Gratitude Week Activity Plan for Preschool Featuring Bear Says Thanks

With fall in full swing, we are focusing on giving thanks and gratitude with our first weekly theme for November this year. So we have a week of Gratitude activities for preschoolers and featuring a favourite author Karma Wilson and the fabulous book Bear Says Thanks. So here we go our Gratitude Week for Preschoolers featuring Bear Says Thanks.

gratitude week activities for preschoolers featuring Bear Says Thanks — Activity Plan from the Virtual Book Club for Kids for a Week of Fun inspired by Bear Says Thanks

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Virtual Book Club for Kids Featured Book Bear Says Thanks by Karma Wilson

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This week’s featured book is by Karma Wilson and is ideal to read in November with your preschoolers as you lead up to Thanksgiving. The book is Bear Says Thanks, a sweet illustrated story featuring Bear and his friends.

In the story, bear wants to say thanks to his friends and has a brilliant idea to cook them all a delicious dinner. But, when he looks his cupboards are empty! Don’t worry though, this is a story of friendship and thanks and everything comes together at the end perfectly.

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Gratitude Activities for Preschoolers

Our weekly plan is focusing on thanks and gratitude for preschoolers. We’ve tried to find the best simple and easy activities for you to do together to play, create and learn with your little ones whilst having fun and reading along with our featured book.

If you would like to work this activity plan to a schedule then we have 1 suggested schedule below where each activity falls on a different day.

We suggest using the Sensory Activity on a Monday as usually this is something that can be used time and time again during the week.

structured weekly schedule for the virtual book club for kids — Suggested Schedule for The Virtual Book Club for Kids Activity Plan for Preschoolers

Sensory Activity for Gratitude Week with Preschoolers

This week’s activity is a sensory bin with conversation prompts that you and your preschooler can put together and then use to talk about the things that you are thankful for during the week.

Alphabet/Writing Activity for Bear Says Thanks

Our alphabet activity is a letter/word craft and activity as we make a Gratitude Garland and help your preschooler to write the things that they are grateful onto the garland.

Thankful Math Activity for Gratitude Week with Preschoolers

We’re going to create our own numbers as we count our blessings with this Gratitude Math Activity this week. These numbers are then an ideal resource for you and your preschooler to use when working on number recognition in the future.

Bear Snack for Giving Thanks to Others

Our cooking activity this week is to make some cookies that we can then share with friends and family saying Thanks to them like the bear in the story. These Bear Paw Cookies are easy to make and taste delicious.