This fun Thanksgiving scavenger hunt for kids is a great way to have some extra fun during your Thanksgiving festivities.
Just print our free thanksgiving scavenger hunt and have kids start searching for the various items on the check list!
Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt For Kids
We love Thanksgiving!
After Christmas, it’s absolutely my families favorite holiday.
And, with the Thanksgiving holiday right around the corner I wanted to add another fun activity to our growing collection of wonderful Thanksgiving games and crafts.
We’ve also got a super popular Christmas scavenger hunt and Halloween scavenger hunt so it felt like it was time we add a Thanksgiving game to our collection of treasure hunts.
This free printable Thanksgiving scavenger hunt was created with young children in mind.
Our free printable Thanksgiving scavenger hunt game comes with a checklist of Thanksgiving items that young kids need to find!
With a Thanksgiving themed list of items, both younger and older children will have holiday fun trying to tick off all the items on their Thanksgiving treasure hunt.
Pair this great activity with our Thanksgiving placemat, holiday cootie catcher, I Spy Thanksgiving, coloring pages, color by number, thanksgiving unscramble worksheet to create your own thanksgiving activity book.
Scavenger Hunt Clues
After printing the digital file of our Thanksgiving checklist scavenger hunt, little kids will need to tick off the various items as they find them.
Children should be encouraged to find the various items around their home. In some cases it might be necessary to head outside to spy some of the items on the list.
At the end of the hunt, children can be rewarded with prizes including non-candy treats, gift cards or small toys. Of course, this is completely optional.
Here are the Thanksgiving themed items children will need to find:
- Acorn
- Pumpkin
- Turkey
- Pilgrim hat
- Orange leaf
- Apple
- Corn
- Green leaf
- Bare tree
- Cranberry sauce
- Pumpkin pie
- Football
- Candle
- Pinecone
What You’ll Need
- Thanksgiving scavenger hunt for kids – to download the free digital product you’ll need to scroll to the very bottom of this blog post.
- Printer and card stock paper – if you don’t have a color printer you can also print in black and white or head to a local print shop
- Pencil
- Clipboard (optional)
More Screen Free Thanksgiving Activities
Here is a large collection of our favorite screen free Thanksgiving activities for older and younger kids.
This list includes a variety of crafts, free printables and fun activities that are great options for children around Thanksgiving.
These great crafts and activities are great resources for teachers and parents who are looking for creative ways to celebrate Thanksgiving.
- Thanksgiving cootie catcher – print, color and fold a cootie catcher for your Thanksgiving celebration
- Thanksgiving placemats for kids – an excellent activity for the kids’ table during Thanksgiving dinner
- Pilgrim hat craft – another easy prep craft you can make during the holiday season
- Thanksgiving bingo – one of our most popular free printables around Thanksgiving. This classic game is also fun for middle school and high school students too!
- Thanksgiving coloring pages – these adorable turkey templates are so much fun to color
- Paper bag acorn craft – an adorable craft perfect for kids in kindergarten and 1st grade
- Cute corn cob craft – little learners love creating these cute paper bag corn cobs
- Fall bucket list – make the best of all the wonderful activities and experiences the fall season has to offer with our free bucket list for families
- Paper bag turkey craft – create an instant thanksgiving bulletin board after making these great turkey crafts with kids
- Pumpkin puppet craft – children of a variety of different age categories enjoy making this festive craft
- Cute scarecrow craft – a fun little craft you can make in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving color by number – one of our favorite ways to work on number and color recognition with kids up to 2nd grade
- Free printable Thanksgiving unscramble worksheets – fun independent work for kids in English language arts or social studies anytime during November
- I Spy Thanksgiving – a fun way to work on visual tracking and recognition skills with young learners up to 3rd or 4th grade.
- Thanksgiving word search – great for kids up to 7th grade this word puzzle comes with a Thanksgiving themed word bank.
Download Instructions
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For best results and an optimal experience, we recommend printing our printable pdf thanksgiving scavenger hunt for kids on high quality letter size white cardstock paper.
It makes for a better quality crafting experience and is far more durable than standard copy paper is.
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Reading Recommendations
Pair our free printable Thanksgiving scavenger hunt with these fun reading suggestions!
These 6 Thanksgiving themed books are a nice extension to our free printable Thanksgiving scavenger hunt for kids. They’re a fun way to continue the fun during the Thanksgiving season.
These books do a great job of explaining the first Thanksgiving to young children in kid friendly language that is compelling and easy to understand.
- I Am Thankful – an adorable rhyming book that looks at how Thanksgiving traditions including acts of kindness and giving can differ between different families on this special day of thanks. Such a cute book for your children.
- How To Catch a Turkey – a fun book from the How To Catch series has children turning their school upside down trying to find an escaped Turkey.
- The Story of the Pilgrims – an excellent book that tells young children the history of Thanksgiving in kid friendly language.
- Balloons over Broadway – the charming story of the puppeteer behind the giant balloons we see floating during the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade.
- A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving – the classic story of Charlie making a Thanksgiving feast for his friends! Can he pull it off?
- Little Critter: Just a Special Thanksgiving – celebrate Thanksgiving with Little Critter and his family in Critterville.
Before You Go
This scavenger hunt for Thanksgiving was really fun to make in anticipation of the big day.
It’s a fun little game that you can use with young children at Thanksgiving gatherings.
The fun thing about scavenger hunts is that children of all ages can have lots of fun searching for the various items.
In fact, the whole family can enjoy spending time together while playing a scavenger hunt game.
We’d love to see our Thanksgiving scavenger hunt for kids in action. So, snap a photo and reach out to us on our Facebook page to show us!
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🦃 Happy Thanksgiving 🦃