, but rest assured you can customize your study of Thanksgiving to fit your children's learning styles!

Here are some homeschool freebies!

Here is a great site with lessons on using Geoboards

D'Nealian ABC writing sheets

Visit this site to do online or offline free crossword puzzles. We picked up one on Continents and Oceans. Warning-they like those sound files!

Free Weather Report Software

Ever think about using M&M cookies to solve math problems? Check out these free lesson plans for math (K-5)

A FREE weekly e-mail newsletter of activities for kids ages 18 months to 5 years.

Free Kid's Prayer Journal

Free Pattern and Online Instructions for Decorated Gift Bags

See Cells Divide and Multiply on Cells Alive. The blood clot was good but my favorite downloadable movie was the ecoli.

Downloadable Teacher's Guide on Ancient Egypt

Free-A New Look at Pork Video