Family fun thanksgiving game

In this game, instead of passing a football, your guests will be passing a small to medium-sized pumpkin around. As possession of the football changes in the game, the pumpkin moves clockwise from player to player. Find more instructions here. A props prediction sheet is another easy activity that makes the football game more interesting to watch. You can grab a Thanksgiving Day Prop Bets sheet here , where you can print off as many copies as you need.

If you are feeling crafty, you can make up your own. Or head over to grab a traditional trivia game or a multiple-choice trivia game. Kids will have fun making their own turkey in the roll-a-turkey game. And there are so many versions out there on the web! Some of them use feathers, others strips of colored construction paper. For the simplest option, kids just color in the feathers as they get them. Another fun activity for kids is Turkey I Spy. In this game, they will have a blast rushing to count out how many of each object they can find!

Grab a free printable of Turkey I Spy here. Roll a die and then take a look at the free printable here , saying something nice about the particular item you rolled. You could also play Roll with the Gratitude , where you state something you are grateful for in whatever category you roll. Open a bag of candy and without looking draw one out, then name some you are grateful for according to one of these charts by Out Upon The Waters.

In this activity, players will write down something they are grateful for that begins with each letter of the alphabet. If you want to make it competitive, the first person to fill out their sheet wins! Print a free Gratitude A to Z printable here. In this game, players must race to eat through their whipped cream pies and find letters to unscramble. Whoever figures out the word first is the winner! Find out more from Play Party Plan. Shop For Pie Pans. See who can stack their football cups in between plates without knocking them over the fastest!

Or do a timed contest to see who can get the most stacked within a minute. Shop for Brown Cups. In this game, each person is attempting to transfer all of their pumpkin seeds to another plate in one minute or less.

Or have a head-to-head contest to see who can fill their plate the fastest. Find out full instructions over at The Chaos and The Clutter. Fill in the blanks with various words to make crazy Thanksgiving stories in this Gobble Gobble Mad Libs book. Everyone will get a kick out of playing this scavenger hunt!

Grab a phone or camera and prepare to search and shoot as you find items on the list. Find out how to play over at Party Game Ideas. Print out a This or That free printable sheet to circulate around the dinner table. Decide who starts and that person reads the first This or That question. They then explain what option and why they chose it. Next, you can find someone who prefers the second option and let them tell the reason why they prefer that one.

Then the sheet gets passed to the next guest who reads the next question and tells what option they choose and why. Continue going around the table until everyone has had at least one chance to pick.

Here is a fun activity to keep the younger ones busy, maybe while the adults are playing one of the other games. Kids will delight in dressing up these turkeys with various stickers. Print out this printable and cut each question into slips. Fold each slip of paper and put them into a large jar or container.

Pass the jar around the table while each guest picks out one slip of paper and reads their Would You Rather Question. Then discuss! There are no right or wrong answers, so encourage everyone to play! Another good activity to keep young kids busy is a coloring sheet. Print out a free Thanksgiving-themed coloring page here. It is best printed out as landscape. Children can first write out what they are thankful for and then color the border. The Seasoned Mom has a super cute and crafty version of Turkey Bowling on her page.

First, have the kids make the turkeys using brown cups and feathers or colored strips of construction paper. Then use mini pumpkins or a small football to try to knock down the cute crafty turkeys! This activity combines both a craft and a game, so another double win! These cards help bring kids into the dinnertime conversation and teach about being grateful.

This is an absolutely awesome and inexpensive game to put together! The setup is easy too. You can grab the orange cones and glow necklaces right from Dollar Tree! Another great game to play outdoors without a lot of planning and setup is a Thanksgiving Bean Bag Toss. See who can get the most points as you toss bean bags through the openings.

While outside, try a mini pumpkin hunt in your backyard! You could also write point values on the pumpkins from 1 to 5 to make it even more interesting.

Then whoever gets the most points, wins! Get everyone outside looking for Thanksgiving-themed items in this search and find from The Taylor House.

Print out an activity sheet for each player and glue them to brown paper bags. This way, when out searching for the items, everyone has somewhere to put their finds. So grab some clothespins and get ready to have a ton of fun with this one! Hopefully, you found a few good suggestions of things to do with your family this year. Have a great Thanksgiving day! Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt Game:.

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This is a great Thanksgiving game for the whole crew. Turkey Tag from Let's Get Together. Pictionary is a fun game for kids and adults of all ages, and this one is made into a Thanksgiving game by using words like "turkey," "leaf," "autumn," and "scarecrow.

You can make this as elaborate or as simple as you want to with how you decorate the slips of paper and container holding the paper words. Thanksgiving Pictionary for Kids from Purple Trail. This printable Gratitude Scavenger Hunt will have the family scrambling to find something that smells amazing, that has words on it, that makes me laugh, and so on.

This is originally meant to be a photo scavenger hunt, but it would still work wonderfully to have the guests write down their answers on the sheet. Turkey Waddle is a fun and silly Thanksgiving game that will get the family out and move. In this is a relay race, you use balloons between your legs and try to get to the finish line first.

It's sure to generate some laughs both kids and adults will love it. Turkey Waddle from Party Game Ideas. If you have trouble getting everyone off the couch, this Thanksgiving game of turkey trivia might be just what you need to get everyone involved. It's a multiple-choice trivia game all about Thanksgiving, and it even shows you a cute option for how to attach a pencil to the trivia cards.

Turkey Trivia from Alpha Mom. The children take turns rolling dice and placing a "feather" on the number that they rolled. The first person to get all their feathers on their turkey is the winner. Turkey Feathers from The Idea Room. Bloom Designs. Turkey Hunt by Bloom Designs is an active Thanksgiving game that works a little bit like a scavenger hunt. Guests will race around the yard or house to find the numbered turkeys. The first one who finds all 12 of the turkeys is the winner.

Turkey Hunt from Bloom Designs. Kids love to take pictures, and in this Thanksgiving game, they get to be in charge of the camera. The kids will be giving clues about their relatives and then take pictures of the person who matches the clue.

It's a great way to get the kids mingling, and you'll have the photos to keep forever. There are also some options to make this game even more challenging for older kids. Crazy Little Projects has designed some great Thanksgiving bingo cards that use colorful images of pilgrims, acorns, trees, pies, turkeys, and more.

Included in this free printable Thanksgiving game are eight different bingo cards and matching calling cards. You can use anything as markers for the bingo game, but candy corn would be a fun addition. Thanksgiving Bingo from Crazy Little Projects.