Free Thanksgiving Coloring Sheet Printable

Grab this free download and share a sweet Thanksgiving coloring sheet with your kids or students!

These days, I find myself helping often in my kids’ classes, especially by putting together class parties for holidays or special occasions.

I’m often hunting around online, looking for fun printable activities to download for the classes.

Using printables is a totally easy and affordable way to entertain kids!

So my hope in sharing this free Thanksgiving coloring sheet is that it helps you out if you find yourself looking for fall activities.

Thanksgiving Activity Ideas for Kids and Family

And speaking of fall activities and Thanksgiving ideas, we have a whole lot more!

Here’s a great Thanksgiving word search that would make the perfect combination with our coloring sheet.

These printable gratitude cards are an awesome activity to do as a family or on the Thanksgiving holiday.

I love making this teacher gift with a class for Thanksgiving. So sentimental!

These place cards and food labels were hand-drawn for us and I think they’re so lovely! Also a free printable.

And this free illustrated printable makes a perfect art piece to hang up for Thanksgiving!

Talking to Kids About Thanksgiving

On a personal note, I often find it super challenging to be a parent around the Thanksgiving season.

The way we were taught about Thanksgiving as children, and the way many of our children are still taught, is a highly sanitized and whitewashed version of history.

There’s very little connection between the violent colonization of Wampanoag territory and the turkey-and-stuffing holiday we celebrate today.

So while we know at school our kids get a vague story about pilgrims and Native Americans sitting down to a friendly feast, in our home we do tell them the truth.

We use words like colonists, Wampanoag, war, harvest, maize, and more. It’s hard to reckon with yet another problematic part of our American history but it’s worth it for our children to understand how our country was built.

It’s for this reason that I didn’t include any “pilgrim” imagery on the coloring sheet, or most of the traditional images you might think of. The closest thing is probably the slice of pumpkin pie.

That all being said, it’s a cultural fact that Thanksgiving is celebrated today in America by coming together with family and friends to be grateful for our blessings.

This coloring sheet, filled with images of cozy animals and harvest bounty, is meant to help celebrate those things.

Ideas for Thanksgiving Coloring Sheets

All of my personal beliefs aside, this coloring sheet is totally perfect for any classroom setting!

It would be perfect to print out for the few days before Thanksgiving weekend, to help kids wind down and get creative.

You could also use it for preschool or day care classes as you start introducing the colors and images of harvest season.

And homeschool families or just any family will hopefully find it useful to print and color any time.

Download the Printable Thanksgiving Coloring Sheet

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Then you’re free to print out as many copies as you need for your children, your class, or whatever project you’re working on.

*Please to not reproduce with the intention of selling this file. Thank you!

I hope you have a great time with this printable! xoxo