This Thanksgiving Felt Board activity was just the thing we needed one afternoon when Little Nephew was at our house. It was a super cold day and we were happy to stay inside warm and cozy playing and having fun with a few Thanksgiving activities! This felt board was super easy to put together. I have a big sheet of orange colored fleece fabric that we use for all kinds of activities and play. It makes the perfect fuzzy background for felt play, pretend play when we need to have an impromptu living room teddy bear picnic, and the perfect baby doll blanket!
This time we used our fleece to make an easel cover for our Felt Board Direction Following Turkey. We’ve been doing a lot of turkey crafts and activities leading up to Thanksgiving, and this one was even more fun for the littler ones. Baby Girl (age 2) and Little Nephew (age 2) both loved moving the felt pieces all over the board. And worked on fine motor skills and direction following and patterning at the same time!
This time we used our fleece to make an easel cover for our Felt Board Direction Following Turkey. We’ve been doing a lot of turkey crafts and activities leading up to Thanksgiving, and this one was even more fun for the littler ones. Baby Girl (age 2) and Little Nephew (age 2) both loved moving the felt pieces all over the board. And worked on fine motor skills and direction following and patterning at the same time!
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Just a few supplies are needed for this activity. The Orange Fleece
worked perfectly to hold the felt pieces of our turkey. The rest of the turkey was easy to make using Assorted felt pieces
. A few brown circles, feathers of different colors, little turkey feet, a beak, and a wattle and our turkey was ready for creating!
worked perfectly to hold the felt pieces of our turkey. The rest of the turkey was easy to make using Assorted felt pieces. A few brown circles, feathers of different colors, little turkey feet, a beak, and a wattle and our turkey was ready for creating! I snipped a few little pieces of felt and glued them to the backs of Googley eyes. Then the googly eyes could stick to the fleece.
The fleece was perfect to throw over our Easel
. The fleece stayed in place pretty well without sliding much. With the material up on an included surface, the kids were able to manipulate the pieces of the turkey while using an extended wrist. This positioning of their hand while managing small pieces prepares them for handwriting with a proper position of the wrist and fingers while holding a pencil.
. The fleece stayed in place pretty well without sliding much. With the material up on an included surface, the kids were able to manipulate the pieces of the turkey while using an extended wrist. This positioning of their hand while managing small pieces prepares them for handwriting with a proper position of the wrist and fingers while holding a pencil.
I put one turkey together so the Toddlers could see where all of the pieces went. This task required visual scanning and direction following. We put our turkeys together with multi-step directions to add a little difficulty to the task.
Little Guy (age 4) worked on some patters with the feathers. We used an AB pattern for our turkey feathers.
Little Nephew is a smarty when it comes to identifying colors. He told us all of the colors of the feathers easily!
Working those little pieces was a great fine motor task for these guys!
They needed to use a pincer grasp to pinch the littlest pieces, all while maintaining that extended wrist.
We had such fun day with our Turkey patterns, direction following, and fine motor play. This would be an easy activity to put together in these last days before Thanksgiving!
