Trace, Color, Build Thanksgiving Words and a Freebie!

Trace, Color, Build Thanksgiving Words is an activity that you can add to your Thanksgiving thematic unit.

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Find the Spanish Thanksgiving activities here.

Before place these in a center, you can start out by allowing your students to brainstorm a few words that have to do with Thanksgiving. You do not have to make a long list. Just add a few words to a small chart and talk about the words that they came up with on that day/week (make another small list the next week, and so on). Your  small chart might look a little like this first picture. (Another idea is to  make a chart according to the categories that are mentioned at the end of this post.) I only added six words to mine. You can talk about the first sound in each word. Then, take each word and sing it along to the BINGO song as you spell it out. The longer words will become a little tricky, but you can come up with a smaller word to replace it.

After that vocabulary has been introduced, you can pull out my Trace, Color, Build printables with those particular words from my packet. Model and practice completing this activity so that students can work on it independently in a center. If your list has a word that is not in my packet, do not worry. Just give them the words that ARE in the packet:)

This is a sample of one of the printables. 

This is what it will look like after the students read it, trace it, and rainbow color the target word.

Students will then cut the bottom part that contains the letter tiles.

Next, students will place the letter tiles in correct sequence before they glue the target word.

The word is written on the printable a few times, so this will be a good visual for lower grade students.

Now, they can add a dot of glue inside each square.

Finally, your student will place the pieces in the squares.

This is what the completed work will look like:)

Get your free Thanksgiving activity sample here:)
It includes one English and one Spanish printable.

Enjoy!

The words in this packet include:

Food words: 

turkey

pie

apple

pumpkin

corn

cranberry

grapes

squash

gravy

potatoes

butter

banana

celery

peas

carrot

bread

orange

fork

spoon 

table

dinner

Family words:

father

mother

brother

sister

baby

grandma

grandpa

cat

dog

family

The First Thanksgiving Words:

pilgrim

(Native American) Indian

cornucopia

crops

hat

cabin

Mayflower

fishing

hunting

Squanto

Fall words:

scarecrow

acorn

leaf

basket