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Thanksgiving Math with Foam Turkeys

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I’m so excited to share a simple Thanksgiving math activity the preschoolers and I did recently! It was inspired by my blogging bud Asia from Fun at Home with Kids and her new book.

Glittery foam turkeys ready for some Thanksgiving math

Related: Thanksgiving Activities for Preschoolers

Full disclosure – I received a free copy of the book in exchange for sharing it with you. All opinions are, as always, my own! Affiliate links included below for your convenience.

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  • easy Thanksgiving math activity for kids
  • the new Fun at Home with Kids book
  • Done-for-You Preschool Resources

easy Thanksgiving math activity for kids

In Asia’s book, 150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids, she shares easy-to-create “sticky window art” with foam sheets. I’ve used foam sheets every year since I started teaching, and I LOVE the trick to get them to stick to windows! When I read Asia’s book, I knew I wanted to create my own little spin on her window art idea. Thus, the Thanksgiving math activity using glittery foam turkeys!

Preschoolers enamored with a simple Thanksgiving math activity

Related: Turkey Activities

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I happened upon the foam turkeys in my staff workroom, and I’m not sure where we got them from. The closest I could find were these basic foam turkeys. If I figure out where we got our glitter-fied turkeys, I’ll be sure to share!

I grabbed five of the turkeys, then I cut out numbers from some orange foam sheets. I just free-handed the numbers one through five, but they turned out fine. The turkeys and the numbers were placed up on a window in our messy room, and I let the kids at it.

Thanksgiving math with foam turkeys and foam numbers

Related: Fall Math Activities for Preschoolers

They explored the foam shapes, pulling them off the window and then re-positioning them. There was turkey counting, silly stories about what the turkeys were up to, and lots of exclamations over their glitter! Some of the children placed the numbers on the turkeys and put them in order. Others took the foam numbers and created larger numbers with them. A few of the kiddos and I had a great conversation about this – how rearranging the numbers made a completely different numbers.

Thanksgiving math with window clings

This activity lasted about an hour, and the children made me promise we’d do it “again and again and again” before Thanksgiving break. Something tells me we’ll be exploring lots of new ways to use “sticky window art” for learning! I even had another preschool teacher pop in and say, “I love that! I’m doing it next week!”

Super easy set up + lots of learning = awesome preschool activity!

the new Fun at Home with Kids book

150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids has tons of ideas for kids of all ages. I’m pretty happy with that fact, since I teach 4- and 5-year olds, and I have a 7-year old at home. Asia includes ideas for modifying the activities, includes dye-free and gluten-free play recipes, and uses affordable materials. I would have bought it if I wasn’t given a free copy!

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My son and I plan on using the Colored Salt Dough recipe to create Christmas decorations next month, and he really wants to try the fizzy colored slush from the book! For preschool, I’m excited to try out the frog world and the glow-in-the-dark insect world. I know my students will go wild for both of those activities!

Done-for-You Preschool Resources

Planning meaningful lessons for students week after week, all while balancing other teaching responsibilities and a personal life, can be a daunting task. That’s where Preschool Teacher 101 comes in to save you time!

Preschool Teacher 101 is excited to share with you some amazing lesson plans, activity packs, and much more! We offer a wide variety of themes that are frequently used in preschool classrooms, as well as some less common (but super interesting) themes. Click on the images below to learn more about some of our turkey-themed resources.

Ten little turkeys song pack and book set for preschool and kindergarten cover image.
10 Little Turkeys Song Pack & Book Set
Cover of turkey math number sense activities.
Turkey Number Sense

Cover of turkey feather roll and color math games.
Turkey Roll and Color Games

Join The Pack from Preschool Teacher 101 today for exclusive access to our amazing products. And we even have three different membership options to suit your needs!

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