Free Turkey Hat – Scissor Skills Practice

Free Turkey Hat – Scissor Skills Practice

How cute is this free turkey hat?  Download your free copy at the bottom of the post.  Print it out and it is ready to go!  Children have to practice cutting along straight lines and one curved line.  Glue or tape the strips to the front of the hat.  Size it to fit the child’s head and tape it closed.  Gobble, gobble your turkey hat is all set to go!

This hat is from the complete Thanksgiving Hats digital download. This fun, creative digital download includes the templates for 7 different Thanksgiving hats to encourage children to practice handwriting, coloring, scissor skills, glue use and pretend play!

DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE TURKEY HAT HERE.

Need more Thanksgiving activities?  Check out the Thanksgiving Sensory Motor Packet, Thanksgiving Multisensory Handwriting Activities, My Thanksgiving Handwriting Activities, Thanksgiving Poses, Brain Breaks for Thanksgiving, and Thanksgiving Visual Perceptual Puzzles.

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Turkey Squares Craft Project

After seeing this on Turkey Squares craft on Pinterest, the original blogpost at A Spoonful of Learning and seeing it on Facebook, I decided to make a template for the activity (see below for free download).  You can print out four different versions of the template – black and white turkey, color turkey, you draw the turkey (or add construction paper circles) and a one page template with the squares to color and cut.  A step by step direction page with pictures is also included.

I love this activity because it encourages the children to use squeeze glue and use only ONE dot of squeeze glue.  This is a hard skill for little ones but strengthens the hands, improves graded muscle control and encourage self control (what kid doesn’t want to just squeeze glue everywhere?).

Create this Turkey Square craft project to encourage:

• scissor skills – snip the squares
• graded muscle control – just the right amount of glue
• hand strengthening – squeeze the glue
• fine motor skills – pick up the small pieces of paper and place on glue dot
• math skills – create patterns with the squares
• self regulation skills – only one glue dot!

DOWNLOAD the free TURKEY SQUARE craft project here.

Need more Thanksgiving ideas?  Check out these great downloads!

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My Thanksgiving Handwriting Packet Freebie Pages

Here are two free sample pages from My Thanksgiving Handwriting packet – in regular dotted line font and cursive.

DOWNLOAD the 2 free sample pages from My Thanksgiving Handwriting Packet.

My Thanksgiving Handwriting Packet download includes 5 different font styles of an 8 page Thanksgiving themed handwriting practice booklet. Research indicates that to improve handwriting, practice sessions are necessary (Hoy, 2011). This copy booklet is easy to encourage handwriting practice. The five types of font/layout include: 1. Dotted line Zaner-Bloser® type font, 2. Dotted line Zaner-Bloser® type font with highlighted lines 3. Double line Handwriting Without Tears® type font, 4. New South Wales (NSW) Foundation Manuscript and 5. Cursive font.  FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION.

Need more Thanksgiving activities?  Check out these titles:

1. Thanksgiving Multisensory Handwriting Activities
2. Brain Breaks for Thanksgiving
3. Thanksgiving Poses
4. Thanksgiving Handwriting Activities
5. Thanksgiving Packet

Reference: Hoy, M. M. P., Egan, M. Y., & Feder, K. P. (2011). A systematic review of interventions to improve handwriting. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 78, 13-25. doi: 10.2182/cjot.2011.78.1.3

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Are You “Stuffed”? – Thanksgiving Mini Workout

I don’t know about you, but I know I always eat too much on Thanksgiving (and quite a few of the days leading up to the big feast).  Here is a quick, physical activity workout for the children, classroom, brain break, physical education class, therapy room or anyone who just ate too much on turkey day – Are You Stuffed?  Download ARE YOU STUFFED?

This activity is from the new Thanksgiving Packet.  This 20 page packet includes 15 activities that encourages fine motor, gross motor, visual perceptual and handwriting activities all with a Thanksgiving theme.  Find out more information.

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Thanksgiving Visual Perceptual Freebie

This freebie challenges visual perceptual skills with a Thanksgiving theme. Practice visual motor,
visual discrimination, visual spatial, visual closure and overall visual perceptual skills with these printables.  Print off multiple copies for your students and your activities are ready to go for fine motor centers in the classroom, visual motor skill practice, special education classrooms, early finishers and/or handwriting warm ups.

Download the Thanksgiving freebie here http://yourtherapysource.com/vpthanksfreebie.html

Find out more about the complete download of Thanksgiving Visual Perceptual Activities here http://yourtherapysource.com/vpthanks.html

Thanksgiving Fine and Gross Motor Group Game

If you are looking for a fun, creative Thanksgiving group game to play with your own family or a group of students print out this freebie.  You can download it at http://yourtherapysource.com/freethanksgivingcards.html

How to Play: Print and cut apart the cards. Divide the group into two teams. Provide each team with pencil and paper. Follow the directions for the Thanksgiving challenges on the 7 cards. The
team that wins the most challenges is the overall winner!

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Simple Shape Turkey

After seeing this craft over at Toddler Approved, I figured this would be perfect for little fingers to work on scissor skills, shape identification and simple drawing skills.

We started out by cutting out a circle and some colorful shapes from construction paper.  We glued the shapes into the white circle.



Next, cut out a simple turkey body shape and glue that on top of the turkey "feathers".



This child choose to draw some eyes, a nose and a smile.  You could add a orange triangle and google eyes.



And here you have the finished product -



 

Need some movement to go with that Turkey?  Check out Thanksgiving Brain Breaks.



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Thanksgiving Poses - Postural and Strengthening Exercises

Check out our latest sale ebook just in time for Thanksgiving therapy sessions or some activity ideas to send home over the break -  Thanksgiving Poses.