Free Thanksgiving Alphabet Worksheets (Color, Write & Trace)

Our free Thanksgiving alphabet worksheets provide a fun, festive way to enhance early literacy skills this holiday season.

With each worksheet, your child can practice letter recognition, learn new words, and strengthen fine motor skills, all within a festive Thanksgiving theme.

Perfect for making learning both engaging and educational!

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Educational benefits of using alphabet worksheets

Thanksgiving alphabet printables bring early literacy skills to life with a seasonal twist, making learning feel festive and enjoyable for preschoolers.

By blending alphabet activities with Thanksgiving-themed elements, these preschool alphabet worksheets support essential skills in a fun, holiday-focused way.

• Each worksheet displays uppercase and lowercase letters for tracing and coloring. This hands-on practice helps children recognize letter shapes and practice forming them correctly.
• Pictures, like turkeys, pumpkins, and fall leaves, are paired with each letter, helping kids connect sounds with seasonal words, which builds phonemic awareness.
• As children match images with letters, they learn new words related to the holiday, like “turkey” for T and “corn” for C, expanding their vocabulary and reinforcing letter-sound connections.
• Activities such as tracing, coloring, and circling fall items strengthen fine motor skills, which are essential for tasks like writing and crafting.
• Finding and circling specific letters among others improves visual discrimination, a key reading skill that helps children recognize letters in various fonts and styles.
• Activities like tracing and matching encourage cognitive skills like pattern recognition and sequencing, supporting attention to detail and memory.

Thanksgiving alphabet activities for preschoolers

Each Thanksgiving alphabet activity page combines fun elements to boost letter recognition, vocabulary, fine motor skills, and cognitive development.

The featured letter is prominently shown in both uppercase and lowercase, allowing children to get familiar with its shape and form at a glance.

Coloring each letter with crayons or markers helps kids visually connect with letters while building fine motor skills through creative activities.

Each page includes an image of a Thanksgiving item beginning with the letter, such as a turkey for “T.” This helps kids link the letter with its sound and introduces seasonal vocabulary.

Both uppercase and lowercase versions of the featured letter are included for tracing, giving children a chance to practice letter formation and develop their writing skills.

A mix of letters is presented, and kids are prompted to find and circle the featured letter, improving visual discrimination—a key skill for reading and recognizing different fonts and styles.

Children can trace the word associated with the Thanksgiving picture, reinforcing letter connections and helping them see how letters form words.

Kids are encouraged to color images that start with the letter sound, building phonemic awareness and reinforcing letter-sound connections.

Thanksgiving alphabet letters

Explore Thanksgiving from A to Z with this festive alphabet list! Each letter highlights a Thanksgiving-themed word, perfect for building vocabulary and connecting the alphabet to the holiday spirit.

• A is for apple
• B is for bread
• C is for cornucopia
• D is for dinner
• E is for eat
• F is for family
• G is for gobble
• H is for ham
• I is for ice cream
• J is for jam
• K is for kitchen
• L is for leaf
• M is for Mayflower
• N is for November
• O is for oven
• P is for pumpkin
• Q is for quince pie
• R is for roast
• S is for sweetcorn
• T is for turkey
• U is for utensils
• V is for vegetables
• W is for wishbone
• X is for miX
• Y is for yam
• Z is for zucchini

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Alphabet books for preschoolers

Here are some engaging alphabet books to support your child’s learning journey alongside our Thanksgiving activities:

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is probably my favorite book of all time, and every family should have this book! It is a playful alphabet adventure where lowercase letters race to the top of a coconut tree, creating a colorful and rhythmic learning experience for preschoolers.

I Spy from A to Z takes young readers on an interactive journey through the alphabet, engaging them in a captivating seek-and-find game that enhances their observation skills.

ABCs of Art introduces children to the world of creativity and culture. Combining the alphabet with various art forms to spark imagination and exploration.

Other free Thanksgiving worksheets for preschoolers

Make the holiday season extra special with these engaging Thanksgiving printables designed to bring fun and learning together.

Practice counting, sorting, and basic addition with Thanksgiving math worksheets, designed to make early math skills engaging and holiday-themed.

Enjoy a game of Thanksgiving bingo with printable cards that help preschoolers recognize Thanksgiving words and symbols, supporting visual memory skills.

Create cherished keepsakes using Thanksgiving handprint templates that let kids make themed designs while working on fine motor skills.

Let creativity flow with Thanksgiving coloring pages, offering kids a fun way to explore colors and practice color recognition.

Build early math skills with Thanksgiving color by number printables that use fall images for a mix of number recognition and color matching.

Strengthen memory through a Thanksgiving matching game printable, which pairs holiday-themed images for an engaging match-up activity.

Decorate the table with Thanksgiving printable placemats that kids can color and personalize, adding a festive touch to family mealtime.

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Additional alphabet learning worksheets

Continue learning the alphabet with these other free printables:

• Alphabet handprint art
• Halloween alphabet worksheets the preschoolers are going to love!
• Fall alphabet worksheets
• Alphabet animals coloring pages.
• A to Z alphabet coloring pages

Last Updated on 12 November 2024 by Clare Brown