In this post I will give you my best homeschool mom tips for sanity at the holidays and a free downloadable worksheet booklet to keep your younger kids (approximately ages 3-8) content for a wee bit amidst the excitement.
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Homeschooling at the Holidays
Holidays can be challenging time for homeschooler moms! We want to be able to do all the extra homemaker duties that come around that time. Cooking, hosting, making sure everyone has clothes that look presentable (and outerwear, too, if you are in a place that gets chilly like me!).
I think we Canadians have it a little easier, because with our October Thanksgiving, the holidays are much more spread out. And we have had it easy for weather this year, with an unusually mild autumn.
But around that time in November, things in homeschool land can start to get a little hectic.
I mean, you’ve got pies to make. Turkey to thaw and brine (do you brine your turkey!? It’s the best!). Linens to iron. What’s a homemaker to do?
Super Worksheets!!!
Picture the activity sheets flying from your handy homeschool mom printer with a cape on!
Just kidding.
I know worksheets don’t actually solve problems, but sometimes it is nice to just take a break from normal curricula, turn on a great audiobook or playlist, and get the kitchen prepped for pie-making while the kids are happy doing a fun pencil-in-hand thematically holiday-ish activity booklet.
Maybe, while they are at it, you can take a deep breath and a minute to pray!
I love this little poem for those hectic moments.
Thanksgiving
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything thy goodness sends.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is Included in the Free Thanksgiving Activity Download?
Your Free Thanksgiving Workbook contains 12 pages of fun in PDF format, specifically:
- Title Page
- Contents page
- Color and Count Thanksgiving
- Thankfulness Journaling
- Pumpkin Maze
- Pumpkin Alphabet Colour and Trace
- Turkey Alphabet Colour and Trace
- Truck Counting
- Truck Adding
- Cornucopia Colour and Scripture Tracing
- Thanksgiving Dinner Word Search
- Pumpkin Spice Chai Latte Recipe
Without further ado, here are the pages!
Thanksgiving-Themed Free Printable Homeschool Colouring and Activity Worksheets
Don’t go without checking out the free printable Thanksgiving workbook for kids I have for you!
How to use the Thanksgiving Workbook:
There are many ways you can use this My Thanksgiving Workbook printable:
- Homeschool lesson on Thanksgiving
- Quiet time
- Buying you time to get cooking done
- Put at the kid’s table during a family gathering
- However you want!
Love themed learning?
Check out all my Unit Study Resources here.
Check out my free Fall Leaves Alphabet Trace
Download the free Fall Nature Hunt
How to access the free printable
- Drop your email in the box below.
- Check your inbox and click through to the PDF.
- Save it to your computer or phone.
- Print it off at home or at your local printer.
- For personal use only, thanks! Email me if you’d like added permissions.
- Watermark free version available on my Etsy shop.
Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope you have a abundant and blessed holiday weekend! Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog. I want to know, what are some of your favourite family traditions around this time of year?
We love fall walks, but this year in our new town, we went cranberry picking at Thanksgiving and now my freezer is stocked! I think that will be a new tradition for us.
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What an adorable project! Happy Thanksgiving to you.
Love this! Wonderful work. Thank you.
These are great; thank you so much!