The holidays present many wonderful opportunities for
learning. In the spirit of Thanksgiving we’re busy incorporating turkeys into our
sessions giving the children ways to work on their speech and fine motor, along
with other skills in their time with us.
We have different
variations turkeys hanging out with us this month. We’re talking about colors
that we want our turkeys to be, how long their legs should be, what shapes we
are using, how we should attach the various pieces of the turkeys together, and
so on.
For our first turkey we used half of a paper plate, tissue
paper squares, a construction paper circle, and construction paper for the beak
and giblet. Depending on the age of the kiddo and the skill set that they have,
we’ll let them cut out the different pieces needed; such as cutting the plate
in half, the tissue paper into squares, and the construction paper into the
shapes needed for the head, beak and giblet.
For our second turkey we used half a paper plate,
construction paper for the body, head, eyes, beak, giblet and legs. We colored
the feathers onto the edges of the plate, and glued the various body parts of
the turkey to the plate. We worked on our folding skills with giving the legs a
little dimension, and cut the ends for feet.
Both of these activities are really easy to do with the
kiddos with only a minimal mess to clean up at the end, and covers speech,
gross motor skills, fine motor skills, decision making, and creativity.
