Thanksgiving Dinner Collage Art

As part of our healthy body theme, we spent some time exploring food and eating. We also talked about table manners and being polite while eating. We read How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?

And practiced setting the table at this dishes sorting center.

After we talked about some of the foods traditionally eaten on Thanksgiving, we also had a pretend Thanksgiving Dinner.

 First we made our own place settings:

I modeled how to go to the food table and select one food item at a time to take back to their plate.  I also added a counting element to this activity because we are always working on careful counting.

Once the students counted out and added all of the food, they could go back for seconds if they wanted more.

In the end, each student had a fun Thanksgiving Dinner collage. This activity was great for practicing counting, spatial awareness, fine motor (drawing and glueing), and using vocabulary about food and eating.