🦃The days before Thanksgiving break are busy and excited. This packet keeps learning going with puzzles that feel like a treat: word searches, picture crosswords and mazes sit next to real addition, subtraction and word work.
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The Thanksgiving Activities Packet is a no-prep set of 34 printable pages for 1st and 2nd grade. It mixes puzzles, math and literacy so the week before Thanksgiving break stays productive while still feeling festive. Turkeys, pies, pumpkins and fall leaves appear throughout, and every page is ready to print the moment you need it.
Word work comes first. Students solve Thanksgiving word searches and picture crosswords, crack secret messages, unscramble words, sort words by syllables, build compound words and put words in ABC order. A thankful writing page and a THANKS acrostic poem give them a chance to write about what matters to them.
The math pages cover addition and subtraction practice, make ten activities, doubles facts, graphing and color-by-code problems, along with secret message math challenges that reward accurate answers. Because the hidden message or picture only works out when the math is right, students get quick feedback on their own work without waiting for the teacher.
Brain-break pages round out the packet: Thanksgiving mazes, dot-to-dot pages, patterns, turkey tic-tac-toe and a step-by-step turkey directed drawing. These pages give busy hands a calm task between lessons and still practice counting, visual tracking and following directions. A Puzzle Pro! award certificate celebrates students who finish.
A ready-to-follow 10-day study plan and a 2-page answer key are included. The packet works for morning work, centers, early finishers, substitute plans, homeschool and indoor recess throughout November.
📖 Teaching guide · 13 min readKeeping 1st and 2nd Graders Learning Before Thanksgiving: A Teacher's Guide to Puzzles That Practice Real SkillsRead the guide →Puzzles hold attention during a week when focus is hard to find, and each one still practices a real skill. The 10-day plan makes it simple to hand the packet to a substitute or spread it across the two weeks before break.
It is written for 1st and 2nd grade, and works as review for 3rd grade and for homeschool learners.
Yes, a 2-page answer key is included.
Addition and subtraction, make ten, doubles facts, graphing and color-by-code practice.
Yes. The 10-day study plan lays out the pages, which makes it easy to leave for a substitute.
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