Turkey Movement Book & Cards | Brain Breaks Gross Motor | SPED Autism PreK

Get those turkey-day wiggles out with movement! This Thanksgiving Movement Book (and Cards!) has students walking, flapping, bobbing, and shaking their tail feathers like turkeys — building gross motor, motor planning, following directions, and imitation skills. Use it for movement breaks, brain breaks, circle time, or those wiggly in-between moments. The teacher reads and models while students imitate — or students pick a movement card and act it out!

📦 What's Included

• A Thanksgiving / turkey movement book with action prompts
• A set of turkey movement cards
• Print, laminate, and bind/cut for repeated use

📚 How to Use

• The teacher reads the book and models the movements while students imitate
• Students can choose a movement card and practice each movement
• Use during circle time, as a warm-up, or as a small group language activity
• Use as a movement break or brain break before/after transitions or to fill a few minutes
• Great for whole group, small group, 1:1, or therapy sessions

📖 Excerpt from the Book

"I can walk like a turkey, on my skinny turkey feet.

I can flap like a turkey... and move my wings to the beat.

I can bob like a turkey -- with my wobbly, wobbly head.

I can shake like a turkey and fluff my tail feathers instead!

I can peck like a turkey-- and use my beak to eat all day.

And when it is Thanksgiving, I can run and run away!"

🎯 Skills Targeted

• Gross motor development and movement
• Motor planning
• Motor imitation
• Following directions
• Self-regulation (movement and brain breaks)
• Turkey and Thanksgiving vocabulary
• Listening and attending

💛 Perfect For

• Special education and autism support classrooms
• Occupational therapy, physical therapy, and adaptive PE
• ABA programs (imitation skills)
• Speech-language therapy (following directions, vocabulary)
• Preschool, PreK, and early elementary
• Movement breaks, brain breaks, and circle time
• Thanksgiving and fall units, early childhood, ECSE, and homeschool

🌟 Why Teachers Love This Resource

• A book PLUS movement cards — flexible, two ways to use it
• Builds gross motor, motor planning, and imitation skills
• A ready-to-go movement break and circle-time activity for November
• Keeps students engaged and gets the wiggles out
• Fun turkey theme kids love
• Reusable year after year once laminated

🦃 Want music AND movement? Pair it with the If You're a Turkey and You Know It Adapted Song Book, or get the best-value Adapted Song Books Bundle.

🍁 More hands-on Thanksgiving, turkey, and fall activities:

• Hands-On Thanksgiving Activities
• Hands-On Turkey Activities
• Hands-On Fall Activities