5 Fun Thanksgiving Games For Children

Check out all these great ideas for fun Thanksgiving games for children! These are great for family gatherings and also to help pass the time waiting for dinner and guests!

How to play

• This is a bit messy, but well worth it to see relatives young and old playing together!
• Set out bowls full of popcorn at one end of the room and empty bowls at another.
• Teams must transport the popcorn from full bowl to empty, using a measuring cup.

5 Fun Thanksgiving Games For Children

Materials Needed:

• Popcorn
• Measuring cup

How to play

• Instead of saying "warmer...cooler" you gobble?
• One player is the decoration and the others are helpers. The hunter leaves the room. The helpers hide a small toy turkey.
• The hunter returns with a mission to find the turkey.
• Helpers give clues by "gobbling" like turkeys. If the hunter is not close, the helpers gobble very quietly. As the hunter gets closer, the helpers gobble more and more loudly until Mr. Turkey is found!
• Don't forget the video camera!

How to play

• Children line up into two teams behind the starting line.
• Across the room are two chairs with a Pilgrim or Native American costume on each one.
• At the starting signal, the first child on each team runs to the chair, puts on the costume, sits down and decorating "Happy Thanksgiving"!
• They then take all the items off and run back to tag the next person in line.
• Each person repeats these actions until all have had a turn. The team who finishes first is the winner.

Apple Paring Game

Kids will love the decoration of this Thanksgiving games for children and the added bonus of their efforts...a scrumptious apple pie.

Note: popcorn is a choking hazard for children under three!

Where is Mr. Turkey?

Materials Needed:

• Small toy turkey
• Video camera

How to play

• Use pieces of masking tape to make decoration footprints all over the floor.
• Start playing some music.
• Let the children pretend to be turkeys and strut decorating the room.
• When you stop the music, have the turkeys find footprints to stand on (one turkey to a footprint).
• When you start the music again, have the turkeys continue strutting around the room.

Turkey Strut

How to play

• Using the peeler (kids) or knife (adults only), see who can produce the longest unbroken strip of apple skin.
• For an added challenge, see who can produce one that is both the narrowest and longest.

Materials Needed:

• Potato peelers
• Paring knives
• Apples

Materials Needed:

• Chairs
• Pilgrim or Native American costume

Materials Needed:

• Masking tape
• Music

Popcorn Relay Race

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