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Gratitude Week For Preschoolers Featuring Bear Says Thanks

Published: Nov 4 · This post may contain affiliate links

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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.

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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
  • Gratitude Activities for Preschoolers
  • Gratitude Weekly Planner
  • More Gratitude and Thankful Activities on Pinterest
  • More Books on GRatitude to Read with Preschoolers
  • More Themed and Featured Books For Giving Thanks

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.

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Suggested Schedule for The Virtual Book Club for Kids Activity Plan for Preschoolers
Gratitude Weekly Planner featuring Bear Says Thanks

Gratitude Weekly Planner

Gratitude Weekly Planner Featuring Bear Says Thanks

Gratitude Activity Ideas for preschoolers and toddlers to go with the featured book Bear Says Thanks by Karma Wilson.

Photo Credit: rainydaymum.co.uk

Easy Thanksgiving and Fall Sensory Bin

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.

Photo Credit: stayathomeeducator.com

Gratitude Activity for Preschoolers - Stay at Home Educator

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.

Photo Credit: www.theottoolbox.com

Bear Says Thanks Activity

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.

Photo Credit: kitchenfunwithmy3sons.com

Bear Paw Cookies - Quick and Easy Soft Sugar Cookies - Huge Hit with the Kids.

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.

Photo Credit: theeducatorsspinonit.com

Handmade Turkey Chocolate Bar Wrappers

Grab your favorite chocolate bar, paper, and watercolors you can create a one of a kind handmade turkey chocolate bar wrapper that says I'm Thankful for YOU!

More Gratitude and Thankful Activities on Pinterest

We have a Gratitude and Thankful board on Pinterest where you will find even more ideas for you and your preschoolers to do. Check it out below

More Books on GRatitude to Read with Preschoolers

We love selecting the featured books for the activity plans we provide here on The Virtual Book Club for Kids however, we know that some parents like to have a few recommended books or alternatives to the featured book so we provide 3 extra's in the plan.

Here are our suggestions for more Books about Giving Thanks, Gratitude and Being Thankful for Preschoolers.

Thankful by Eileen Spinelli

Llama Llama Gives Thanks by Anna Dewdney

The Thankful Book by Todd Parr

Our theme next week is Dinosaurs and our featured book is Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems.

More Themed and Featured Books For Giving Thanks

A planned week of simple kindness activities for preschoolers. Think about kindness, do acts of kindness at home, for the animals and wider community then keep the kindness going all year round.
Kindness Week for Preschoolers
A week of gratitude themed activities for preschoolers inspired by the book The Thankful Book by Todd Parr
Alternative Gratitude Week featuring The Thankful Book

Kindness Week for Preschoolers

Gratitude Week featuring The Thankful Book

Collection of themed weeks for preschoolers with hands-on activities ideal for fall. Each week features at least 5 hands-on activities to play, create, learn and have fun. PLUS featured books and other recommended read alouds that are ideal for older toddlers and preschoolers to enjoy.
More Fall Themes and Books for Preschoolers

Looking for an alternative theme this week why not check out our Fall Themes and Books for Preschoolers for some other fantastic suggestions.

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