Thanksgiving Theme Ideas

Turkey Day!
Thanksgiving traditions include the parade, football and great food. Make clean up easy with our selection of sturdy paper plates. Decorate with Pilgrims and enjoy your family and friends.


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Fall Parties, Thanksgiving, Autumn Get togethers

Fall Celebration Ideas

Autumn is all about feeling cozy. The leaves are falling outside, the fires are crackling inside, turkeys are roasting in the oven and hot chocolate beckons at every hour. This homey feeling is reflected with these parties - laden with burnt orange and jewel tones - everyone will want to gather around and celebrate, family and friends - hour after hour.

The key to pulling off a coordinated event: Evoke your theme throughout the affair. Whether that theme is as general as a season or a feeling, or as specific as a special flower, it should be the subtle thread that ties everything together. Your location, invitations, flowers, menu, cake, and favors should all cleverly reflect one common concept. Then, get as creative as you can!

For a Happy Start

Celebrate this magnificent season with an Autumn or Thanksgiving Party. Thanksgiving traditions include the parade, football and great food. As the Turkey is cooking and the Apple Pie is baking add decorations to your traditional Thanksgiving party. We have some fun tips, hints & ideas for your turkey day--scroll down & enjoy!

Keep kid's busy by having them make place cards. Provide table, paper, crayons or markers, scissors, glue, etc. You could also use this Scarecrow Cutout to have the kids play pin the nose on the scarecrow. You will also need a bandana for a blindfold, tape, and some hearts cut out about the same size as the scarecrow's nose. Then wind the kids up and let them go. Make sure to have a couple of cute fall prizes for the winners

Make clean up easy with our selection of sturdy fall and Thanksgiving patterned paper plates.

Ever send invitations? No matter how predestined the time, date and place, they lend a party air. Find the perfect Thanksgiving Invite at Carlson Craft

It's time to eat turkey
and yams
and cranberries too
just like the Pilgrims
used to do!
Join us for a
Thanksgiving Day Feast
on DAY
at TIME
ADDRESS
Come and stuff yourself!

HOSTS

Some Trimmings

Invite one "outsider" each year.
Have a group photo taken each year.
Pack a few small baskets of extras--deliver where they'll be appreciated.

Table Top Tips:

Decorate your Thanksgiving table with beautiful turkey paper goods. The "accessories" on a dining table can enhance the eating experience, an artistically dressed table is always nice to behold.

For a simple and inexpensive place card idea use small gourds or pumpkins and write the persons name or initials on the gourd with a pencil then trace over it with a permanent marker.

For a simple and inexpensive table decoration, Break the stem off each gourd or pumpkin and carve out a hole in the top to hold a taper candle. For a more elegant look use candlesticks that you have and press the gourd on the candlesticks spike and then insert the candle. (Country Living Oct. 2003)

Pumpkins, Autumn Cornstalks, Fruits & Veggie Abound!

Fall Flower Arrangements & Centerpieces Good Enough to Eat

Adding fruits and vegetables to clear glass containers brings another colorful--and inexpensive--dimension to flower arrangements. Put together a fall arrangement by filling a tall glass cylinder with fruits & vegetables. Fill with water, then add colorful fall flowers like Mums. Change the water daily. If you want to eat the veggies in the vase, you must do it that day. Otherwise, they won't be any good. When using citrus fruits in arrangements, be sure the pretty center of the fruit is visible by pressing the cut side against the glass. Baby artichokes, cranberries, limes, kiwis, berries, sugar-snap peas, whole peas, potatoes and nearly every other type of vegetable looks beautiful in the vase water.

Frosted Fruit: Dip red apples, pears, lemons, oranges and assorted grapes into egg whites beaten until frothy; then dip into graduated sugar. Let sit on rack, over waxed paper, until dry. Arrange in compote, with laurel or lemon leaves.

Grapes, Wheat: Lay sheaves of wheat down center of table; top with grapes & nuts.

Oranges, Lemons and Limes: Fill bowl with crushed chicken wire, then with green leaves. Cut wooden dowels 12" to 15" long; insert among leaves; put oranges, lemons and limes on end of each stick.

Autumn Cornstalks are a perfect accent for your Autumn and Thanksgiving gatherings

Add a traditional harvest look to your home with Pumpkins & Gourds. Leaves can add color to your fall decor.

Use Pumpkin Pie Scented Votive Candles. Place one at each place setting for a special guest favor.

Turkey Plus

After grace, the oldest member of the family purposes a toast to a new arrival; to John, home from college or Sue, starting a new business.

Serve the bird with fanfare: Circle the table with it before you set it before the host.
Make a ceremony of breaking the wishbone.
Feature a flaming dessert.
How about 3 cheers for the cook (s).
While grownups sit at the table & reminisce, draft helpers to wash dishes.

Banishing After-Dinner Doldrums

Declare a siesta for those who desire uninterrupted snoozing. The others can take a walk in the autumn air.

Tune in on a football game or go to a local game. Whisk our of hiding chrysanthemum corsages for all the ladies.
Look up the best bets on TV, so special programs aren't overlooked.
Have a punch bowl ready for after-dinner open house guests.