15 Fun Thanksgivings Games That Will Entertain Your Entire Family
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These Thanksgiving games are not just perfect for you but are perfect for your entire family. Thanksgiving games are great for kids, adults and even toddlers. Thanksgiving is a time to just switch off and have a merry old time with the family, friends and all those who truly matter. Party games aren’t just reserved for the occasion of Christmas but for any major festival you and your family might want to celebrate. In fact, you can even turn your favorite college game—beer pong into a kid friendly Thanksgiving game for the whole family to enjoy! Here are some classic Thanksgiving games to play this Thanksgiving:
1. Face The Pie
This is a fun game that involves hiding a gummy letter in a pie and making the participants find it. All you need to do is make a couple of pies filled with just whipped cream and hide the letter you want in one of the pies before you decide to freeze the pie. Then ask participants to quickly eat the pies and find the gummy letters. First person to do this wins.
2. The Thanksgiving-Pong Game
Just like you do with beer pong, you buy plastic goblets and make a Thanksgiving punch with ginger ale, pumpkin pie spice, caramel syrup and any other you choose. To play the game, players must shoot Ping Pong balls across the room and try to get as many cups as they can.
3. Floating Feathers
To play this game, each player must blow a feather into the air and keep it drifting in the air for as long as they possibly can. If you’re playing the game against your friends, you can have a competition for the person who can keep it up for the longest time. If you’re playing with your friends, you can see who can keep it up for a minute.
4. Rugby Ball Flick
To play rugby ball flick, you just need to find some mini rugby balls or soccer balls and flick them into a basket. It’s important to keep the baskets at a solid distance. All you need for this is to tape a number to each of the baskets and try to score as many points as possible before time runs out.
5. Gratitude Basket
Since Thanksgiving is all about thanks, you can try this simple exercise where you ask your kids to write down what they are grateful for this Thanksgiving and deposit it into the Gratitude basket. Then after Thanksgiving dinner, you can open the box and read out the gratitude notes.
6. Pin The Feather On The Turkey
Similar to pin the tail on the donkey, all you need to do is use construction paper, and painter’s tape to pin the feather on the turkey. Make paper cutouts in the shape of a Turkey and pin it on the turkey.
7. Pumpkin Roll
If you’re fortunate enough to be blessed with a backyard, you can spin things up by rolling a pumpkin around in your backyard. All you need to do is bring a giant pumpkin and race the pumpkin to the finish line.
8. Guess The Number Of Candy Corns
Fill a glass jar with candy corns and place it at the center of your dining table. Give each of your guests a small slip of paper and ask them to guess the amount of candy corn that is present in the jar. Whoever gets the closest guess gets to keep the entire jar.
9. Turkey Bowling
You’ve heard of bowling but have you heard of turkey bowling? Well, all you need to do is make your DIY turkey cups and turn them upside down. You’ll need some construction paper, googly eyes, and a tennis ball to knock down your DIY turkeys.
10. Pumpkin Catch
Who doesn’t love a good game of catch? Why not up the stakes by tossing around a pumpkin instead of a traditional ball? This is a fun way to toss a ball around.
11. Thanksgiving Charades
Charades is a great party game for all ages! All you need is a bunch of willing participants and some good ole’ Thanksgiving spirit. Take things up a notch by making people act out Thanksgiving dishes like cranberry sauce and pecan pie. A challenging but fun way to pump up your festivities.
12. The Thankful Letter Game
This is a pretty straightforward way to celebrate the festival. All you really need to do is state out a letter and ask your guests to state what they are thankful for with that one letter. The only catch is that you need to go around the table in alphabetical order.
13. Yam Race
This is another super fun game for the kids. All you need to do is flick around a couple of yams with a metal spoon and use some masking tape to create a finish line and end goal. The only way for players to move the Yam is to push it around with a spoon.
14. Corn In The Copia
This game will require two players to participate per team. You need to give one player on each of the teams an empty cornucopia and blindfold them. The other player who will be throwing the corn into the cornucopia will have to stand at the opposite end of the room. To play the game, each player will have to communicate with the other to make sure they get the corn into the cornucopia.
15. Mini Pumpkin Hunt
For this game, all you need is some mini pumpkins and a volunteer who isn’t participating to hide the pumpkin in various parts of your backyard. Just like an Easter scavenging hunt, you can tell your guests to go crazy and offer them dibs on some delicious food.
Thanksgiving is a fun time for the entire family, but it can get boring if fun activities aren’t happening anymore. Do tell us which of these games appeals to you the most and which one you want to try out with your family!
