🦃 Thanksgiving Lapbook Activity

Compare & Contrast the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags

This high-interest Thanksgiving Lapbook is perfect for elementary classrooms! Lapbooks are a hands-on, interactive way to engage students in meaningful learning — and they’re ideal for differentiation across grade levels.

Students will explore the history of the First Thanksgiving while building skills in:

✔ Compare and Contrast

✔ Vocabulary Development

✔ Informational Writing

✔ Reading Comprehension

✔ Critical Thinking

📂 What’s Included

This resource contains 11 interactive templates with updated clipart. Each template includes photo examples to guide students, while still allowing room for creativity and personalization.

📝 Templates Include:

• Cover Page (Color & Black and White)
• Vocabulary with Pumpkins
• Describe the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags
• Daily Life of the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags
• Compare Clothing and Food
• The Mayflower
• My Favorite Thanksgiving
• “I Am Thankful For…” (Feather Writing Activity)
• If I Were a Pilgrim Writing Prompt

🎯 Why Teachers Love Lapbooks

✔ Perfect for social studies integration

✔ Great for literacy centers

✔ Easy differentiation for multiple grade levels

✔ Encourages creativity and ownership

✔ Ideal for classroom displays or gallery walks

Students can design their lapbooks in their own unique way — making each project meaningful and memorable.

💬 What Teachers Are Saying

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“Simply amazing! I plan to use this with the Scholastic website… Cannot wait to use them. Thank you for an amazing resource!”

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“Fun, creative, yet meaningful way to learn facts about The First Thanksgiving. My students had so much fun making this.”

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“My 2nd grade students loved this! We created the lapbook, then had a gallery walk around the classroom. Great resource!”

Make your Thanksgiving unit interactive, meaningful, and memorable with this engaging lapbook activity! 🧡