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Thanksgiving Party Games
Find the Real Meaning of Thanksgiving and Let the Love and Joy Flow for the Whole Holiday Season

These party games bring home the meaning of Thanksgiving in a fun and light hearted way. Recent research shows that gratitude is an important part of happiness. Let the love and joy flow for the whole holiday season when you start with light-hearted Thanksgiving fun.

These Thanksgiving party games are designed to be played in groups of 4 or more. You can easily adapt them to different numbers of people and different ages. The most important rule is to keep things positive and light. Every idea someone shares is a good and valid idea for them. Let the gratitude and good spirits be contagious.

The Thanksgiving Day Reporter
Pair up your guests, or assign a few to be reporters and interview everyone about the things they are most grateful for. Then, during or after diner, have them report on what they found. You can video interviews, or the reports for a lasting memory to bring happiness year round. Sometimes this is a good game to get older kids or teenagers involved with the rest of the guests.

Guess Who
As each guest arrives, have them write something on a small piece of paper that they are particularly grateful for. After everyone has arrived, write all the answers on a big sheet of paper, or board, or just call out the answers one by one and have people guess who gave the answer. There are lots of variations on this game. For example, you might have each guest list a person, a thing, a place and an experience they are grateful for as they walk in and go through a couple rounds of guessing at different times during the party.

Discussion Topics
Write several questions or discussion topics on small slips of paper and put them in a jar. As you pass around the Thanksgiving appetizers, also pass out a discussion topic to prompt conversation between guests. Make the questions positive and uplifting- gratitude oriented. You can also play this like a board game around the table. Just pass the jar from person to person and have each one answer the question they draw. Download our Questions for Thanksgiving Party Games Now

Alphabet Game
Go around the circle of guests. Each person says something they are grateful for, or blessed with. The first person names something that starts with A, the next person B, C, and so on until you get to Z. This one is also good for the car as you drive over the river and through the snow to grandmother's house.

Blessing Brain Storm
Divide your guests into groups of 4 or 5 and have each group come up with a list of 50 things they are grateful for. Have big sheets of paper and markers so everyone in the group can see what is on the list. Or, as a variation, give each team a limited time and see who comes up with the most things without repeating.

Cornucopia
This is one of our family's favorite Thanksgiving party games. Have a table with paper, clay, paint and other craft items and ask each guest to make something small that represents something they are grateful for over the past year. Use the completed items to fill a basket in the center of the table and have each person explain their item as they enter it. You can also have people bring things before the party if this is easier. Have string and a hole punch to turn each item into a Christmas Tree ornament that each guest can take home with them.

There are lots of variations on this theme depending on the time available, age, and craftiness of your guests. You can just have them write on a star or add a thought to a paper flower and use the flowers as a centerpiece. You can have them draw a tile or square that you put together into a mosaic, or quilt or collage. You can take pictures of the final product and send a copy home with each guest if you want.

Thanksgiving Inventory
Just like a asset list for your insurance, you can develop a Thanksgiving Inventory to help count your blessings. Download this template for a Thanksgiving Inventory now to help you get started.

We hope you enjoy these Thanksgiving Party Games. Any one of them is sure to bring a smile and maybe even a tear of joy. After all, that is the real meaning of Thanksgiving, to experience true gratitude with the ones you love and to kick off your holiday season with sincere love and joy.

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