Printable Thanksgiving Coloring Pages

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Thanksgiving Coloring Pages

Enjoy a bounty of arts and crafts fun for fall with printable Thanksgiving coloring pages and harvest season activity sheets.

I've collected links to the best printable harvest coloring pages (on family-friendly sites) and activity sheets for this article.

You'll find printable coloring sheets with traditional Thanksgiving themes along with smaller organized sets of coloring pages with a single theme, for example: turkey coloring pages, Pilgrims and native Americans, harvest season pictures and bountiful feasts. Kids will enjoy the cut and paste activities to color and then use to create crafts and decorations for home or classroom. There's also a selection of printable games and puzzles, and fun pencil games with harvest themes.

All coloring page illustrations on this page are my own work.

Visit my web sites to find printable Thanksgiving posters, coloring pages and crafts.

Quick Print Thanksgiving Sheets and Posters

Thanksgiving placemat coloring activity - turkey

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Table Setting Activity Sheets

Help kids learn proper table setting with a craft activity sheet just right for family meals and Thanksgiving dinner.

Thanksgiving was always the special holiday in our family when each of us - 6 kids - learned the basics of setting the table. Coloring in a place mat with plate, knife, fork and spoon teaches the basic of table setting for any day, and is a fun activity to keep kids busy before your family feast celebration.

Printable Table Setting Place Mat Template

Comical Turkey Coloring Page Place Mat

Make a poster or a placemat with this funny Pilgrim Turkey coloring poster. The turkey is wearing a fancy neck collar, but looking a bit worried. Follow the turkey tracks around the place mat border.

Printable Place Mat Coloring Page - Turkey place mats to color in and laminate

First Thanksgiving Coloring Pages - Sharing the bounty at the first feast for giving thanks (US)

Print and color pictures of the first harvest feast celebration with Pilgrims and native Americans sharing a meal in Massachusetts.

• Crayola Thanksgiving Feast Coloring Page
  Pilgrims and native Americans at the feast of celebration for surviving a difficult winter in the New World.
• Giving Thanks, Sharing a Meal
  Native American and Pilgrim breaking bread together.
• Thanksgiving Coloring Pictures
  Get out your crayons, coloring pictures are here. Just print and color!
• Plimoth Plantation Pictures to Color
  Have fun coloring these pictures of exhibits at Plimoth Plantation, the living history museum in Massachusetts.

Pilgrim hat coloring page or craft template

The Pilgrim men wore tall hats with wide bands and brims as part of their formal clothing. Women wore bonnets that covered their hair and tied securely beneath their chins.

Pilgrims and Native Americans Coloring Pages - Costumes and scenes of early settlers and native Americans

Many of the Pilgrim coloring pages in this section are geared toward younger children and so feature simple drawings or cartoon type pictures.

• Native American and Pilgrim Color Pages
  Native American and Pilgrim coloring sheet - part of the learn-to-read, read-to-me series.
• Printable Pilgrim Hunting Coloring Sheet
  Free printable Pilgrim hunter coloring page
• Pilgrim Family Coloring Page
  Color in a picture of a Pilgrim family.

Crayola Crayons Can't Be Beat

Biggest Set Ever! Telescoping Tower Keeps 150 Crayon Colors Organized

Crayola ® offers the biggest range of crayon colors ever, with 118 regular crayons, 16 metallic crayons and 16 glitter crayons, in this telescoping tower, the largest set of crayons you can buy.

Happy Thanksgiving Turkey Coloring Poster - Print and Color Turkey Day Poster

Turkey Coloring Pages - Mr. Gobbler Activity Sheets

The big bird gobbler is king for US Thanksgiving feasts. These pages feature printable turkey coloring pages and cut-paste coloring craft activities.

• Crayola Coloring Pages - Turkey Craft
  Color, cut out and paste together a Thanksgving turkey at Crayola.
• Turkey coloring pages for kids
  Printable turkey coloring pages, turkeys with feathers and turkeys roasted and ready to eat.
• Turkey with Pilgrim Hat Coloring Page
  Kids will love this thanksgiving coloring page of a turkey wearing a Pilgrim hat standing behind a cornucopia of harvest foods.
• Simple Shape Turkey Pattern
  Simple Turkey outline shape template

The First Thanksgiving Coloring Book - 24 Pilgrim Life Scenes plus 6 American Revolution Pages

24 unique pages of historic Pilgrim and Indian coloring pages featuring typical daily life scenes from America's early history and the first Thanksgiving.

Printable Thanksgiving Coloring Pages

Harvest Theme Printables

Bountiful Collections of Printables to Color or Use as Templates

• Activity Village Thanksgiving Coloring Pages - Something to do whilst waiting for dinner to cook or to entertain the children.
• PIlgrims Coloring Pages - more than a dozen different simple pictures to color of Pilgrims
• Thanksgiving Riddles Coloring - fun to solve riddles with a coloring page to go along with the puzzle
• Preschool Thanksgiving Coloring Book - lots of printable simple shapes pages here!

Prismacolor Colored Pencil Set - Rich and Smooth Blendable Pigments

Set of 24 colors includes all the most popular colored pencil hues in an easel-backed storage case box to hold pencils upright and visible while coloring and safe while in storage.

Harvest Scarecrow Coloring Page

Harvest Coloring Pages - Fall Coloring Sheets - Thanksgiving is a celebration of autumn harvest bounty

Find printable coloring pages of harvest season, autumn and traditional Thanksgiving foods in this section.

• Children's Ministry Blog: Harvest Coloring Pages
  You can make as many copies of these coloring pages as you need for your children's program.
• Harvest Coloring Pages
  ColoringBookFun.com Thanksgiving free coloring pages for kids to download, print and color, harvest season and Thanksgiving pictures to color.
• Harvest Coloring Page
  Cute animals at Harvest Coloring Page
• Harvest Scene Coloring Page
  Corn, pumpkins,squash, grains, cornucopia and potatoes

Thanksgiving Games to Play Online - Online Games for Kids and Families

Enjoy these interactive games with a Thanksgiving or Harvest theme.

• Turkey Online Coloring Game for Kids
  Use the paintbrush to color the turkey picture online. To pick a new color, move the paintbrush over the color you want to use and click the mouse.
• Seek A Word: Thanksgiving Game
  Solve a free word search puzzle

Printable Thanksgiving Games - Pencil Games for Harvest Season

I've gathered a collection of free printable pencil games you can use to create activity packets or hand out in the classroom. Kids who can read will find the long ride to Grandma's house a little shorter if you equip them with a few printable mazes, word finds, puzzles and other pencil games. Don't forget a spare pencil and a few erasers!

• Thanksgiving Differences - What's Not the Same?
  Solve this Spot The Difference puzzle. Clues and answers are provided. Print and solve this puzzle. Share it in your classroom or with your friend. Free puzzle. Free Spot the Difference puzzle.
• First Thanksgiving Crossword Puzzle
  10 words across and 11 down make this a satisfying holiday themed crossword, complete with answers on a separate sheet.
• Decode the Message Puzzle Game
  Decode the secret Thanksgiving message by writing the correct letters in each space with the matching images. Get worksheets, craft ideas and more at AllKidsNetwork.com.

© 2011 Lee Hansen

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chrisilouwho on November 18, 2013:

Thank you for this, we already had our Thanksgiving up here in Ontario but I'll have to keep this in mind for next year to keep the kids occupied (both young and old!)

dawnsnewbeginning on November 22, 2012:

I like the placemat coloring idea! Gives the kids something to do while waiting for the big dinner!

tamjo5 on November 20, 2012:

Thank You I love your lens!

joancol lm on November 18, 2012:

My kids will love this!

Lee Hansen (author) from Vermont on November 03, 2012:

@KathyMcGraw2: Hi Kathy, thanks for stopping by! That VW bus on my website is pretty popular. Guess there are a lot of boomers and peaceniks still out there :D

Kathy McGraw from California on November 03, 2012:

Thanksgiving Printable Coloring Pages seems a good way to keep kids busy while the Thanksgiving turkey cooks they can color your free Thanksgiving turkey printable page. Or a pilgrim hat, or heck you have several choices for thanksgiving coloring pages here. Oh, and I love the Volkswagon bus coloring page on your website leehansen.com

Donnette Davis from South Africa on October 30, 2012:

Always beautiful!

HolidaysDex on October 14, 2012:

A great resource for coloring pages. Thanks.

MissKanti on October 11, 2012:

This collection of coloring pages, games and activity sheets are perfect for kids during the Thanksgiving season.

Fay Favored from USA on August 28, 2012:

A nice collection of coloring pages. Plenty of activity to keep us going through the holiday.

Srena44 on November 25, 2011:

great lens

poutine on November 16, 2011:

Wishing you a very Joyful Thanksgiving.