Thanksgiving Day Activities
Thanksgiving is basically all about eating but it’s a longggg day waiting for the food especially if you eat later and/or have kids to keep occupied. To top it off, it was bad weather this year so the kids couldn’t even play outside since it rained ALLLL day. I rounded up a list of activities we did this year for adults and kiddos, plus some good ones I plan to try for the next family holiday or next Thanksgiving. Hopefully next year the parade will be back to normal which is always fun to watch with kids.
Activity 1:
Pin the hat on the turkey. I made a turkey out of construction paper ahead of time. I also cut out blank hats for the kids to decorate. Once they were done we did Pin the Hat on the Turkey, just like pin the tail on the donkey. It was like 2 activities in one since the kids loved decorating the hats too!
Activity 2:
Family Bingo. I made a Bingo board on Kraft paper and filled the squares with funny inside jokes or sayings that always happen at our family gatherings (Ex: a kid cries, an adult cries, something gets broken, etc). Put a dot on each square once it happens. Once you get a row of bingo you can do a prize (we took a drink, lol) until the whole board is completely full.
Activity 3:
Treasure Hunt! The kids loveeddd this one. I printed out a scavenger hunt from The Housewide Modern. She gives you 16 riddles and then a printable with blank spots so you can make your own treasure hunt stops.
Other Thanksgiving Day Activities To Try:
Color your Thanksgiving dinner meal!
Make fall trees with stickers and paper bags
A good use for all those extra bags you have leftover after shopping for the big day.
Assemble pre-cut out scarecrows
DIY Thanksgiving Tablescapes
Thanksgiving table scapes for cheap or free! DIY
The rest of my house might be decorated for Christmas, but Thanksgiving still needs some love! I made a couple easy DIY tablescapes for our Thanksgiving this year and added the steps to recreate them below:
Step 1: Gather all your greenery. These were all leftover peices we had from other projects, parties, etc. If you wanted to purchase any fall florals right before thanksgiving is the time. Everything is 80% off. They basically give it away.
Step 2: Measure your table and plan to give a foot of space on both ends. Add your first string of greenery in an S pattern. I stapled mine right on to a scrap peice of wood we had lying around.
Step 3: Add in a second string of greenery in an S pattern going the opposite direction. I weaved mine over and under the first one.
Step 4: Add in extra leaves. I used ones that had fallen off old florals we had and from the stems on our Christmas tree.
Step 5: Add in flowers (if you have them). This part isnt necessary since centerpeices sometimes consist of only different types of greenery, but I found a lot of extra flowers so I threw ‘em on there. Why not? I added them in where I thought the leaves looked less full or you could see some of the wood base.
VOILA!
Kids Thanksgiving Table Decor
The kids table needs a little love too!
Zero dollar kids table made from Kraft paper we had and some permanent marker!
all pictures taken and edited by: Aubrey Elle Photography