These turkey themed letter and number cards and puzzles are a great Thanksgiving activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters and matching numbers and number words up to 20.

What is Included:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters
• 2 piece number puzzles that match number and number words
• 2 piece number puzzles that match number and objects
• 3 piece number puzzles that match number, number words, and objects

Students will love the hands on activities in this resource. There are a variety of different games and activities that students can complete independently or with a partner.

Ways to Use the Cards:

• Matching Game: Match capital and lowercase letters or numbers to the number words.
• Fishing Game: Attach a paper clip to the card and use a magnetic fishing pole to "catch" the letters or numbers.
• Salt/Sand Tray: Use these cards as a model to show students what to write in the sand.
• Letter or Number Hunts: Have students find the letters or numbers that you have hidden around the room.
• ABC Order or Number Order: Have students place letters or numbers in the correct order.
• Pocket Chart Game: Place the cards into a pocket chart and hide a picture behind one of the cards. Have students guess which card the hidden picture is behind.

With a wide variety of uses, these cards will allow students to be engaged with learning their letters and numbers, as well as learning number words and practice counting.

How to Use the Puzzles

• Task Box Activities
• Math Centers
• Morning Baskets or Tubs

All of the cards and puzzles in this resource can be stored in task boxes. This allows teachers to have an easy to set up activity that students can easily clean and put away themselves.

Skills Assessed:

• Number Recognition
• Number Words to 20
• Number Order
• Letter Recognition
• Matching Capital and Lowercase Letters
• Letter Order

Each part of this resource is low prep. They all just need to be printed out and cut apart before use. The teacher may choose to laminate the pieces for durability.

Help each turkey get its pumpkin pie by tracing the path from the turkey to the pie on these tracing cards with a Thanksgiving theme. There are two sets of tracing line with 44 cards each (for a total of 88 cards) with a variety of tracing lines including curves, loops, zig zags and more!

These tracing cards give students practice with handwriting by having them trace a variety of lines. They help guide students to follow the line from left to right to mimic how students will eventually learn to write words and sentences and these lines allow students to practice pen control.

There are two sets of cards in this product:

• The first set has a decorative boarder where you can print on white paper.
• The second set has no border so you can print on colored paper and save on ink!

Ways to Use

• Writing Center
• Fine Motor Center
• Write and Wipe Activity
• Morning Tub or Basket

These fine motor cards and perfect for a writing center. By laminating each card or placing the full pages in page protectors you can create a write and wipe activity and use them over and over.

You can turn these cards into a fine motor center by adding mini erasers or other small objects for students to place along the line. Add tongs for more fine motor fun! You can also use cotton swabs and paint to dot the lines.

Skills Targeted:

• Following a line by tracing
• Moving from left to write when writing
• Pen control
• Hand eye coordination
• Building fine motor skills

These tracing cards and the markers or manipulatives used to complete them can be stored in a pencil box for easy set up, clean up and storage.

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This Thanksgiving themed letter and number seek and find activity makes a great hands on literacy or math center for the preschool or kindergarten classroom. Students will have fun tracing letters and finding numbers with these turkey themed letter recognition and number recognition matching mats. Each letter and number mat is available in color and in black and white.

What Is Included

• 1 Capital Letter Mat
• 1 Lowercase Letter Mat
• 1 Capital and Lowercase Letter Mat
• 1 Number 0-5 Mat
• 1 Number 0-10 Mat
• 1 Number 0-20 Mat
• Capital and Lowercase Letter Cards
• Number Cards 0-20

Types of Activities

• Create a hands on literacy or math center by placing the mats and cards in a center.
• Create a write and wipe activity by laminating the mats or placing them in page protectors and providing a dry erase marker.
• Create a sensory bin by adding the letter or number cards inside a sensory bin for students to find.
• Write the Room activity where the teacher hides the cards around the room and students find them to write or trace on their mats.
• Find and Cover activity where students draw a card then use various magnets, mini erasers, or bingo chips to cover the correct letter or number.
• Find and Dot activity where students draw a card then use a bingo marker to dot the correct letter or number.

By having a variety of ways to complete, students will stay engaged as they look for and find each letter or number on the letter mats.

Skills Assessed with these learning mats:

• Letter Recognition with capital and lowercase letters
• Number Recognition from 0-20
• Handwriting Practice for letters and numbers

The mats to this activity are no prep. You simply print and hand out or place in the desired center. The mats can be laminated or placed in page protectors for a reusable activity. The cards are low prep, as they just need to be printed and cut apart. The cards can also be laminated for durability.

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These turkey counting cards for numbers 1-20 are perfect for practicing counting up to 20. They will go great with a Thanksgiving theme. Students practice counting within tens frames and can practice number word recognition for numbers 1-10.

There are two sets of cards that provide two levels of differentiated practice. One set of cards have the number and the tens frames blank so students must correctly count to the number by placing manipulatives in the tens frames. The other set has the tens frames already marked with fire so students who need a little extra guidance can simply over lay their counters to complete the card.

Find a variety of activities to complement any Thanksgiving themed unit. These activities are geared towards the Preschool level and include hands on activities and skill practice pages. Practice letter identification, number identification, patterning, graphing and so much more with this Thanksgiving packet.

What is included:

Pages 2-5: Word Wall Cards

Page 6: Matching or Concentration Game cards: Print the page out twice to create the game.

Pages 7-8: Letter Mazes

Pages 9-10: Number Mazes (1-10 and 1-20)

Pages 11-15: Emergent Reader

Page 16: Roll and Cover Counting Game

Page 17: Build it Up Counting Game

Page 18: Cut and Paste Counting page.

Page 19: Counting with 5 frames.

Page 20: Counting with 10 frames.

Page 21: Simple addition page

Page 22: Graphing Page

Page 23: Pattern Page

Page 24: Fill in the missing number

Page 25: Fill in the missing letter

Page 26: Greater than, less than and equal too practice with pictures.

Pages 27-31 – Tens Frames 1-10 Matching Center

Pages 32-33: Patterns center

Page 34: Clip the egg that does not belong

Page 35: Counting to10 puzzles

Page 36: Sort suns from big to small

Page 37: Letter Matching

Page 38: Number Order

Page 39: Letter Sorting – Capital and Lowercase Letters

Page 40-49: Tracing Practice

Page 50: Syllable Cut and Paste

Pages 51-52: Order by size worksheets

Page 53: Roll and Color game

Pages 54-58: Art Templates and Suggested Activities

Pages 60-63: Thanksgiving Then and Now activity

Page 64: Simple Writing Activity

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Sort colors with this fun turkey center! This center is differentiated with 3 levels of activities. The easiest level is for students to simply match the colored feathers to the color on the turkey's belly. The intermediate level has the color word on the turkey's belly. The color word is colored according to the word. For example, the turkey word red is colored red. This serves as an introduction to color words. The most advanced level has the color word with white print for the students to read and place the right colored feather on the turkey. Simply match the feathers provided or create your own with the blank feather template or cut your own feathers from colored construction paper. Lay the feathers behind the correct turkey or create pockets for the colors to slide into.

Where is the pie? This turkey themed alphabet game for Thanksgiving is great for students who are practicing letter sounds or letter recognition. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for a Preschool, Pre-k or Kindergarten classroom.

Ways to Use

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific letters for struggling students

How to Play

Where's the Pie? is a game for centers or whole group instruction where a pie is hidden behind a turkey. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the letter they think the pie is behind. Once guessed, the letter is removed. If the pie is behind the turkey, then the spider must be hidden again to play further. If the pie is not behind the turkey, then the poem is chanted again and a new letter is guessed. This game has letters in both capital and lowercase forms.

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Practice letter recognition and matching capital and lowercase letters with this turkey themed clip card center activity. Each letter is represented on its own book. Students will clip the letter that matches the letter on the groundhog card!

Activities include matching the capital letter to a matching capital letter, matching a lowercase letter to the matching lowercase letter and matching capital letters with the correct lowercase letters.

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Students will sort the feathers into the correct turkey according to how many syllables are in the word. Students will work with words that have 1, 2, 3, or 4 syllables. This makes a great hands on center for students needed phonological awareness practice in counting syllables.

What is Included:

• Turkey Sorting Mats for 1-4 syllables
• Turkey feather picture cards

These syllable sorting mats make a great hands on literacy center for students to practice counting syllables in words. The bold, easy to recognize pictures allow students to count the syllables of each word independently.

How to Use:

Students will lay out the 4 syllable mats and then sort the feather cards into the correct turkey according to how many syllables are in the word.

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This cute turkey craft is perfect for a Thanksgiving themed craft! It would make the perfect center piece or decoration for a table! No two turkeys will be alike as students work alone or in groups to create a unique turkey! There are two versions of this craft included, one black and white for students to color and decorate on their own and one fully colored version for students to add finishing touches to!