Thanksgiving is a family festival when you spend your holidays with your family and friends and celebrate this event with them. Adults can have conversations with each other and have fun with each other but children need something more to celebrate this festival.
Whether you are hosting a thanksgiving dinner or a fun-filled birthday celebration on thanksgiving event, there are various ideas to make your party full of fun for children.
This article will guide you how you can make this Thanksgiving special and full of fun for children by themed decorations, crafts and various fun activities.
How to make Thanksgiving special for kids?
You can arrange kids related activities and fun in thanksgiving holidays to make this festival exciting and memorable for kids. Here are some ideas:
Decorate for fun:
Make these holidays and thanksgiving dinner more exciting and fun for children with thanksgiving themes decorations. You can make the kids make decorations with you for Thanksgiving dinner.
You can let your children give the greeting cards to elders and to each other.
Arranging the table-tops:
Arranging the table-tops on their respective position is a fun activity for children. You can tell the kids to place the table-tops for everyone in front of their chairs on the dinner table.
This will also help your children to know about their elders more.
Organising thanksgiving games and activities.
You can make this thanksgiving a fun festival by arranging such games at your dinner which are full of entertainment and fun for children. You can arrange greeting cards and family photos with some quote written on it and let children make greeting cards and let them write quotes on their photos for themselves and elders.
You can also arrange scavenger hunts based on thanksgiving themes for children. In this hunt children will find small items hidden in the yard or in the house.
How to throw a fun thanksgiving party?
If you want to throw a thanksgiving party that is full of fun and entertainment for children and adults as well, you need to make creative and beautiful decorations. Some ideas for such creative decorations are:
Invitation with a thanksgiving twist:
Thanksgiving is a once-a-year celebration so start our celebrations with invitations and greeting cards with a thanksgiving twist. You can customise your cards or buy prepared ones.
You can make your children make their own cards by using acrylic paints and poster cards. Children will love to use poster cards and paints and make unique and beautiful cards.
Themed decorations;
You can make themed decorations using poster cards, A-frames, canvas rolls and canvas wraps having cute thanksgiving designs like pumpkins, turkey or autumn leaves.
You can use this idea for indoor and outdoor parties to have a warm, cosy and festive look. You can hand festive artworks made by kids on the walls of the dinner room and home.
Thanksgiving themed costumes:
You can also arrange thanksgiving theme costumes for Thanksgiving dinner. You can either buy youth T-shirts or customise them for children. If you want to have a more festive vibe and make it fun for children, you can arrange a costume counter for children where they can paint their favourite art on youth T-shirts.
You can make photos of these moments and let it photoframe for later use.
Games and entertainment:
You can arrange indoor and outdoor games for children. For outdoor games, you can arrange a snack race or turkey themed relay race. While for indoor games, you can arrange an art and craft portion where children can make art using acrylic paints, canvas rolls, A-frames and canvas wraps.
How to make a Thanksgiving birthday special?
You can make thanksgiving birthday special by following ideas:
Costumes for children:
You can arrange costumes for kids and children if you are hosting a thanksgiving birthday party. You can buy or customise the same T-shirts or sweatshirts for all kids.
You can either let them wear sweatshirts or hoodies with jeans or T-shirts having autumn or fall prints on them. You can also wear them with autumn themed striped shirts.
Thanksgiving birthday cakes:
You can design a birthday cake with autumn coloured icing and various autumn and thanksgiving theme toppings and decorations. You can let kids decorate the cake with toppings. They will make the cake more artistic and it will be a fun activity for them.
Themed Party:
You can arrange a thanksgiving themed party for kids with thanksgiving decorations. You can hang A-frames or canvas on the walls of your home having autumn designs and arts.
You can also place table tops on the table where the cake cutting ceremony will take place. You can also place frames having kids' pictures to make your party beautiful and artistic.
Thankful moments:
You can let the birthday child say thanks to everyone for making his birthday special for decorating his home and for participating in his birthday party. It is the sweetest and the most easy way to make your kids learn how to say thanks to others and how to be thankful to others. In this way your kids will learn about gratitude as well.
How to entertain the kids at a thanksgiving party?
You can entertain children at thanksgiving party by following ideas:
Art and craft station:
You can arrange an art and craft station in your party for children where they can design their own arts according to their taste. Let them paint on the poster cards, canvas, and frames using acrylic paints.
Later you can arrange an exhibition to appreciate your children and their art.
Interactive games:
You can arrange interactive games for kids relating to thanksgiving themes. You can let them decorate pumpkins according to the birthday theme.
They can also play hide and seek, snake and ladder or turkey bowling using soft balls or empty bottles.
Storytime and videos:
You can also tell tale stories or family stories to the kids to entertain them. You can read them stories from story books or elders can tell them their life incidents in the form of stories.
You can also make fun videos of your children and save them for later use. You can also make a set-up for an animated movie show which kids would love to watch.
Perfect thanksgiving menu:
You can make Thanksgiving food for children according to their taste. There are a variety of foods that you can make for your kids and they would love them. You can make the mini turkey sandwiches using cranberries sauce, cheese, turkey and bread. Most kids don't like turkey but they will eat it in this way easily.
Mac and cheese is a favourite dish of almost every kid. You can serve your kids mac and cheese which they would love a lot. In the desert, pies and cupcakes are their favourite. You can make a pumpkin pie or pumpkin cupcakes for them as a desert and serve them.
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