Thanksgiving preschool math and literacy centers that celebrate the season of gratitude! This Thanksgiving Math & Literacy Pack is stuffed with over 25 hands-on, colorful and low-prep activities so your preschool and pre-K learners can gobble up essential skills through play.

Whether you're in a classroom, homeschooling or working with special education or ELL students, these activities make skill-building festive, fun and developmentally appropriate all November long. Number mats with ten-frames, counting clip cards, graphing dice games, turkey alphabet matching and Thanksgiving BINGO keep practice playful. A ten-frame is a simple grid of ten boxes that helps children see and count numbers.

With this Thanksgiving math and literacy pack, you get

• Over 25 Thanksgiving math and literacy activities
• Counting and number practice to 20 with ten-frames and arrays
• Sorting, graphing, shape and AB pattern activities
• Alphabet tracing, letter matching, rhyming and Thanksgiving vocabulary
• Line tracing cards for pre-writing and fine motor practice

Print, laminate and your Thanksgiving centers are ready to go.

What's Included

• Over 25 Thanksgiving-themed math and literacy activities
• Math activities:
  • 2 Sets of Thanksgiving Number Mats (1-20): Practice numbers with both empty and filled ten-frames using mini erasers, dry erase markers or pom-poms (whipped cream on pie, anyone?).
  • Thanksgiving Counting Clip Cards (Arrays, Ten-Frames): Great for fine motor and number recognition. An array shows a number as objects lined up in rows.
  • Line-Up Number Puzzles (to 5 and 10): Build number sequencing and problem solving with Thanksgiving scenes.
  • 2-Piece Number Puzzles (Arrays & Ten-Frames): Reinforce quantities and number matching with simple two-piece puzzles.
  • Roll, Write & Count Mats: Use dice and manipulatives to practice number formation and showing quantities.
  • Graphing Dice Games (2 themes): Practice collecting and looking at data with Thanksgiving dinner favorites.
  • Spin & Cover Mats (Numbers, Shapes, Pictures): Fun for centers or partner games.
  • Shape Sorting and Clip Cards: Strengthen shape recognition and visual discrimination with turkey-themed cards.
  • AB Patterning Activities (3 levels): Copy, continue or create patterns with pies, turkeys and more.
  • Tic-Tac-Toe Games: A Thanksgiving-themed game board for strategic play and turn-taking.
  • Missing Number Cards: Fill in the blank with the correct number to strengthen sequencing and number knowledge.
• Literacy activities:
  • Thanksgiving Alphabet Tracing Cards (Uppercase + Lowercase): Use in a salt tray or with dry erase markers.
  • Turkey Alphabet Matching Cards: Build letter recognition and uppercase/lowercase matching.
  • Write the Room Activities (Trace, Write & Draw): Get students moving and writing with Thanksgiving vocabulary like pie, gravy and turkey.
  • Picture, Number & Rhyme Matching Games: Develop vocabulary, comprehension and number-word associations.
  • Visual Discrimination Clip Cards: Identify the smallest, largest or different pictures using fine motor tools like clothespins.
  • Food Sorting Mats (Healthy vs. Junk Food): Support sorting, categorizing and nutrition conversations in a playful way.
  • Thanksgiving BINGO (Class Set): Whole-group fun with seasonal images, perfect for a November party.
  • Thanksgiving-Themed Line Tracing Cards: Support pre-writing with silly seasonal paths and squiggles.

Why Teachers Love It

• November is covered: With over 25 activities, you have fresh centers ready for weeks of Thanksgiving learning.
• Math and literacy in one pack: Counting, graphing, shapes and patterns sit right alongside letters, rhyming and vocabulary.
• Hands-on from start to finish: Children use mini erasers, pom-poms, dice, clothespins and dry erase markers as they learn.
• Kids get moving: Write the Room has children hunting for Thanksgiving words like pie, gravy and turkey around the classroom.
• Low prep: Print on card stock, laminate once and reuse the centers year after year.
• Easy to scaffold: Visuals, repetition and hands-on materials help ELL learners and children who need extra support join right in.

Skills Students Practice

Primary Academic Skills

• Counting and number recognition: Children count and recognize numbers 1-20 with number mats, clip cards and puzzles.
• Number order: Line-up puzzles and missing number cards build number sequencing.
• Sorting and graphing: Children sort shapes and foods and collect data with the graphing dice games.
• Patterns: Three levels of AB pattern activities help children copy, continue and create patterns.
• Shape recognition: Turkey shape sorting and clip cards build 2D shape knowledge.
• Alphabet knowledge: Children trace letters and match uppercase and lowercase turkey cards.
• Phonemic awareness: Rhyme matching games help children hear the sounds in words.
• Visual discrimination: Clip cards ask children to find the smallest, largest or different picture.
• Fine motor and pre-writing: Line tracing cards, alphabet tracing cards and clip cards build hand strength and control.
• Thanksgiving vocabulary: Children trace, write, draw and talk about seasonal words.

Secondary Life & Learning Skills

• Taking turns
• Waiting during group play
• Following directions
• Listening to classmates
• Using mathematical language
• Working independently

How to Use It

Step 1: Choose the centers you want for the week. Print them on card stock and laminate them for reuse year after year.

Step 2: Introduce each activity in a small group. Add dry erase markers or crayons, themed mini erasers, clothespins and dice, then move the activity into your math or literacy centers.

Step 3: Store games in zipper bags, photo boxes or file folders for grab-and-go organization. Rotate in new centers and bring out Thanksgiving BINGO for a whole-group game.

Materials You'll Need

• Card stock
• Laminating pouches and a laminator
• Dry erase markers or crayons
• Mini erasers or pom-poms
• Clothespins
• Dice
• Zipper bags, photo boxes or file folders for storage

Easy Differentiation

Preschoolers come to Thanksgiving centers with a wide range of skills. These activities are easy to adjust for each child.

For Children Who Need More Support

• Start with the line-up puzzles to 5 and the filled ten-frame number mats
• Count together while touching each mini eraser on the ten-frame
• Begin with the first level of the AB patterning activities
• Use fewer letter pairs in the turkey alphabet matching cards

For On-Level Practice

• Work through the number mats and counting clip cards to 20
• Copy and continue AB patterns at the middle level
• Play the graphing dice games and Spin & Cover mats with a partner
• Match all of the uppercase and lowercase letter pairs

For an Extra Challenge

• Create new AB patterns at the top level
• Use the empty ten-frame mats and write each number without a model
• Tell which food on the graph has more and which has fewer
• Write Thanksgiving words during Write the Room and draw a picture for each one

For Speech, OT, ELL or Special Education Support

• Name each Thanksgiving picture together to build vocabulary
• Practice rhyming pairs with the rhyme matching game
• Use the tracing cards, salt tray and clip cards for fine motor work
• Repeat favorite activities often for extra practice
• Give extra processing time and offer one center at a time

Perfect For

• Preschool and pre-K classrooms
• Thanksgiving centers
• Small groups
• Early intervention and RTI groups
• Special education classrooms
• ELL support
• Homeschool
• Early finishers
• Whole-group BINGO and November parties

Standards

These Thanksgiving centers support the 2022 Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines and Virginia's Early Learning and Development Standards (2021), and they build toward kindergarten skills in Common Core, the TEKS and the Virginia SOL (Math 2023, English 2024):

Common Core State Standards

• CCSS K.CC.A.3: Write numbers 0-20 and represent a number of objects with a written numeral on the roll, write and count mats.
• CCSS K.CC.B.4.a: Say number names in order while pairing each object with one number.
• CCSS K.MD.B.3: Classify objects into categories and count how many are in each, as in the sorting and graphing activities.
• CCSS K.G.A.2: Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientation or size.
• CCSS RF.K.1.d: Recognize and name uppercase and lowercase letters.
• CCSS RF.K.2.a: Recognize and produce rhyming words.

Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines

• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.A.2: Count up to 10 objects, touching one object for each number, while filling ten-frames and number mats.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.A.5: Recognize numerals 0-10 on number puzzles, line-up puzzles and missing number cards.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.C.1: Name and describe common 2D shapes with the turkey shape sorting and clip cards.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.E.1: Sort objects that are the same and different, such as healthy and junk foods.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.E.2: Collect data and organize it in a graph with the graphing dice games.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.E.3: Recognize, copy, extend and create patterns with the AB patterning activities.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.III.B.6: Identify rhyming words while playing the rhyme matching game.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.III.C.1: Recognize and name letters while matching uppercase and lowercase turkey cards.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.IX.B.2: Show growing control in tasks that need eye-hand coordination, such as following line tracing paths.

Texas TEKS

• TEKS Math K.2.B: Read, write and represent whole numbers from 0 to at least 20 with and without objects or pictures.
• TEKS Math K.2.C: Count a set of objects and show that the last number said tells how many.
• TEKS ELAR K.2.A.i: Identify and produce rhyming words.

Virginia Early Learning and Development Standards

• Virginia ELDS CD3.1: Count and recognize quantities with number mats, clip cards and line-up puzzles.
• Virginia ELDS CD3.4: Sort, classify and pattern with Thanksgiving sorting and pattern activities.
• Virginia ELDS CLLD2.3: Notice that spoken words are made of smaller sounds, including rhyming parts.
• Virginia ELDS CLLD2.4: Learn how letters work by tracing and matching uppercase and lowercase letters.

Virginia SOL

• VA SOL Math K.NS.2.a: Read, write and identify numerals on the number mats and clip cards.
• VA SOL Math K.PS.1.a: Sort and classify objects by one attribute, such as shape.
• VA SOL Math K.PFA.1.b: Extend a repeating pattern by adding at least two more repetitions of the core.
• VA SOL English K.FFR.3.A: Identify capital and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

Add the Thanksgiving Theme Preschool/Pre-K Math & Literacy Centers to your cart and have over 25 November centers ready to go. Print, laminate and watch your preschoolers count, graph, rhyme and match letters all season long!

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