ESL/EFL Preschool Teachers: Thanksgiving and emotions printable resources.

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Teaching emotions during Thanksgiving is a meaningful way to help young English Language Learners develop vocabulary while talking about feelings. This Thanksgiving Emotions Unit combines holiday-themed worksheets, games, crafts, flashcards, and hands-on activities that make learning fun and engaging for preschool and kindergarten students. Students practice emotions such as happy, sad, angry, and scared while developing speaking, listening, fine motor, and social-emotional skills.

Thanksgiving Feelings Vocabulary Practice

Start with the set of flashcards. They provide a context for learning the new vocabulary within the emotions unit, making learning relevant.

There is a set of small cards that doubles for a sorting game. They are great for small groups or for Online Education.

Provide the cards as a way to play around this cultural celebration mainly in the USA. They sort the cards by Thanksgiving items: Pilgrims, turkeys,etc.

Sort by emotions the items on the small cards.

Thanksgiving Emotions Bingo Game

It comes with a black and white version.

Print the bingo board template and the Thanksgiving emotion cards. Students cut out the cards and glue their favorite pictures onto the bingo board to create their own unique game. Each student will have a personalized bingo board that can be used again and again throughout the Thanksgiving season for vocabulary, emotions, and speaking activities.

Create Thanksgiving bowling pins with easy-to-find materials!

Print the emotion faces, cut them out, and glue them onto empty soda bottles. Fill each bottle with strips of colored crepe paper, tissue paper, or cellophane to make them colorful and stable. Finally, grab a small ball and your Thanksgiving Emotion Bowling Game is ready to play! Students will have fun practicing emotion vocabulary while knocking down the pins.

Students take turns throwing the ball and naming the emotion on the pin to knock down.

Thanksgiving Emotions Worksheets for Kindergarten

A fun coloring turkey with dotted lines to transform into a mask for role play activities.

Two Thanksgiving Emotions worksheets for kindergarten learners to wrap up the Holiday.

Then, make craft stick puppets!

Students color, cut, and glue the turkey faces onto craft sticks to make emotion puppets. Use the puppets to practice speaking activities, identify feelings, answer questions, and act out simple Thanksgiving-themed conversations using happy, sad, and angry.