For the purposes of the resistance/immunity example in the original question:
"bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical weapons that aren't silvered"
The "weapons" portion of the example is actually sufficient to know that it does not apply against the example sources of damage, magical or not. The resistance only applies to specific damage type subcategories of weapon damage. None of the given examples are weapon attacks, so this resistance/immunity to damage from weapons does not apply to the given non-weapon examples in the question regardless of what type of damage is being done.
That said, errata has updated most (all?) instances of the given resistance/immunity example in the question to the following:
Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Silvered
(Weapons -> Attacks)
Now it's clearer that the magical status of the attack itself should be considered.
The Sage Advice compendium provides the following checklist for determining if something is considered magical (see also: How do I know if an ability is magical?)
If you cast
antimagic field, don armor of invulnerability, or use another
feature of the game that protects against magical or nonmagical
effects, you might ask yourself, “Will this protect
me against a dragon’s breath?”
[...]
Determining whether a game feature is
magical is straightforward. Ask yourself these questions
about the feature:
- Is it a magic item?
- Is it a spell? Or does it let you create the effects of a spell
that’s mentioned in its description?
- Is it a spell attack?
- Is it fueled by the use of spell slots?
- Does its description say it’s magical?
Since the question's examples are all spells or spell attacks, they fall cleanly under the umbrella of being magical. As such, thorn whip and the initial spell attack of ice knife are considered magical attacks, which clearly bypasses the errataed resistance/immunity text. Damage dealt as an effect of spell that isn't related to a spell attack roll (like the damage of earth tremor) is both magical and not from an attack, so the resistance/immunity text also doesn't apply there.
It's also worth noting that there's currently no such thing as an attack that is both a spell attack and a weapon attack, as noted in answers to a question about how to refer to non-spell attacks.
No, the damage is not magical.
From the description of the Animate Objects spell:
Choose up to ten nonmagical objects within range that are not being worn or carried
Let's say the spellcaster animates an ordinary shovel, which can then fly and slam any target. Because this object is nonmagical, there is no reason that the damage should be magical. It is basically as if the caster would throw the shovel to a target.
Also, for example, none of the animated objects from the MM p.19 does magical damage. The Animated Armor and the Rug of Smothering do normal bludgeoning damage and the Flying Sword does normal slashing damage.
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Is the exact verbiage so by RAW you cannot do this with that spell.
That being said, should your DM allow it, I don't see a difference from a PC wielding a +1 Dagger or a spell wielding it to be perfectly honest, since it is the item itself granting that bonus.