Thanksgiving is a popular celebration that brings together family and friends in America.

It reminds all involved of the struggles that Americans went through in the past. As the adults engage in various activities that obviously cut out the children, they may get bored and feel sidelined. To avoid such an occurrence, here are some thanksgiving activities for kids that keep them entertained throughout the celebrations. One such activity is creating and decorating a thanksgiving tree. This will keep them busy and make them part of the partying as well as they will feel useful.

Getting them to practice and present thanksgiving songs and poems is a great thanksgiving activity for kids. They will have fun doing popular rhymes like the five little turkeys, the pumpkin poem 1, thanksgiving traditional poem, the funny turkey, and the pumpkin poem 2. They will also enjoy the acrostic poem for turkey as well as the turkey dinner song. Other favorite thanksgiving songs include the first thanksgiving, Mr. Turkey, over the river and through the wood, as well as turkey in the straw. They can also practice various pumpkin songs using common tunes known to them.

Another worthwhile thanksgiving activity for kids is the thanksgiving crafts.

Children love color and the best way to ensure that they enjoy this thanksgiving to the fullest is to provide them with painting materials. With these, they can make thanksgiving invitation cards, paint turkeys and draw pumpkins. They can also use colored letters to write the thanksgiving poems and songs they are familiar with. They can also create a scrabble board as well as the letters and have fun as they rearrange them to form words relating to the thanksgiving celebrations.

Online games are a sure way to keep them entertained when thinking of thanksgiving activities for kids.

Some of the popular online games include the thanksgiving feast whereby the children bounce against a wall. This ball hits the cornucopia allowing them to pick the foods associated with the thanksgiving feast. Another game that will keep them on their toes is the Turkey Filbriks that involves matching objects. The Thanksgiving coloring fun is another favorite online game that involves coloring various pictures associated with thanksgiving. These include thanksgiving trees, turkeys, and pumpkins. Thanksgiving puzzles are in their plenty online some of them including those that require the children to spot the differences between various objects.

Humor is a favorite for all regardless of age or gender.

That is why it is among the thanksgiving activities for kids. The internet is a great source for thanksgiving jokes for children that will sure keep them in high spirits throughout the celebrations. These jokes revolve around the key issues concerning thanksgiving. You can print a list of them from the internet and let the children read them out loudly in turns. They will have so much fun that you will join them and laugh as well. Examples of jokes you can incorporate include:

‘What happened when the turkey got into a fight?’
He got the stuffing knocked out of him!’

‘What did the Turkey say before it was roasted?’
‘Boy, I’m stuffed!’