50+ Easy Thanksgiving Activities for Toddlers

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Updated October 2025.

50+ Thanksgiving activities for toddlers, preschoolers and kids. Thanksgiving activity planning made easy! Here you will find fun and easy ideas for your kids to do during Thanksgiving that are simple and creative! Firstly, you’ll find completely doable ideas that will get your kids into the Thanksgiving spirit! Secondly, you’ll find creative ways to learn and play with all things turkey!

Thanksgiving for Kids

When you think ‘Thanksgiving Dinner’, isn’t the first image that comes to mind a large juice roasted turkey? One displayed on a beautiful harvest decorated table surrounded by stuffing, veggies and potatoes done several different ways! All the fixings make Thanksgiving dinner a special among all the holidays. But it’s the turkey that is the real superstar!

Preparing that wonderful dinner takes time and effort! Consequently, little ones are left out of the prep work while mom and dad are busy in the kitchen. But I have a solution! Here are 50+ fun and easy activities you can do with them or set up for them while you prep! For instance, Thanksgiving Dinner Sensory Bin – one of my favorites to set up this time of year

Moreover these activities use items you already have at home. Therefore no need to run out and purchase a whole bunch of supplies! For example, if you save toilet paper rolls you will definitely use those here.

This fantastic resource is even better than Pinterest or Instagram! Why? The reason is simple. Here you have all the Thanksgiving ideas you will need this season in one place.

Find tons of wonderful, creative and easy ideas, in addition, your toddler or preschooler will also learn something and practice key learning skills. Above all, they will actually love and enjoy all these activities.

I organized this list of Thanksgiving activities into a few different sections to help you find the type of activities you want to try faster:

Boredom Busting Thanksgiving Activities
Easy Learning Thanksgiving Activities
Fine Motor Thanksgiving Activities
Sensory Thanksgiving Activities
Gratitude Activities for Thanksgiving

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20+ Fun & Easy Thanksgiving Crafts

Thanksgiving Activities

Thanksgiving Crafts

Thanksgiving Gratitude Activities

Thanksgiving Sensory Activities

Thanksgiving Learning Activities

Thanksgiving Fine Motor Activities

Play2Learn Toddler & Preschool Programs for Curious Toddlers

There is no limit to your toddler’s energy and curiosity. That energy and curiosity although a joy can be challenging at times. Their interest in just about everything around them is what makes them great learners. One and two year olds can soak up so much just from their senses!

But as a teacher or parent that thirst for learning can be exhausting. That is why I created this toddler and preschooler program. To help you get the most out of this time with your curious toddler without having to come up with creative ways to play and interact with them.

Play2Learn for Toddlers includes 20 Units for toddlers. Each 2-week toddler unit has 20 super easy to set up and engaging activities for toddlers 18 months to 3 years.

Play2Learn Preschool which includes 20 Units for preschoolers. Each 2-week preschoolers unit has 20 unique and easy to set up and engaging activities for preschoolers 3 years to 5 years. That’s over 800 learning activities for your toddler and preschooler at your fingertips! So many ideas you and your child will never be bored again!

These toddler and preschool lesson plans and activities will definitely keep you and your toddler and preschooler busy playing and learning!

Click here for more information: Play2Learn

Book: Exciting Sensory Bins for Curious Kids

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Did you know I wrote a book of sensory bins? Click here for more information Exciting Sensory Bin for Curious Kids. Or grab your copy at Amazon.

Boring afternoons are made exciting with awesome animal-based bins, like Salty Shark Bay or Yarn Farm. Pretend play bins like Birthday Cake Sensory Play or Bubble Tea Party encourage creativity and imagination. And your kids will have so much fun they won’t even know they’re getting smarter with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities like Sink or Float Soup, Magnetic Letter Hunt or Ice Cream Scoop and Count.

Designed for toddlers 18 months and up.

Book: Super STEAM Activity Book for Kids

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Learning all about science, technology, engineering, art, and math sets kids up for scholastic success―and it can be so much fun! Watch kids enjoy building STEAM skills as they color friendly fish, help water find its way to tree roots, solve math problems with mazes, and more.

Find out more and grab your copy here.

Designed for preschoolers 3 years old and up.

Book: Big Book of Riddles for Kids

Riddle me this: What’s an exciting way to practice critical thinking while having a blast? The Big Riddle Book for Kids, of course! From hilarious puns to tough brain teasers, kids can build problem-solving skills with hundreds of riddles tha. t show them how to think outside the box.

350 riddles for kids—Have hours of fun with riddles, puns and jokes, and math and logic puzzles that’ll get their wheels turning!
Level up their skills—Riddles get trickier as kids progress through the book, challenging them as they get better at solving puzzles!
Double-check their work—Kids can check their answers in the back of the book with a handy answer key.

Help children expand their minds while having fun with this puzzle book for kids!

Designed for kids ages 6 years old and up.

TV Show: Curious Crafting

I’m so excited to share my crafting TV show Curious Crafting which launched in July 2022 on TVOkids and TVOkids YouTube! Season 2 aired in August 2023! My show was also nominated in 2023 for Best Live Action Preschool Series by the Youth Media Alliance Awards of Excellence.

Curious Crafting Season 1 is also now airing in Australia on ABC! Watch it here!

Set in the ultimate crafting space, Curious Crafting is a short form pre-school age series about the joy of making crafts. I lead a rotating cast of adorable little preschoolers (including my own) making magic out of common household objects.

In each episode we transform recycled items into magical crafts like a milk carton school bus, paper bag puppet or cotton pad turtle. The crafters learn and laugh their way through each activity while demonstrating what their young imaginations can create.

Curious Crafting shares the adventure and joy of making art with takeaway lessons for creating crafts at home.

This show designed for toddlers and preschoolers 2.5 years old and up.