Create Shared Experiences & Thankfulness!

Games are not only fun, they create bonding through shared experiences. Whether you're gathering with family or your church group, these can add an additional element nurturing gratitude and pointing to God's goodness.

These 7 DIY games include:

1. Thanksgiving Things—A few years ago, one of our sons introduced us to a game called “The Game of Things”; we made our own with homemade questions on index cards. This could easily become a Thanksgiving game of Things! All you’ll need are index cards, pens, slips of paper and people!

2. Thanksgiving Name 5—Thanksgiving games of quick thinking can be competitive or used as a fun group activity to celebrate Thanksgiving. You have ten seconds to name five things having to do with a certain category.

3. I Spy Thanksgiving—Play this game just like the normal game, but looking for things for which we can be thankful - “I Spy with my little eye something that is blue for which I thank God." You could even incorporate other adjectives for a little variety – “something wet”, “something tall”, “ something noisy”, etc.! This could be done in any setting—classroom or Thanksgiving dinner table with no set up or needed items!

4. Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt—Our family has always loved the challenge of a scavenger hunt. Thanksgiving is of course a time we focus on being thankful. This is a fun way to have kids (as well as adults) be creative in their thinking of the many things for which we should give thanks for to God.

5. Memory Game—When I was younger I loved games like this, but now that I'm older it is so much harder that I feel at a major disadvantage! There are many ways to present this game. You can place many Thanksgiving items on a cookie tray. Let everyone look at it for about a minute and then remove it from sight.

6. Thanksgiving Scattegories—Be quick to come up with things for which you're thankful within a variety of categories.

7. The Gratitude Game—Use colored sticks to play a familiar game of Pick-up-sticks. Each color gives prompts for various things for which we can be thankful.

Full instructions and several printables for these games to enhance your Thanksgiving gathering and promote praise to our Father are available HERE!


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