Only one more day until Thanksgiving! Wow, this month has just flown by. As many of us are baking pies, mashing potatoes, and stuffing turkeys tomorrow, let us not forgot to bring the “thanks” into our Thanksgiving celebration. The following are some fun ideas to make THANKS our priority for the day:
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Prepare a Thanksgiving offering to give to a needy family or one of your
favorite charities or work at a soup kitchen for a few hours.
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Put on your own Thanksgiving Day parade or "pilgrim play" with
family or friends, acting out reasons why you are thankful.
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Write a Thanksgiving prayer or poem as a family and share it before dinner.
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Make a festive “giving thanks” centerpiece for your table. Have everyone
write what they are thankful for on pieces of paper shaped likes leaves,
feathers, pumpkins, or apples. Then place the thankful cards into the
centerpiece.
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Write a sincere note of gratitude to the members of
your family or friends attending the dinner.
Place the note next to their plate or simply hand it to them and tell
them “thank you”.
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Make thankful wine glass tags. Cut out leaf-shapes onto
fall-color papers and punch a hole at the base of each leaf. Ask guests to pick
a leaf and write a word or short phrase describing something they're thankful
for. Attach leaves to the wineglass stems using ribbon or raffia or twist ties.
This activity also ensures that guests don’t get their wine glasses mixed
up.
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Give everyone in the family a large piece of paper and ask them to decorate
their own placemat, writing all of the reasons why they are grateful this
Thanksgiving.
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Go around the Thanksgiving table during dinner and ask everyone to express
several reasons why they are grateful. Make sure that everyone gets to speak
and that everyone else listens.
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Pass out cards to everyone and have them write down one or two things that
they are thankful for. Then collect the
cards and put them in a bowl. Pass the
bowl around and have someone draw out a card and read it out load, and then try
to guess who wrote it. Pass the bowl until everyone’s card has been read and
guessed. It’s a fun way to get the
entire table involved in giving and guessing gratitude.
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Ask everyone
to recall a past favorite Thanksgiving memory.
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Give a
heartfelt hug of gratitude to the person or people who prepared your wonderful meal!
I pray that all of you have a truly blessed Thanksgiving celebration tomorrow and that amidst the turkey, cranberry sauce, and mashed potatoes, we can all take time to both give and live out our thankfulness.
Your thankful friend,
Amy
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