50 Thanksgiving Day Activities & Games for Adults & Kids with Family 2023

Best Thanksgiving Day 2023 Activities and Games (for family, adults, kids, teen ager’s, and seniors in home or schools!

Thanksgiving is a unique opportunity to plan a get-together with your family, friends and other social group and to revive the memories that make your bond with them a strong one. It is considered to be a day when you have special dinner and celebrations too. Although all these are the perfect ways to spend a holiday, there are many other fun activities too that you perform on this day. Thanksgiving Day Activities for all family members varies according to adults, kids, seniors as well as place; school or home. As the month of November arrives, people all around the world start preparing for this day and devise plans on how to spend the day and what activities to perform.

Thanksgiving Day Activities for Adults:

Here are few ideas to make your Thanksgiving day memorable. These are best games or activities for adults like you. Feel free to improvise them according to your taste and moods.

1. Walk on your favorite Destination:

After your family dinner, you could go on your favorite destination for walking or jogging with your favorite buddies and has a good conversations to enjoy your day and spend some quality time with this healthy activity. Believe me or not, this outing would be your one of the enjoyable activity on Thanksgiving Day.

 

2. Play Rugby or Football with your own rules:

Go outside with your family and friends. Play football or rugby in fresh air. You can define your own rules to play it and make this common game more personalized and full of fun.

 

 

3. Write Thanksgiving Poem on Printable Forms:

Download printable forms and distribute to your friends and family members. Ask them to write Thanking poems in their own words or write any suitable poem from the internet for you or for their best buddies. You download example thanksgiving printable below:

4. Funny Question Asking Game:

You can ask questions to each other on thanksgiving day. Download list of questions (given below) to get idea on which type of question you can ask to get amazing answers and spend good and memorable time on the event. You can also make a printable form to ask questions and at the end read all the answers in public. 😉

5. Arrange a Dance Contest

Wear your Thanksgiving day costumes and dance on beat music. Compete with each other is great idea to do on Thanksgiving Day. You can even do some parodies of your friends and family members who are there in the party with you. It will not only make them laugh but they will think that they are special for you. This is one of my favorite activity if executed well.

6. Thanksgiving Games for Adults:

Here I selected few unique games. As a teen or adult, you can play these games on thanksgiving day in groups, teams and individually which help you to spend time with your family and you can live your real life. But you should request all your game participants that make their phones and gadgets off or keep them aside for the some time and enjoy the real physical and emotional games with family members. Here we go:

Thanksgiving Day includes family, food, traditions, games and other activities. Whether you are at home or in school, you can perform these activities and enjoy your day fully. First of all the whole house or school is decorated with different Thanksgiving ideas to make the environment enjoyable and charming. You can also organize a contest in which you will assign each person of the family some area of the house and will see who wins the decorating contest by coming up with the best festive idea. The activity that goes with all the family members interest whether kids, siblings or parents, is to allow each one of them to recite a poem or a quote relating to the occasion.

Thanksgiving Day Activities for Kids:

Kids celebrate all events and enjoy more than adults. You don’t need to guide them or to give them any special activity list to enjoy thanksgiving day because they know what to do to enjoy their holiday but still if you give them some traditional celebration ideas and teach them new game, they will enjoy more and add these games in their habits. so here are few thanksgiving day activity ideas for kids.

1. Drawing Thanksgiving cards:

Drawing and coloring is very interesting and positive activity for kids. You can provide drawing kits to your child and ask them to design handmade thanksgiving cards for their parents, siblings and other friends and family members to say Thank You for all love and care. If your Kids are too small to draw then download printable Thanksgiving mickey and turkey pictures to fill the colors.

Thanksgiving greeting card ideas for Kids

Thanksgiving Color book printable for kids

2. Arrange a Play for Kids:

Create a simple script for your family kids to play after thanksgiving dinner. Kids can dance, sing a song or play a short drama or parody which is really enjoyable by adults and other family members too. Kids can perform in funny and cute thanksgiving costumes. These activities can be played in schools and kindergartens too under the supervision of art teachers or players.

3. Thanksgiving Games for Kids:

Kids can play games on the occasion of thanksgiving day. here a list of some amazing games kids could play easily at home to have fun with their family members and friends.

Thanksgiving Day Activities with Family:

Another activity that involves the whole family is taking part in preparing the Thanksgiving dinner. Each member can play his/her part that will keep the family occupied as well as help them enjoy their time together, and before they begin the dinner, there must be an exciting game for adults in which they can ask each other some questions related to Thanksgiving like what they are thankful for in life.

You can also involve your child in donation giving activity on this day and make him feel grateful for what s/he have and also raise their awareness that it is an excellent idea to take care of poor people in the hour of happiness. And how can we forget about the greeting card making contest that who so ever makes the best card accompanied with the most powerful quote or words will be the winner that will be another great fun making activity?

Play Board Games with Family:

You can play board games with your family. board games are very common and famous among people like Chess, Ludo, Checkers, game of throne and many others.

Visit for Thanksgiving Traditional Parade:

We are watch turkey and Macy’s parades on Thanksgiving Day every year. You can go outside with your family and kids to watch it live from the downtown of your city.

Biking with Family:

You can biking / cycling on the park side or on the road with your family and look around the decorations. Meet with different people and wish them Thanksgiving day. You can also cycling around the roadside and collect donation for poor kids or for any social activity with your family.