Thanksgiving Family Friendly Games
It’s Thanksgiving day and the whole family is stuffed from eating the fabulous feast that you had prepared……now what???? I know, you have to watch a little football but if you are like me, I hate sitting there and staring at each other sleeping on the couch. Now it’s time to make some memories.
Here is a list of super simple games that any age can participate in and it will be the Thanksgiving that will go down in the books as “Phenomenal”!
Thanksgiving Family Friendly Games
1. Cranberry race: Each player will need a needle threaded with an 12 inch strong thread. Make sure to put a know at the end. Each player will have a bowl full of cranberries and when you say “go” everyone starts to string the cranberries onto their thread. The first one to fill their string is the winner! You can tie the strings outside in the tree to give the birds a treat!
2. Michael Angelo turkey: Give each player a piece of paper and then they will try to tear the paper into the shape of a turkey, while holding the paper behind their backs!
3. Blue ribbon turkey: How well can you draw a turkey while holding the crayon with your toes?
4. Thanksgiving memory game: On a large tray place several objects that pertain to Thanksgiving. Show everyone the tray and then take it away and remove one item. Bring it back and see who can tell you what is missing. If they can’t, they are out! Repeat steps until you have a winner.
5. Count your blessings: Giving each player a stack of paper and then setting a timer, see who can write down the most blessings without repeating the same one.
6. Corn Pitching: You will need dry or plastic cobs of corn and baskets. Place the baskets across the room and see how many cobs of corn each player can get into the basket in 1 minute.
7. Turkey hunt: Hide pictures of turkeys all over the house. When you say “go” see how many turkeys can be found!
8. Pumpkin roll: You will need to 2 pumpkins and 2 sticks. The racers will line up on the starting line with the pumpkins and sticks in hand. The object of the game, is to get the pumpkin across the finish line first. No using hands or feet to navigate the pumpkin.
9. Turkey calling contest: See who is the best turkey! You can give each person a prize with a fun distinction: “cutest turkey”, “loudest”, “most likely to be spared”, etc..
10. Pumpkin head: Divide the group into pairs and give each pair a mini pumpkin. The team then needs to put the mini pumpkin in between their foreheads. The leader of the game will give commands like “jump” “walk” “dance”, etc.. The team needs to fulfill these commands without dropping the pumpkin. Last team standing, wins!
11. Pillowcase races: Let the kids race as they hop and gobble to the finish line. Trust me, they will love this!
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I want to come to your house! Seriously this is great. We will have to try some of these.
These seem like so much fun! Thank you for always linking up and your continued support at Pin worthy Wednesday! This has been pinned.
I dislike sitting around for hours after 'the meal' too! I really like the sound of the memory game and the count your blessings game! Happy Early Thanksgiving!
Hello, This was so cute! I think we all need a little incentive to move it, move it!
Happy Thanksgiving to you ladies! Did Pin the this post…
Blessings, Roxy
Thank you!
love this idea so many great ideas perfect for a family thanksgiving
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Kimberly,
Thanks so much for stopping by!!
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Deb
These are such fun ideas! I especially like #2 and #10. Pinning from the Bloggers Brags Party…
What great ideas!! So glad I found you on bloggers brag pinterest party!!
Super cute!!! I pinned this to the Autumn Abundance group board 😉
I cannot wait to try some of these this Thanksgiving.
XOXO
So fun! We also do an archery shoot at our house. All 7of us are archers, so we take our left over pumpkins out back, create some shoot the turkey posters with balloons and have ourselves a regular archery competition! Too much fun!
That is so cool!
My boys will love these! Featuring Friday!
Thank you!
I wish we had enough kids in the family to play these, but we just have one teenager and two 12-year-olds, and I doubt the adults would get on board with it. Going to pin it & share on FB though so that others can enjoy the fun!
So many great ideas! The kids at our get together would love some of these! Thanks for sharing.
Tiffany
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I'm so glad!
These are wonderful ideas! Thank you so much for sharing them at Grace at Home. I'm featuring you this week!
I saw you on Motivation Monday! Thanks for the great ideas!!
Toni
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I love these! I totally agree with not wanting to sit around and watch football/watching said "football watchers" dozing off on the couch! lol Thanks for sharing!
These sound like SO MUCH FUN!!! I am forcing my family to do some of these this year! I love it!
All these great Thanks Giving ideas! It makes me wish we celebrated it here.
These sound like a lot of fun, thanksgiving sounds great. Thanks for sharing at Good Morning Mondays, blessings.
Thanks for sharing! I have pinned this to the Bloggers Brags Pinterest Board.
Love these, such great fun, thanks for sharing at Good Morning Mondays. Blessings
These are all fun ideas!!
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Great ideas! I'm so excited for Thanksgiving this year. We'll be adding a few of these games to the day. Thanks for sharing with us at the Merry Monday Link Party! Hope to see you again on Sunday night!