I am sure that many other work-at-home moms are in the same boat that I'm in. You're trying to get a little bit of work done, but the kids are underfoot. If you've got out-of-town family staying with you, you may even have extra kids underfoot.
For those of you struggling to keep the kids busy so that you can work, I thought I'd help you out. Here is a giant list of Thanksgiving activites and puzzles to keep your kids busy while you work:
1. Thanksgiving Decorations for Kids to Make at HP (Found through the organizedchristmas.com blog).
2. About.com's Thanksgiving Day Puzzles for Kids page
3. Printable Thanksgiving coloring pages at Kaboose
4. Online Thanksgiving coloring page at Surfing the Net with Kids
5. The Thanksgiving Day Play Space from the Eclectic Home School Online website
6. The First Thanksgiving activity pages from Scholastic.com
7. Thanksgiving day vocabulary puzzles from Vocabulary.com
8. Wilstar Thanksgiving word search puzzle
9. Disguise a Turkey for Thanksgiving
10. More coloring pages from from Free Stuff 4 Kids
11. DLTK's Thanksgiving Activities
12. Design a Thanksgiving cartoon at National Geographic Kids
13. The Kidz Page Thanksgiving Games and Activities
14. Thanksgiving placemats from children's author, Jan Brett - (Also look for coloring pages.)
15. The History of Thanksgiving from the History channel.
16. MayflowerHistory.com - let your kids become experts on the Mayflower
17. Your daughters may enjoy reading about Girls on the Mayflower
18. Thanksgiving fun and games at apples4theteacher.com
19. Thanksgiving page at theholidayspot.com
20. Thanksgiving Day eCards from Yahoo! Kids
21. Thanksgiving Day coloring pages
22. Offline Thanksgiving games for your family from AmazingMoms.com
23. Thanksgiving fun at PrimaryGames
24. More Thanksgiving activities at blackdog4kids
25. Thanksgiving games from BillyBear4Kids.com
Note: Always supervise your kids when they are online. Caution kids to never give out personal information.
What about you? Do you have a favorite activity to keep the kids busy?
Leave a comment and let us know.
Great list Laura, and thanks for including Free Stuff 4 Kids! Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted by: Randa Clay | November 21, 2007 4:46 AM | Permalink to Comment