As soon as the spooky Halloween and Day or the Dead holidays pass, homes and businesses bring out the turkeys and reindeer. The nights get longer, but brighten with colorful lights and warm fires. People start thinking about thankfulness and gift giving.
Help kids get into the spirit of thankfulness and giving with fun printable crafts, coloring pages, and activity sheets.
Thanksgiving and Gratitude
Thanksgiving Day is a tradition celebrated annually on the fourth Thursday in November. Your children may enjoy learning about Thanksgiving history and traditional activities. The tradition traces its origins to a harvest feast and celebration of thanksgiving held by the pilgrim settlers of the Plymouth Plantation in 1621. They survived their first season with help from Squanto, a Wampanoag Indian who taught them to catch eel and grow corn, and from Massassoit, the Wampanoag tribal leader who donated food to the colony when their initial stores were insufficient.
