Thanksgiving Math Activities for Preschoolers (Free Printable)

These Thanksgiving math activities for preschoolers are five printable pages of turkeys, pies and pumpkins that sneak in counting, patterns and comparing numbers. To a four-year-old it looks like coloring with extra steps. Nobody has to know.

Print them for the week of Thanksgiving break, or tuck them into the rest of your November preschool theme.

Thanksgiving math activities for preschoolers printable pages with turkeys and pumpkins

The free download is at the bottom of the post. Above it: what each page covers, three ways to stretch the pack into a full morning, and more Thanksgiving learning when they finish.

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Table of Contents

What’s in the Thanksgiving Math Pack

The PDF is 7 pages: a cover, 5 activity pages, and a terms of use page. One skill per page.

Thanksgiving Pattern: cut out the pictures at the bottom and glue them into the empty squares to finish each pattern.
Big or Small? check the big object, cross out the small one.
Let’s Match! draw a line from each group of objects to the right number.
Let’s Count! count the pictures and write the number in the box.
Comparing Numbers: compare two groups and write greater than, less than or equal in the middle.

Thanksgiving pattern and counting worksheets for preschool

Why Thanksgiving Math Works for Preschoolers

Preschoolers will count anything if it has a turkey on it. The holiday pictures make the abstract stuff, like more and fewer, a lot easier to see, and the cut-and-glue pattern page sneaks in some fine motor practice too.

Each page is short. Five minutes, one skill, done. That is about the attention span you get the week of Thanksgiving anyway.

Fun Ways to Use This Printable

Create a Thanksgiving Counting Hunt

Cut out a few pictures and hide them around the room. Kids find them, sort them into groups, count each group, and tell you which pile has more. It counts as math and it gets them out of their chairs.

Build Your Own Thanksgiving Patterns

Give them a tray of cut-out pieces and let them make their own AB, AAB or ABC patterns, then explain the pattern out loud. Talking it through is where the sequencing skills actually stick.

Roll and Solve Thanksgiving Game

Add a die. Whatever they roll, they count out that many turkeys, build a matching set, or find that number on the matching page. Same pages, more rounds, and nobody asks for a new worksheet.

Thanksgiving math printables for preschool with counting and comparing pages

More Thanksgiving Learning for Little Kids

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Quick answers about the Thanksgiving math pages, so you know which ones to hand over first.

Five of them, one per page: patterns, big or small, matching numbers to groups, counting, and comparing numbers with greater than, less than and equal signs.

Some of them. Big or Small and the counting page work for most threes with a grown-up nearby. Comparing numbers is a stretch until closer to 4 or 5, so save that one for later or do it together.

Scissors and a glue stick for the pattern page, plus a pencil or crayon. Counters or a handful of cereal make the counting and comparing pages easier for kids who still need to touch what they count.

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