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10 Ways To Celebrate Thanksgiving With Your Family

10 Ways To Celebrate Thanksgiving With Your Family
Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate with your family. It is a time to be thankful for all that you have. Everyone has different ways of celebrating Thanksgiving. Some prefer to have a quieter dinner with just their family, some invite other relatives or friends, while some plan to go to someone’s else’s home. These are some innovative ways in which you can celebrate Thanksgiving with your family this year.

1. Watch football on TV

Everyone loves to watch a frenzied football match on Thanksgiving day. So gather your family around, sit on the couch and enjoy a football match on TV. Let everyone roar with joy when a goal is scored and soak in the happy vibes!

2. Organize a football match

Not much interested in passive TV watching? You could head out to your backyard and play a football match with your family instead! If your family and you are not quite passionate about football, you may try your hands at any other outdoor sport like volleyball or something that can be enjoyed by everyone. This is also a great way to make space in everyone’s tummy for the fabulous Thanksgiving dinner ahead.

3. Attend a local Thanksgiving parade

Thanksgiving parades are very famous in the US. If you have a parade nearby, why don’t you and your family go attend that parade? If you don’t have the time to do that, you can as well watch Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade on TV which is broadcasted from New York.

4. Play a gratitude game

Now, this is another fun way to be thankful on Thanksgiving! Let’s provide you with an example. This is called the A-Z gratitude game. Start with the first letter of the alphabet ‘A’ and tell a family member to say one thing/person he/she is grateful for, that starts with A. It can be, “I’m grateful to Anne.” The next person will say, “I’m grateful to my brother Cary.” You get the gist? This game will go on till you reach Z.

5. Plan a gratitude box

You will need to prepare a cardboard or plastic box or re-use an old one. From the 1st of November, tell your family members to write down something that they are grateful for each day and then put it into that box. On Thanksgiving, you can read aloud what everyone’s grateful for. If there are other relatives or friends coming over to your place, you can also include them to write things they are grateful for.

6. Visit an orphanage/old age home

Thanksgiving is all about expressing your gratitude to God and those close to you. But what about people who have no family, friends or relatives? You and your family can make someone else’s Thanksgiving special by visiting an orphanage and taking some homemade goodies for the children. You can also spend some time with the elderly and take a meal for them.

7. Donate

There is nothing better than the joy of giving. You can also help someone in need by donating clothes, money, food, toys or anything that would be useful to someone else. Tell all your family members to contribute.

8. Encourage your children to contribute

Your children should also learn to help others early on in their childhood. Thus, you need to encourage them to help others too. Take them along with you to the orphanage and tell them to give their toys to children there. But explain them why you are doing so. It would be useless to see them grumble and give their clothes or toys to other children. Make them realize why this is important.

9. Make a chronicle

This is just like making a scrapbook. Collect all your family member’s photos from last year and dedicate one page to each family member on the scrapbook. Your family can then write their thoughts about each family member and why they are thankful to him/her.

10. Read about the history of Thanksgiving

What’s the point of celebrating Thanksgiving every year with much pomp and grandeur, if you don’t know the purpose behind it’s beginning? Hence, collect some articles and read about the history and real meaning of Thanksgiving to your family.
These are some ways in which you can celebrate Thanksgiving with your family.
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