🦃Thankful Together 2025 Play & Learn🦃

🍂 Get ready for a heartwarming celebration of gratitude and togetherness! 💛 In this special Thankful Together episode, families come together to create Thankful Trees and write Thankful Notes that remind us of all the little things that make life sweet. We even make our own homemade butter 🧈 and share a cozy story time with “A Coat of Many Colors” by Dolly Parton 🎶📖 — a beautiful reminder that love and kindness are what truly make us rich. 

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Gather your family, grab some craft supplies, and join the LPB Education team for hands-on fun, heartfelt moments, and simple ways to spark gratitude at home. ✨ Watch, create, and celebrate thankfulness together! ✨

Children's Books for Young Travelers

Planning to travel over the holidays? Packing a travel diary, creating a road trip activity list, and reading maps are excellent ways to prepare for fun family travel adventures! If you were packing a special “travel bag” to help make a long family car ride fun, what would you include? Toys, books, maps, and snacks are just a few ideas!

PBS KIDS Podcasts

Families can now tune into their favorite PBS KIDS series through podcasts! These podcasts will take families off the screens and even deeper into the worlds of their favorite PBS KIDS characters. Learn more about the benefits of listening to podcasts together as a family and discover new stories from "Molly of Denali," "Pinkalicious & Peterrific," "Arthur," and "Odd Squad"!

Thanksgiving and Gratitude Crafts for Kids

Be sure to check out all these Thanksgiving and Gratitude Crafts for Kids while you're home during the holidays! This year, consider practicing gratitude as a more regular routine, or adding in a new tradition or fun family craft project!🌽🦃

November Celebrations

November 1-2 is Dia de los Muertos - Looking for a fun and spooky holiday craft for the whole family? 💀 Make #DayoftheDead "Sugar Skull" refrigerator magnets that flicker and glow!

November 2 is Daylight Savings - What is your family's favorite way to spend an autumn day? 🍂 Head outside and experience fall with all of your senses! Ready to fall back an hour? 🕒 Learning about the concept of time is fun when you DIY your own clock out of paper plates! #DaylightSavings

November 4 isElection Day - It's time to head to the polls! ✅ #ElectionDay is an excellent opportunity to talk about fairness, civics, and how math is used in everyday life.

November 8 is STEM Day - Do you have a future engineer in your family? Dream up a design for a crafty suspension bridge using yarn, CDs, and towel and toilet paper rolls! #STEMDay

November 13 is World Kindness Day - Have you ever felt excluded? When you see someone who is being left out, the kindest, most compassionate thing to do is to be a friend! #WorldKindnessDay

November 27 is Thanksgiving - Not everyone views or celebrates #Thanksgiving in the same way. Here's how your family can talk about the true and accurate history of our country while giving thanks.

Practicing Gratitude and Honoring the Real Story

There is so much we can — and should — teach children about the real, unsanitized origins of Thanksgiving, and we can do so without losing our family traditions. In fact, honoring the true story can amplify and even uplift our celebrations: when we paint a fuller picture of history, we help our children build critical thinking skills, and give them a true understanding of all there is to be thankful for.

Thanksgiving Tales

Thanksgiving is about more than the turkey! Here are ten recommended books for kids ages 0-9 that celebrate sharing, community, and family. Read these stories to the children in your life to help them see what the spirit of Thanksgiving is really all about.

PBS LearningMedia -Learning at Home

Changing Season Collection: Fall - Learn about leaves, why animals squirrel away food, all about pumpkins and apples, and animals who hibernate through media clips, extension activities, articles, and crafts.

NOTE: The PDF document assets and Support Materials are also available in Spanish.

Don't forget to sign up for a FREE account for PBS LearningMedia! Here you can easily search for videos, lessons, interactives, and more by grade level and subject area.

PBS KIDS Game: Tower Builders

Build, test, and redesign! Watch as Isla and Firo play Team Hamster's PBS KIDS Game, Tower Builders, in four different ways: together, against each other, as game designers, and as free builders! Not only that, but they'll also play Tower Builders in real life! Feel free to try these methods out at home or with a friend, and have fun reaching the stars!

FAMILY NIGHT

November 1-- Tonight at 7 PM on @PBSKIDS Family Night, it's more fall fun, featuring some of your favorite PBS KIDS characters, Weather Hunters and Nature Cat!

November 8 -- Get ready for an Arthur road trip to the family farm in Rhythm and Roots of Arthur at 6 PM!

November 15 -- It's time to be thankfulwith episodes of Donkey Hodie and Carl the Collector at 7 PM!

November 22 -- Arthur and his family are getting ready for Thanksgiving! Don't miss An Arthur Thanksgiving at 6 PM!

Fun Printables for Family Movie Night:

Family Night Snack Box
Family Night Movie Tickets
Family Night Movie Marquee

Stay safe and healthy LPB families! Keep doing an amazing job with your families!

Take care, Nancy Tooraen, ntooraen@lpb.org