5.2k
Veterans Day celebrated every November 11 is an opportunity for your class to respect real-life heroes, understand the meaning of service, and have fun in hands-on activities. Explore multiple ways to commemorate Veterans Day and some holiday resources to help you plan meaningful and engaging courses that cover gratitude, service, and patriotism.
Creative crafts that bring Veterans Day to the forefront
Veterans Day is a time to commemorate those who served in the U.S. military. Handicrafts inspired by memorials and gratitude bring this spirit into the classroom. Students can make heartfelt thank you cards for local veterans or handicrafted poppies to share at home. With so much creativity, your class will surely find an inspirational project.
Veterans Day Crafts
Created by TNB
Results: K-6th
The seven-page craft takes about an hour to complete and includes a picture for students to color and space for writing. Once done, they can cut out the pieces and assemble them to create a meaningful bulletin board display.
Patriot shock dashboard | Nice’s crafts event on September 11
Art with Jenny
Results: No. 3 to No. 8
agamographs are images that vary according to the angle you view them, and this resource provides several options. It features American and Canadian designs including the September 11 soldiers, flags and memorial themes.
Veterans Day Crafts in English and Spanish Manualidad deldíade los veteranos
By bilingual scrapbooking
Results: K-2nd
The resources are both available in English and Spanish, allowing students to create boats of pants and boots, explore pages about different branches of the military, or participate in writing tips. They can even write thank you cards to veterans.
Inspire young people’s thoughts with Veterans Day Book
Stories are a great way to connect children to Veterans Day. You may read Poppy Lady By Barbara E. Walsh or wall Go to Eve’s colorful flag and let the students introduce history. They can then create their own Veterans Day book. In addition to being pleasant, these activities encourage meaningful discussions and deepen their understanding of the day.
Brave Veterans Day Voting and Elections in America
Reagan Tunstall
Results: K-2nd
Celebrate Veterans Day and Election Day by creating LapBook. This resource includes everything you need, from American Flag Craft Books to Veterans Thank You Paper. This is a great addition to the social studies course.
Veterans Day Activities and Books
Nikki and Nacho
Level: K-1
Teachers can access a Veterans Daily, which helps children celebrate and learn about the holidays. Along with the mini book, this resource also includes worksheets and graphic organizers with understanding questions to help build reading fluency and understanding. It is available in English and Spanish.
Thank you for the Veterans Day writing event
Basic Veterans Day activities are more than just understanding history. You can also gain insight into what gratitude is and how to express it. Writing activities provide students with the opportunity to express their appreciation, while practicing grammar, sentence structure and writing skills. They can write letters to veterans in the community, or thank one of the veterans in the family for their notes, allowing them to practice the best brushwork.
Veterans Day Activities – Fact Hunting, Graffiti Charts and Poetry Writing
Teaching through brainwave
Results: Fourth to Seventh
The opportunity to practice writing and learn interesting facts about Veterans Day is the central stage of this resource. In addition to the fun fact hunting, the kids also created acrobatic poems about Veterans’ Day. Resources also include detailed lesson plans, fact cards, soldier poetry templates, and answer keys that make planning easy.
Commemorate Veterans Day with interactive slideshows
A simple interactive slide focuses on the people we respect – our veterans. This is a great way to spark classroom discussion and perfectly serve as a low-key option for substitute teachers.
Interactive Google Slideshow for Veterans Day
to first grade hips
Results: 1st-2nd
Get children involved in interactive Google slideshows to make learning Veterans’ Day fun. They will discover what a veteran is, and what the armed forces will take a step further by designing thank you posters and writing down what they have learned.
American Veterans Day Reading Activities Announcement Board Thank You Card Letter
Little ladybug shop
Results: Third place
Use PowerPoint speech to teach all about Veterans Day, which covers origins, history, reasons behind the celebrations and famous veterans. The resources also include a translation book where students can write to veterans and read articles about veterans. Plus, you’ll get an answer key and a title to make Flipbook a breeze.
Plan for extended learning throughout Veterans Day unit
Having various activities on hand can help you continue for weeks or even months on the day you teach Veterans Day. These range from simple flag ships to making your own dog tags. Celebrate the importance of veteran service while staying age-appropriate.
Veterans Day Events
By Latoya Reed
Results: K-2nd
This bundle contains a variety of engaging and fun activities for Veterans Day. The teacher received 48 pages containing instructions and activities, including word searches, bubble maps, Venn maps, write letters and pages, foldable thank you cards, etc.
Veterans Day Activity Worksheet and Word Wall
By Fishyrobb
Level: Second place
These printable resources include Veterans Day access, reflection table, “Interview Veterans” questionnaire, thank you coloring pages, and more. The easy-to-use 18-page PDF is great for carrying around, while digital activities provide a bit of quiet time to pause and reflect.
Quick and easy Veterans Day for children
Celebrating Veterans Day does not require careful planning or hours of preparation. These activities only require a little construction paper, some glue and a lot of enthusiasm. You can combine them with slideshows or videos to add more history or explanations to your course.
- Create a thank you chain: Give each student a note to write why they thank the veterans. Link the strips together to create chains that can be displayed in the classroom.
- Organize Digital Veterans Day Seddorf Hunting: Create a list of key symbols related to Veterans Day (e.g., flags, soldiers, boots) and have students visit designated websites to find each item.
- Design Veterans Day Blackout Poem: Provide students with articles about Veterans’ Day. Let them paint lightened words to reveal a meaningful poem about the holiday.
- Decorate the stars with gratitude: The students cut out the paper stars and wrote thanks on it. Show the stars on the bulletin board to create a wall of gratitude.
- Personalized Hero Badge: Build paper and coloring supplies for students to design personalized hero badges that honor veterans.
- Production service cap: Use construction paper to make hats representing different branches of the army.
- Celebrating my hero: Students draw a photo and write a short article about veterans they admire, past or present.
- Host Veterans Day dance: Play patriotic music and have students dance and sing to celebrate veterans.
- Veterans’ Day Colors: Spread out veterans-themed coloring pages and decorate rooms or lockers with them.
Government resources on Veterans Day teaching
Depending on your age group, discussing Child Veterans Day can be challenging. Lower elementary school students will need to focus more on veterans and introductory history courses. Advanced elementary school students have a deeper understanding that allows you to go beyond the basics into your personal story.
For any era, first define what a veteran is and possibly introduce the various branches of the army through slides. You can even realize this topic by reading picture books to inspire discussions, or show educational videos for superior primary school students. The goal is to connect today’s students with people we respect.
If you are not sure where to start, these resources can help you come up with tips, activities, and even use a booked lesson plan:
- Congressional Medal of Honor: Provides a free lesson plan on integrity, commitment, patriotism and sacrifice.
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: covers history of Veterans Day, War, classroom activities, and sample lesson plans.
- National Education Association: Contains activities, background information, videos and children’s literature for grades K-5.
- Wounded Warrior Project: Visit Save their courage Programming has interactive lesson plans, activities and videos (registration is required).
- Library of Congress: Realize history with the primary source and personal stories of veterans.
Plan an unforgettable Veterans Day for children with TPT
Veterans’ Day was spent for the children by inspiring conversations about patriotism, gratitude, and sacrifices made for our freedom. No matter which theme you choose, whether it’s respecting heroes by creating military hats or creating thank you cards, students’ Veterans Day resources are here to guide your plans. Make learning meaningful and fun while helping kids understand why the day is really important.
