Fun Thanksgiving Day Activities

I know that Thanksgiving day can pose a few challenges for my family. We have two very active young children, and we also have a nephew who will join us. I have been thinking carefully about how to structure the day so that every family member, including each child, is happy and entertained. It is difficult to strike a balance, but I think I have a few solutions.

• My nephew loves to throw balls and just about anything that looks like a ball. I am going to use that to my advantage and create a bean bag toss game. We already have bean bags that we made for A2’s birthday party. (We used mismatched socks that don’t fit the kids anymore and filled them with dried beans.) We’ll make a flat board with pictures of the foods included in a Thanksgiving meal. The kids will toss bean bags on the board. Each time the bag lands on a picture the child will collect a card with a picture of that food on it. The child will place that food card on the corresponding picture on a place mat to complete the meal. If a child has already added a particular food, s/he can give that food to another player.
• There are great Bible verse coloring pages at A Kid’s Heart that we can color together. We can also memorize a verse!
• Kaboose has Thanksgiving Day pictures to color. We’ll turn them into coloring books for each of the kids.
• All of the adults want to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. We’ll play Thanksgiving Day parade BINGO while we watch it.
• We’ll play a Thanksgiving Concentration with these cards from ABC Teach.

I hope that these ideas help you to make this Thanksgiving enjoyable for everyone!

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