In November, counting turkey feathers or splitting up a pie already feels like part of the holiday. Below is every Thanksgiving game in Bright Minds Club, sorted by skill and grade. Each section ends with a two-minute version you can try at the kitchen table.
The short version
What are good Thanksgiving learning games for kindergarten through 2nd grade?
Bright Minds Club has 18 Thanksgiving learning games for kindergarten through 2nd grade. They cover:
- Counting, adding, subtracting, comparing, place value and skip counting: Turkey Feather Count, Feast Table Addition, Pie Slice Take Away, Gobble Greater Than, Acorn Tens and Ones and Corn Cob Skip Count
- Money and telling time: Turkey Market Money and Turkey Dinner Time
- Shapes, patterns and graphs: Turkey Shape Feathers, Turkey Trot Patterns and Pumpkin Patch Graphs
- Letter sounds, rhyming, sight words, word families, vocabulary and sentences: Turkey Letter Sounds, Gobble Rhymes, Gobble Gobble Sight Words, Gobble Word Families, Harvest Words Match and Thankful Sentence Builder
- Gratitude and kindness: Gratitude Garden
12 fit kindergarten, 18 fit 1st grade and 8 fit 2nd grade. They come with the membership, which starts with a 14-day free trial, no card needed. They play in the browser on iPad, Chromebook and laptop.
Find a game by grade
Jump to: Kindergarten (12) · 1st grade (18) · 2nd grade (8)
| Game | What your child practices | Grade | Skill |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey Feather Count | Building and counting sets up to 12 | K-1 | Numbers |
| Feast Table Addition | Adding plates of food, sums to 5, 10 and 20 | K-2 | Numbers |
| Pie Slice Take Away | Subtracting from 5 and 10, then finding the missing part | K-1 | Numbers |
| Gobble Greater Than | Comparing numbers with >, < and =, up to 120 | 1st-2nd grade | Numbers |
| Acorn Tens and Ones | Tens and ones in two-digit numbers | 1st-2nd grade | Numbers |
| Corn Cob Skip Count | Skip counting by 10s, 5s and 2s | 1st-2nd grade | Numbers |
| Turkey Market Money | Paying exact amounts with coins, up to 90¢ | 1st-2nd grade | Money |
| Turkey Dinner Time | Telling time to the hour and half hour | 1st-2nd grade | Time |
| Turkey Shape Feathers | Naming 2D shapes, counting sides and corners | K-1 | Shapes |
| Turkey Trot Patterns | Finishing repeating patterns (AB to AABB) | K-1 | Patterns |
| Pumpkin Patch Graphs | Reading picture graphs and bar graphs | 1st-2nd grade | Graphs |
| Turkey Letter Sounds | Beginning and ending sounds | K-1 | Reading |
| Gobble Rhymes | Hearing, finding and reading rhymes | K-1 | Reading |
| Gobble Gobble Sight Words | Dolch Pre-Primer and Primer sight words | K-1 | Reading |
| Gobble Word Families | Word families like -at and -ig, building CVC words | K-1 | Reading |
| Harvest Words Match | Matching fall and Thanksgiving words to pictures | K-1 | Reading |
| Thankful Sentence Builder | Putting words in order to build a sentence | K-1 | Reading |
| Gratitude Garden | Saying thank you, kind choices, naming feelings | K-2 | Kindness |
Kindergarten (12 games)
Turkey Feather Count, Feast Table Addition, Pie Slice Take Away, Turkey Shape Feathers, Turkey Trot Patterns, Turkey Letter Sounds, Gobble Rhymes, Gobble Gobble Sight Words, Gobble Word Families, Harvest Words Match, Thankful Sentence Builder, Gratitude Garden.
1st grade (18 games)
Turkey Feather Count, Feast Table Addition, Pie Slice Take Away, Gobble Greater Than, Acorn Tens and Ones, Corn Cob Skip Count, Turkey Market Money, Turkey Dinner Time, Turkey Shape Feathers, Turkey Trot Patterns, Pumpkin Patch Graphs, Turkey Letter Sounds, Gobble Rhymes, Gobble Gobble Sight Words, Gobble Word Families, Harvest Words Match, Thankful Sentence Builder, Gratitude Garden.
Which Thanksgiving math games work for a kindergartner?
Five of the Thanksgiving math games are listed for kindergarten:
- Turkey Feather Count (building and counting sets up to 12)
- Feast Table Addition (adding, starting with sums to 5)
- Pie Slice Take Away (subtracting from 5, then from 10)
- Turkey Shape Feathers (naming 2D shapes, sides and corners)
- Turkey Trot Patterns (what comes next in a pattern)
For reading, all six Thanksgiving reading games are listed for kindergarten: Turkey Letter Sounds, Gobble Rhymes, Gobble Gobble Sight Words, Gobble Word Families, Harvest Words Match and Thankful Sentence Builder. Gratitude Garden fits kindergarten too.
Thanksgiving number games (counting, adding, subtracting, comparing, tens and ones, skip counting)
Turkey Feather Count (K-1)
The cat asks for a number, like "Give the turkey 7 feathers!", with a big card that shows the numeral and the number word. Your child adds feathers, takes off any extras, and taps DONE. In the How Many? level, the turkey already has feathers, and your child counts them. If an answer is off, the feathers get numbered so your child can count along.
Feast Table Addition (K-2)
The cat reads a short story like "3 rolls and 4 more. How many in all?" and shows the number sentence under the plates. The food sits in rows of 5 so bigger numbers are easy to see, and your child taps the pumpkin pie with the total. Sums start at 5 and go up to 10, then 20. If an answer is off, the cat helps them count on from the first plate.
Pie Slice Take Away (K-1)
"The pie had 8 slices. 3 slices were eaten. How many are left?" Eaten slices show as empty spots with crumbs, and the number sentence sits under the pie. Your child subtracts from 5, then from 10. In the last level they work out how many slices were eaten.
Gobble Greater Than (1st-2nd grade)
Two numbers appear with a ? between them. Your child taps >, < or =, the sign drops into place, and the turkey gobbles. Level 1 shows acorns under numbers to 20. Level 2 uses tens rods and ones up to 99. Level 3 goes to 120 with numbers only. The cat's reminder: compare the tens first, and the turkey's mouth opens toward the bigger number.
Acorn Tens and Ones (1st-2nd grade)
Squirrels pack acorns in bags of 10. Your child counts the bags and the loose acorns to find how many in all, then says how many tens or ones a number has. In the last level they build the number with bags of 10 and single acorns. The big idea here is that 10 ones make one ten.
Corn Cob Skip Count (1st-2nd grade)
A row of harvest baskets shows running totals, and one basket is marked ?. Your child taps the missing number. The levels move from corn (counting by 10s) to apples (5s) to pumpkins (2s). If an answer is off, the cat counts up from the basket before.
At the kitchen table (2 minutes): While you set the table, ask, "We need 7 forks. How many more do we need?" After dinner, look at a pie cut into slices and ask how many are left after a few are eaten. For 1st and 2nd graders, count a pile of crackers or nuts into groups of 10: "Three groups and four extra is 34." Then count the groups by 10s.
For younger kids, our guide Is your kindergartner ready for addition? covers the signs to look for. None of the number games are free. They come with the membership and its free trial. All number games.
Thanksgiving money and telling-time games
Turkey Market Money (1st-2nd grade)
A harvest item appears with a price tag, like 37¢. Your child taps coins into the tray and then taps PAY. Pennies and nickels come first, then dimes, then quarters, with amounts up to 90¢. If an answer is off, the cat says how much is in the tray and how much more is needed, or that it's too much.
Turkey Dinner Time (1st-2nd grade)
A clock appears with a Thanksgiving event like "The parade starts!" and your child picks the matching time, such as 9:00 or 9:30. In Match the Clock, they read a digital time and find the clock face that shows it. It sticks to times on the hour and half hour.
At the kitchen table (2 minutes): Put price tags on two snacks, like 15¢ and 22¢, and let your child pay from a pile of real coins. Then look at the clock together: "Dinner is at 5:00. Is the clock showing 5:00 yet?"
More ideas: How to teach kids to count money and How to teach telling time without tears.
Free to try: Piggy Bank Coin Counting (K-1) and Which Is Worth More? (K-2) practice coins, and Tick Tock Time (1st-2nd grade) practices reading a clock. You don't need an account for any of them. All money games · All time games.
Thanksgiving shapes, patterns and graphs games
Turkey Shape Feathers (K-1)
The cat asks something like "Find the triangle!" and your child picks from four shapes. Level 2 adds ovals, rhombuses, trapezoids, pentagons and hexagons, sometimes turned. Level 3 asks riddles like "Which shape has 6 sides?"
Turkey Trot Patterns (K-1)
A parade of apples, corn, pumpkins, leaves, acorns and turkeys ends with a ?. Your child taps what comes next, and when they get it right, the part that repeats lights up. Patterns go from AB up to AABB.
Pumpkin Patch Graphs (1st-2nd grade)
A harvest graph appears with a question like "How many apples?" or "Which has the most?" Level 1 uses picture graphs where each picture counts as 1. Level 2 compares rows. Level 3 switches to bar graphs with a scale to 10.
At the kitchen table (2 minutes): Make a pattern with fall things you have at home: leaf, acorn, leaf, acorn. What comes next? Then ask everyone at the table their favorite pie and draw one mark per vote. Which pie has the most?
Free to try: Shape Safari (K-2) practices 2D shapes, sides and corners, and you don't need an account. All shape games · All graph and pattern games.
Thanksgiving reading games (letter sounds, rhyming, sight words, word families, sentences)
These practice sounds, rhymes, sight words and simple sentences. They aren't a full reading program.
Turkey Letter Sounds (K-1)
The game names a picture like pumpkin or turkey, and your child taps its first letter. Next they find the picture that starts with a letter. The last level uses words like cat and mop and asks for the ending sound. The cat's tip: stretch the word out slowly.
Gobble Rhymes (K-1)
The game names two pictures aloud, like cat and hat, and your child taps YES or NO: do they rhyme? Then it asks "Which one rhymes with pig?" In the last level your child reads a word like corn or pie and picks its rhyme.
Gobble Gobble Sight Words (K-1)
The game reads a sight word aloud, and your child finds it among four cards. The wrong cards look a lot like the right one, so your child has to really read. The right card flies into the turkey's tummy. The words come from the Dolch Pre-Primer and Primer lists.
Gobble Word Families (K-1)
"This turkey loves -at words." First your child taps the word that ends in -at. Next they pick the first letter to finish a word like ?ig. Then they read words and feed each one to the turkey with the same ending. Families include -at, -ig, -op, -ug and -an.
Harvest Words Match (K-1)
Your child matches fall and Thanksgiving pictures to words, then words to pictures. The last level is riddles, like "I am big, round, and orange. You can bake me into a pie! What am I?"
Thankful Sentence Builder (K-1)
A picture and scrambled word tiles appear, and the sentence is read aloud. Your child taps the words in order. Sentences grow from 3 words ("We eat pie.") to 6 ("I am thankful for my family."), and the cat points out the capital letter at the start and the period at the end.
At the kitchen table (2 minutes): Play a rhyme game with dinner words: pie, my, sky; corn, horn. Then pick a food and ask what sound it starts with: "t-t-turkey."
Free to try: Word Builder (K-1) practices compound words, and you don't need an account. All phonics games · All word and vocabulary games.
Thanksgiving kindness game
Gratitude Garden (K-2)
A short story is read aloud, like "Grandma gives you a warm scarf." Your child picks the thankful response, or the kind choice when, for example, a new kid is sitting alone. In How Do They Feel? they match a situation to happy, sad, mad or surprised. Every right answer makes a flower bloom.
At the kitchen table (2 minutes): Go around the table and have each person say one thing they're thankful for. Your child can say theirs as a full sentence, like the ones in Thankful Sentence Builder.
How to try them
- All 18 Thanksgiving games are members-only.
- The membership starts with a 14-day free trial, no card needed. Cancel anytime from your parent dashboard.
- They work in iPad, Chromebook and laptop browsers, with nothing to download.
- One membership covers the family, with a profile for each child.
- Five other games are free with no account: Piggy Bank Coin Counting, Which Is Worth More?, Tick Tock Time, Shape Safari and Word Builder.
Browse all 109 games · Halloween learning games · Parent guides
Teaching a class? Get the Thanksgiving games as a bundle
Want to run these games in centers or with the whole class? I also sell them as no-prep bundles in my Teacher Games store on TpT.
- Thanksgiving Games Mega Bundle (K-2, 20 games)
- Fall Games Mega Bundle (K-2, 41 Halloween and Thanksgiving games)
Questions parents ask
What are good Thanksgiving learning games for kindergarten through 2nd grade?
Bright Minds Club has 18 Thanksgiving learning games for kindergarten through 2nd grade:
- Counting and number skills: Turkey Feather Count, Feast Table Addition, Pie Slice Take Away, Gobble Greater Than, Acorn Tens and Ones and Corn Cob Skip Count.
- Money and time: Turkey Market Money and Turkey Dinner Time.
- Shapes, patterns and graphs: Turkey Shape Feathers, Turkey Trot Patterns and Pumpkin Patch Graphs.
- Reading: Turkey Letter Sounds, Gobble Rhymes, Gobble Gobble Sight Words, Gobble Word Families, Harvest Words Match and Thankful Sentence Builder.
- Kindness: Gratitude Garden.
12 fit kindergarten, 18 fit 1st grade and 8 fit 2nd grade.
Which Thanksgiving games work for a kindergartner?
Twelve are listed for kindergarten:
- Math: Turkey Feather Count, Feast Table Addition, Pie Slice Take Away, Turkey Shape Feathers and Turkey Trot Patterns.
- Reading: Turkey Letter Sounds, Gobble Rhymes, Gobble Gobble Sight Words, Gobble Word Families, Harvest Words Match and Thankful Sentence Builder.
- Kindness: Gratitude Garden.
Are there Thanksgiving math games for 1st grade?
Yes. All 18 Thanksgiving games fit 1st grade. The math ones are:
- Adding and subtracting: Feast Table Addition and Pie Slice Take Away.
- Comparing numbers: Gobble Greater Than.
- Tens and ones: Acorn Tens and Ones.
- Skip counting: Corn Cob Skip Count.
- Counting coins: Turkey Market Money.
- Telling time to the hour and half hour: Turkey Dinner Time.
- Graphs: Pumpkin Patch Graphs.
- Counting sets, shapes and patterns: Turkey Feather Count, Turkey Shape Feathers and Turkey Trot Patterns.
Which Thanksgiving games work for 2nd grade?
Eight are listed for 2nd grade: Feast Table Addition, Gobble Greater Than, Acorn Tens and Ones, Corn Cob Skip Count, Turkey Market Money, Turkey Dinner Time, Pumpkin Patch Graphs and Gratitude Garden.
Are there Thanksgiving reading games?
Yes. There are six, all for kindergarten and 1st grade:
- Turkey Letter Sounds: beginning and ending sounds.
- Gobble Rhymes: rhyming.
- Gobble Gobble Sight Words: sight words.
- Gobble Word Families: word families and CVC words.
- Harvest Words Match: picture vocabulary.
- Thankful Sentence Builder: building sentences.
Are Bright Minds Club's Thanksgiving games free?
No. All 18 come with the membership, which starts with a 14-day free trial, no card needed. Five other games are free with no account: Piggy Bank Coin Counting, Which Is Worth More?, Shape Safari, Word Builder and Tick Tock Time.
Do the games teach the history of Thanksgiving?
No. They use turkeys, harvest food, pie and gratitude as the theme for math, reading and kindness practice. They aren't history lessons.
Do they work on an iPad or a Chromebook? Does my child need an account?
Yes, they work in iPad, Chromebook and laptop browsers, with nothing to download. Your child doesn't need an account. Only parents have one, and each child gets a profile under it with their own stars and progress.