Thanksgiving holiday provides opportunities to express for what and why we are thankful. It comprises bulk of history. In order to develop thanksgiving skills in children, we can use different techniques and activities. “Thanksgiving Writing prompts” is one of effective techniques to develop good understanding of thanksgiving holiday.

Thanksgiving offers a good opportunity to develop creative writing skills in children. There are many ideas to enhance the writing skills by encouraging kids to write on what is the purpose of thanksgiving holiday. Very young kids of kindergarten level can be given sentences to write e.g. “write a sentence for what you are thankful” or “write a question enquiring about thanksgiving” or “express yourself to other people what your feelings about thanksgiving are”.

Story telling is another technique to develop writing skills related to thanksgiving holiday. Story telling is very good alternative of writing skills because kids are low in motor skills.

The teacher can ask children to make a circle on the flour. The teacher can use a paper and pencil and the children are asked to add their ideas one by one to the initial sentence of the story. The teacher should write each sentence on the paper and children go on contributing their sentences until a complete story is completed.

For example, “it was thanksgiving day. Julia received a phone call from her favorite friend and……..” As far as older children of grade 6 and onwards are concerned, they can be asked to write essays on thanksgiving holiday. For example they can be asked, “Write an essay on why or why not the thanksgiving holiday is significant”. So these are the techniques by which children may enhance their writing skills as well as good understanding of the thanksgiving holiday.