This fun turkey activity for kids combines some themed turkey science with a simple and FUN turkey activities for kindergarten, preschool, pre-k, toddler, and first graders too. You will love how easy this november activities is. Add this quick thanksgiving science to your plans!
Turkey Science
I love quick and easy science activities like this November themed skittles experiment! In just a couple minutes you will create a cool turkey project by dissolving the food coloring in the candy coating. This turkey activites for preschoolers, toddlers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students is sure to be a hit at home or in the classroom.
Turkey Activities
All you need to try this quick and easy thanksgiving science project are a few simple materials:
- plate with rim
- hot water
- skittles
- google eyes
- craft foam (orange and red)
- scissors
Turkey Activity for Kids
This science experiment is really simple, which is perfect for this busy mama! Start by making a turkey out of skittles on a paper pate or dish with a lip. Their are SO many options for how your turkey will look. We kept it simple and made a circle out of purple skittles for the turkey body. Then we made different size turkey feathers out of yellow, red, orange, and green skittles around the sides and top of that body. Finally we added googly eyes and cut craft foam to make a triangular orange beak and red wattle.
Cute, right?!
November Activities
Now carefully pour hot water around the edge of the plate. Almost immediately you will see the colored candy coating start to dissolve in the warm water and begin spreading. It will in essence color in the turkey you made.
My kids thought it was hilarious that the turkey face change to look silly!
Turkey Activities for Toddlers
You can leave the turkey face looking silly or carefully move the features back now that the initial movement of the water has happened.
The turkey is getting more and more colorful as the colors dissolve.
Thanksgiving Science
The colors have almost completely dissolved at this point making a super cute turkey! I love how simple and pretty this November science project is to try with young kids!
November Activities for Preschoolers
So besides being a fun turkey activity, this is actually a simple science project for November. Kids will be able to visually see how things dissolve.
You can extend the learning by:
- BEFORE you do this project have them put sugar in water and ask them what is happening (they can no longer see the sugar after stirring). The sugar dissolves
- Does every thing dissolve? Have them try some other substances like salt, oil, etc. Young kids learn best by trial and error and DOING!
- Try the skittle turkey with 2 plates. For one use hot water and for the other plate use cold water. Was their any difference?
Thanksgiving Activities
This is such a fun playful way to introduce young children to the FUN science can be with simple cause and effect they can SEE! The extension ideas help you take it further for kids that are already asking questions and thinking critically. You can even add in some scientific terms like what is your hypothesis of what will happen. What are the results. Science should be repeatable, try it again; did you get the same results?
But if your child is content with the WOW, that was cool turkey activity – that’s OK too! THey are learning to enjoy experiment and trying new things.
Thanksgiving Crafts
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- CUTE Thanksgiving Construction Paper Turkey Craft
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- Simple Construction Paper Turkey Craft for November
Thanksgiving Crafts for Preschoolers
- These adorable Turkey Hat Template are fun to make and wear in November
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Turkey Science
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- Turkey Magic Milk Novemer Science Experiment
- Turkey Life Cycle Worksheets
Thanksgiving Language Arts
- This fun-to-color Thanksgiving story for kindergarten pdf will help kids learn about the First Thanksgiving.
- Kids will have fun practicing sight words with these super cute, NO PREP, Thanksgiving Color by Sight Word
- Sight Word Pumpkin Activities for Kindergarten is a fun way for kids to practice reading Looking for another fun word family activity?
- Working on Word Families with Turkey Word Family Sort Thanksgiving Activities for Kindergarten or our Pumpkin Pie Word Family Puzzles
- Kids will have fun practicing spelling with this Free Thanksgiving Create-a-Word Activity
- Keep kids practicing writing skills with these no prep,Thanksgiving Creative Writing Prompts
- Super cute Turkey Sight Word Mats
- Free Thanksgiving Writing Prompts or this Thanksgiving Writing Prompt
- Create-a-Word Thanksgiving Spelling Activity
- Listen for beginning sounds as you complete these adorable, Free Printable Build-a Turkey Activities
- Pumpkin Pie Phonics is a fun Thanksgiving Activities for Kidnergarten to practice identifying the sounds letters make
- Help kids work on letter recognition with these Thanksgiving Color by Letter where they will reveal fun hidden pictures!
- Practice tracing upper and lower case letters while working on beginning sounds with these Pumpkin Activities.
- ABC Turkey File Folder Game
- Kids will have fun working on letter recognition with these Letter Find Free Pumpkin Printables
Thanksgiving Math
- Or work on addition with these fun, Color by Addition Thanksgiving Worksheets
- Kids will have fun working on Number Sense with these adorable Pumpkin Math puzzles
- Work on number recognitoin with these Thanksgiving Color by Number Worksheets
- Kids will have fun practicing counting with this Thanksgiving Math Pumpkin Pie Count & Trace Activity
- Make a Pumpkin Pie Craft to practice counting
- Pumpkin Pie Count & Trace Thanskgiving math activity is a great way to practice counting and writing numbers too
- Kids will have fun using marshmallows or cotton balls in this 1:1 Pumpkin Pie Correspondence Thanksgiving Math activity
- Pumpkin Number Bonds to 10 Worksheets are a fun, NO PREP way to practice math in October
- Free Printable Thanksgiving Counting Puzzles
- Thanksgiving I Spy Printable Worksheet
- Kids will have fun working on subtraction with these free Turkey Subtraction Worksheets
- This adorable Turkey Math Craft is a fun hands-on thanksgiving math activities for preschoolers
- Work on more advanced math with these Free Multiplication Pumpkin Puzzles
- Kids will love this cute feathers counting Turkey Activty for Preschoolers
- Adorable Turkey Color Matching Craft (printable)
- Who says younger kids have to get all the hands on learning fun? These Free Order of Operation Pumpkin Puzzles are perfect for older elementary age students!
- These Spin and Cover Turkey Activities are a fun way to sneak in some math in November
- Practice Counting by 10s with this cute Turkey Skip Counting Activity
November Math
- Work on counting to 100 with these FREE Thanksgiving Worksheets
- These cut-and-paste worksheets are a Thanksgiving Math Worksheets
- Help kids work on number sense with these adorable Pumpkin Pie Number Sense Puzzles
- This Pumpkin Patch Addition Game is a fun way to practice addition in October (color or black & white)
- Kids can solve the math problems in this Pumpkin Math Activity over and over again to achieve fluency!
- My kids love activities that involve food! Thesecandy corn Turkey Counting and tracing number mats are loads of fun!
- Turkey Colour Matching Game with dot markers
- Finally, don’t miss over 30 Fun November Kids Activities and November Crafts for Kids.
- Well, there you go! I hope you enjoy all these fun, clever, and FREE ideas to fill you November with fun learning and kids activities
- Plan a whole Thanksgiving Theme with all these fun, creative resources from around the web!
- Looking for help sneaking fun into your month? Print out our FREE Thanksgiving Activity Calendar
- Plus, don’t miss these 22 Thanksgiving Books or these Thanksgiving Books for Preschoolers you will love reading with your kids!
- 50+ Turkey Crafts for Kids
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- Oh so Yummy Chocolate Pumpkin Bread
- Easy-to-Make, healthy Pumpkin Pie Chili will be your families new favorite meal!
- Super easy to make Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal to whip up in the crock pot
- 40 Pumpkin Pie Recipes for Kids
- Here is your new favorite dessert for October – Pumpkin Lava Cakes!
- Super delicious Pumpkin Waffles that have no added sugar, but are perfectly sweet!
- BEST EVER Pumpkin Pie Recipe
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