Less than $5 7th Grade Thanksgiving Activities

Looking for a high-engagement, Thanksgiving-themed resource to teach author’s purpose? This Thanksgiving Author’s Purpose Unit is perfect for grades 5-7 and provides students with five unique, double-sided passages (10 pages total) to help them practice identifying and analyzing different author’s purposes—all with a festive, fall twist!

This resource includes everything you need for a whole-group lesson, centers, or intervention, and is perfect for engaging students with seasonal content while building critical reading skills.
What’s Included:

• A complete 75-minute lesson plan that guides students through understanding author’s purpose, with adaptable options for different teaching formats.
• 5 double-sided passages, each representing a different author’s purpose (Persuade, Inform, Entertain, Explain, Instruct), all tied to Thanksgiving topics!
• Interactive slides and guided notes: Use the 12-slide deck to introduce or review author’s purpose while students complete fill-in-the-blank notes to stay engaged.
• Multiple-choice and open-ended questions for each passage: Help students analyze the author’s intent, tone, and type of text.

Sample Thanksgiving Passages Include:

• A persuasive speech from a turkey asking to be saved!
• A critical speech on Thanksgiving’s environmental impact.
• An entertaining story of a Thanksgiving disaster.
• A step-by-step instructive speech on how to cook Grandma’s famous stuffing.

This resource is ideal for teaching the author’s purpose in a fun, seasonal way with relevant Thanksgiving content that students will love. Whether you use it for whole-group instruction, stations, or small-group intervention, your students will be "thankful" for how engaging this resource is!
What’s Included:

• 75-minute lesson plan
• 5 double-sided, Thanksgiving-themed passages (10 pages total)
• Slide deck and fill-in-the-blank guided notes
• Multiple-choice and open-ended questions for each passage

Help your students master the skill of identifying author’s purpose while enjoying Thanksgiving-themed content! Perfect for ELA centers, whole-class lessons, or small-group intervention.

Add some festive fun to your math lessons this fall with this Fall Thanksgiving Coordinate Grid Graphing activity! Students will practice their graphing skills by plotting points to create a charming picture of an owl perched on a tree limb with the word "FALL" displayed beneath it. This engaging activity reinforces coordinate plane concepts while providing a seasonal touch perfect for autumn.

What's Included:

• Two Versions for Differentiation:

  • 1st Quadrant Only: Ideal for beginners, focusing on positive coordinates for easier plotting.
  • All Four Quadrants: A more advanced version for students comfortable graphing with positive and negative coordinates.

• No Decimals: Coordinates are whole numbers only, making the activity straightforward and accessible for students.

• Answer Key: Includes a fully completed graph to make grading quick and easy.

Why You'll Love It:

• Engaging & Festive: Students will enjoy watching the owl and "FALL" design come to life as they graph, making this a perfect pre-holiday activity or math center for the fall season.
• Skill Reinforcement: This activity strengthens students' ability to plot points, understand the coordinate plane, and follow directions—all while having fun.
• Great for Sub Plans: The straightforward instructions and self-contained nature of the activity make it a fantastic choice for substitute teachers, ensuring students stay productive and engaged.
• Differentiation Options: With versions for both single-quadrant and full-quadrant graphing, this resource accommodates different skill levels in your classroom.

Perfect for classwork, homework, or as a fun seasonal math activity, this Thanksgiving Coordinate Grid Graphing resource brings math practice and creativity together. Add it to your teaching toolkit for a no-prep, engaging lesson that students will love!

A great Thanksgiving activity to reinforce map skill!

This fun activity is great for your students the week before Thanksgiving break! We all know how things get crazy! Not only will they have fun working together or individually to solve the puzzle, but they will have the opportunity to practice reading latitude and longitude coordinate grid system (absolute location). Each moment is a teaching moment, and this will allow reinforcement of their map reading skills. They will use the absolute locations that are provided on the key and identify the points on the cordinate grid, drawing one line from one point to another. End the end, they have a photo to color and decorate!

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Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to explore the history of the Thanksgiving holiday with your students!

Key Terms Include:

• Wampanoag
• Gratitude
• Thanksgiving Proclamation
• Plymouth
• New World
• Pies
• Harvest Festival
• Squanto
• Mayflower
• Cranberries
• Pilgrim Hat
• Feast
• Harvest
• Turkey
• Thanksgiving
• Pilgrims
• Governor Bradford
• Cornucopia
• Autumn
• Colonists
• Tradition
• Proclamation
• Pumpkin
• Massasoit

Looking for a Thanksgiving-themed, engaging and informative reading comprehension activity? This scavenger hunt is designed to help students practice skim reading, looking for context clues, and learn some useful vocabulary.

It’s perfect for EFL / ESL students at the B1/B2 level and can also be used for native English classes at grade levels 5th - 7th. With low prep, just print and hang, it contains 10 reading passages about Thanksgiving, its history and traditions.

The scavenger hunt is designed so that students have to revisit and reread the reading passages multiple times when looking for code words. The answer to each question is located on a different reading passage card. Once students have answered all the questions, they unscramble the letters to reveal the final answer - the name of the murderer.

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

♥ 10 reading passages

♥ answer sheets

♥ mission page

♥ directions

♥ teacher answer key

♥ conclusion

Options for use:

☻Independent Work

☻Pair Work

☻Sub plan

☻Stations

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Thanksgiving SEL Activity: A Fun and Interactive Way to Learn and Grow

Looking for a unique and engaging way to celebrate Thanksgiving while fostering social-emotional learning (SEL) skills? Our interactive Thanksgiving SEL activity is the perfect solution! This comprehensive resource includes a variety of activities designed to help students develop essential skills such as empathy, gratitude, and self-awareness.

Key Benefits for Students:

• Enhanced Empathy: Activities like "This or That" encourage students to consider different perspectives and develop empathy for others.
• Increased Self-Awareness: Reflective writing prompts help students explore their own thoughts and feelings, leading to greater self-understanding.
• Improved Social Skills: Collaborative activities like creating a turkey with shapes promote teamwork and communication skills.
• Boosted Creativity: Interactive elements like drag-and-drop and digital coloring pages spark imagination and creativity.
• Strengthened Gratitude: Gratitude journaling and reflection exercises cultivate a sense of thankfulness and appreciation.

By incorporating these fun and interactive activities into your Thanksgiving lesson plans, you can create a meaningful and memorable learning experience for your students.

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Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks, and students can write their own "Thank You" cards using 20 designs in English and Spanish to color and make. Includes Thanksgiving related graphics, such as: Pilgrims Native American Turkeys Fall Scenes Blank Template Directions and Optional Activities Excellent assessment for grammar and writing while encouraging gratitude.

"Fun and Creative Thanksgiving Activities for Kids!"
Make this holiday memorable with an exciting Thanksgiving craft that’s perfect for kids of all ages! This Thankful Handprint Craft is a wonderful way to combine creativity with the spirit of gratitude. Children will use their handprints or fingerprints to create a beautiful Thankful Tree, decorating it with colorful leaves and writing down what they’re thankful for.

This engaging Thanksgiving activity is ideal for classrooms, preschool, or a fun family project at home. It encourages creativity, fine motor skills, and the importance of giving thanks. Whether you're looking for a heartfelt keepsake or a fun craft for kids, this project is a must-try for the holiday season.

Gather your supplies and let little hands bring Thanksgiving to life with art, gratitude, and fun!

Fall Autumn season | Thanksgiving Word Search are the best activities for brain teasing labyrinths, these exercises support learning through play by developing concentration and problem solving skills.

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Are you looking for a fun and highly engaging game for your Spanish students? Play Thanksgiving bingo! All you need is one bingo sheet per student and items to mark their board (such as pieces of paper or beans). You call out terms from the Call List included with the game and your students race to be the first to get a bingo. The Call List includes all terms from the bingo boards in Spanish.

This special Thanksgiving-themed Bingo game includes:

• 28 terms for describing Thanksgiving traditions and activities
• 40 different game boards with Spanish terms only (both color and black-and-white versions are included for a total of 80 boards)
• 40 different game boards with pictures only (color version only is included with two boards per page for a total of 40 boards on 20 total pages)
• a Call List
• Teacher Tips
• Table of Contents

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These NO PREP writing prompts for are perfect for November or the week before Thanksgiving! Use these for independent writing time, creative and story journal writing, writer's workshop, writing centers, small group instruction, homework, and morning work. This set includes 6 different prompts that you can share either as a task card/writing prompt card or on lined paper.

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Challenge your students during the Autumn season with this engaging team-building icebreaker activity! Students will use this digital resource to decipher some of the most commonly spoken fall, Halloween, and Thanksgiving-themed phrases shown in a series of picture characters. Some emojis can be combined without the use of words to create a new word or phrase! For example, a pumpkin emoji that is combined with a pie emoji translates to "pumpkin pie."

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Directions:

• Name the Emoji Phrase is a very loosely structured game so setup will be determined by how you want to play.
• Consider splitting the class into teams and providing a buzzer OR creating 2 lines and having the first 2 players of each line compete against each other.
• The team that guesses the phrase first gets the point.
• The team that has the most points at the end of all the slides is the winner.

What's Included:

30 Emoji picture guessing slides

30 Answer slides (one behind each guessing slide)

Editable templates

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Engage your students with this exciting Thanksgiving themed scavenger hunt designed specifically for mastering writing one-variable equations given a verbal situation! With 10 interactive stations, this kinesthetic activity will get your students moving and thinking critically.

How It Works:

• Start with a Student Sheet: Each student receives a scavenger hunt sheet to track their progress. Students may select where to begin, or you may assign them to a particular station.
• Solve and Record: At each station, students solve the challenge problem at the bottom of the poster, record their answer on the student recording sheet, and find their next destination based on their answer.
• Explore and Discover: Once students find their answer, they are going to “sprint” (or walk calmly ☺) to the poster with their answer at the top of it.
• Collaborate and Compete: As they sprint (or walk calmly) to new stations, they can work cooperatively while reinforcing key concepts.

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Thanksgiving Word Search

This is a one page printable word search puzzle with a Thanksgiving theme. There are ten words to find: autumn, gravy, feast, family, leftovers, pumpkin, Mayflower, wishbone, squash, recipe. Answer key is included.

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Celebrate this Thanksgiving by having your students show their gratitude for another student, a family member or another teacher. Perfect for short and meaningful hand-written writing assignments that are also touching for the recipient. Choose from 2 design options which each print 2 per page. This is a simple and easy way for students to express their gratitude this Thanksgiving.

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• To defend thoughts and opinions
• For a fun activity!!!

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Dive into the vibrant world of Pop Harvest with our Fall Thanksgiving Coloring Pages! This collection celebrates the season by blending traditional Thanksgiving elements with the bold and playful style of pop art. From pumpkins to turkeys, each page is a canvas waiting for your creativity. Add a burst of color to your Thanksgiving festivities with this engaging coloring adventure! Let your imagination soar as you explore the fusion of classic autumn scenes and dynamic pop art energy. It’s a feast for your eyes and a fun way to express gratitude in a uniquely colorful way!

Looking for a fun and low-prep activity to celebrate Thanksgiving / L’action de grâce with your beginner-level French students? This product is a bundle of word search and crossword activities that contain 32 related holiday-themed vocabulary - both come in color & BW!

This product includes:

- 1 word search activity (colored)

- 1 crossword activity (colored)

- 1 word search activity (black&white)

- 1 crossword activity (black&white)

- Answer Key

Vocabulary list:

1. blé

2. pèlerin

3. cabine

4. dinde

5. dindon

6. famille

7. automne

8. citrouille

9. pain

10. purée

11. festin

12. patate douce

13. table

14. chocolat chaud

15. soupe

16. football

17. repas

18. partager

19. célébrer

20. canneberges

21. carottes

22. igname

23. farce

24. congé

25. légumes

26. Dieu

27. haricots verts

28. orange

29. sauce

30. gourde

31. merci

32. tradition

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Thanksgiving Retro & Preppy | Groovy Early Finishers Coloring Page for SEL Freebie: Explore a fun and creative Thanksgiving activity with this retro Thanksgiving coloring page! Perfect for classrooms and home use, this printable page is perfect for early finishers, indoor recess, Thanksgiving parties, writing prompts, and more!

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Enhance your students' narrative and creative writing skills with this engaging Thanksgiving comic strip writing worksheets. Perfect for practicing dialogue writing, this activity pack features four unique writing prompts centered around the themes of thankfulness and appreciation. The templates include designated columns for illustrations and carefully crafted speech bubbles, making it easy for students to express their gratitude in a fun and interactive way. This resource also comes with a lesson plan for one of the templates, helping you seamlessly incorporate these Thanksgiving comic strips into your classroom curriculum. Additionally, a blank comic strip template is included, allowing students the creative freedom to craft their own storylines.

Prompts Included:

• Thankful Tales
• Moments of Thanks
• Joyful Appreciations
• A Thankful Journey

Perfect for Thanksgiving, this comic strip activity is an ideal way to combine creativity with the spirit of gratitude in your classroom!

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This resource features an engaging, Thanksgiving-themed worksheet to help students practice identifying figurative language. This can be given at the start of class, end of class, for homework, as part of an emergency substitute plan, or in a stations activity. Kids can never get enough practice with figurative language and this is the perfect worksheet to work on this food, family, and fun-filled holiday! (Did you catch the alliteration!?)

Terms Used:

- Metaphor

- Simile

- Oxymoron

- Hyperbole

- Onomatopoeia

- Allusion

- Personification

- Alliteration

- Idiom

Included in this product is both a color and black and white version.

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