In preparation for the Thanksgiving holiday, some of my Kindergarten and first grade classes have been completing these Pixie activities.  In the first activity, the students delete one of the pilgrims, so that only a boy OR a girl pilgrim are left.  Next, they take an oval shaped picture of their face and put it on the pilgrims face.  Then I had the students complete the speech bubble “I am thankful for…”  Finally, the students used the paint can and spray paint to add a fall scene in the background.

On the second activity, we discussed how the First Thanksgiving was a celebration of the harvest among the Pilgrims and Indians.  Students searched through the clip art folders under the stickers tab to add foods to the table that would have been served at the Thanksgiving celebration of 1621.  We discussed how some of the foods we eat today at Thanksgiving are much different than the foods that were available to people at the First Thanksgiving.