Thanksgiving Craft Bundle: Fine Motor and Occupational Therapy Activities
$10.00
Bring Thanksgiving and fall themes into occupational therapy sessions with this Thanksgiving Craft Bundle, featuring 14 printable crafts designed to support fine motor skills, scissor skills, bilateral coordination, visual motor integration, and more!
This collection includes turkey crafts, fall-themed projects, Thanksgiving finger puppets, and creative activities that give kids opportunities to practice important developmental skills through hands-on crafting.
Whether you’re planning Thanksgiving occupational therapy sessions, classroom craft stations, fine motor groups, or seasonal activities at home, this bundle provides a variety of ready-to-use options.
Description
What’s Included in the Thanksgiving Craft Bundle?
This printable bundle includes 14 Thanksgiving and fall craft activities:
- Turkey Mask Craft: Cut, color, and create a turkey mask while practicing scissor skills, bilateral coordination, and visual motor skills.
- Turkey Crown Craft: Create a wearable turkey crown that incorporates coloring, cutting, assembly, and sequencing.
- Turkeys in Disguise Crafts: Use creativity and problem-solving to disguise a turkey while working on fine motor precision and visual motor skills.
- Turkey Hand Paint Activity: Explore painting and hand-based art while encouraging sensory exploration, body awareness, and creativity.
- Thanksgiving Finger Puppets: Make finger puppets for fine motor practice, then use them for finger isolation, imaginative play, and storytelling.
- Ear of Corn Craft: Assemble a corn-themed project while practicing grasp, precision, and bilateral hand use.
- Acorn Craft: Create a seasonal acorn while working on cutting, coloring, gluing, and visual motor coordination.
- Scissor Skills Turkey Craft: Practice cutting along lines and shapes while creating a Thanksgiving turkey.
- Build a Turkey Craft: Cut and assemble turkey pieces to address visual spatial skills, sequencing, and motor planning.
- Clothespin Turkey Craft: Incorporate clothespin manipulation to support pinch strength, finger coordination, and hand strength.
- Turkey Craft: A classic Thanksgiving craft for practicing coloring, cutting, gluing, and following directions.
- Fall Tree Craft: Create a fall tree while working on fine motor manipulation, visual motor skills, and creativity.
- Sunflower Craft: Data Collection: Combine a seasonal craft with opportunities to observe and record fine motor and visual motor performance.
- Thankful Tree Craft: Create a tree featuring things children are thankful for while incorporating handwriting, self-expression, and fine motor practice.
Occupational Therapy Skills Addressed
These Thanksgiving crafts offer opportunities to work on several developmental skills through meaningful, hands-on activities.
Fine Motor Skills: Coloring, manipulating small craft pieces, pinching clothespins, and applying glue encourage controlled finger movements, grasp development, and dexterity.
Scissor Skills: Cutting out turkey feathers, craft pieces, and seasonal shapes provides practice with opening and closing scissors, cutting accuracy, and paper manipulation.
Bilateral Coordination: Children use both hands together as they stabilize paper, cut, glue, fold, and assemble their crafts.
Visual Motor Integration: Following cutting lines, positioning pieces, coloring within boundaries, and assembling pictures require coordination between visual information and hand movements.
Hand Strength: Activities involving clothespins, squeezing glue, manipulating paper, and handling craft materials provide opportunities to develop hand strength and endurance.
Motor Planning and Executive Functioning: Completing a craft involves gathering materials, following steps, organizing pieces, sequencing actions, and checking the finished project.
Handwriting and Written Expression: Crafts such as the Thankful Tree can be extended with writing activities, including words, phrases, or sentences about gratitude.
Sensory Processing: Painting, gluing, and manipulating different craft materials offer opportunities for tactile exploration and sensory-motor experiences.
How to Use Thanksgiving Crafts in Occupational Therapy
One of the benefits of this bundle is the ability to adapt the same craft to address different therapy goals.
For a child working on scissor skills, focus on cutting out the pieces and rotating the paper with the helper hand.
For fine motor strength, use the Clothespin Turkey Craft or incorporate squeezing glue, crumpling paper, and manipulating small materials.
For visual motor skills, have the child look at a completed example and determine how to position the pieces to recreate the design.
For executive functioning, provide the materials and have the child plan the steps, organize the pieces, and follow the sequence to complete the project.
For handwriting, add a short writing component to the craft. Children might label their turkey, write a Thanksgiving sentence, or record something they are thankful for.
You can also use the crafts in small groups to support turn-taking, communication, sharing materials, and collaborative participation.
Great for Thanksgiving Therapy Planning
Use these printable Thanksgiving crafts in:
- School-based occupational therapy sessions
- Fine motor and scissor skills groups
- Preschool and elementary classrooms
- Special education settings
- Thanksgiving classroom centers
- Homeschool activities
- Fall therapy themes
- Thanksgiving parties and activity stations
- Home programs and family activities
Make Thanksgiving Therapy Planning Easier!
With 14 Thanksgiving and fall craft activities in one bundle, you’ll have a variety of seasonal projects ready to incorporate into therapy sessions and classroom activities.
Choose the craft that matches the skills you’re addressing, adapt the activity to the child’s abilities, and enjoy hands-on Thanksgiving fun while supporting fine motor development.
Print, create, and build skills with the Thanksgiving Craft Bundle!
