Watch old videos of family gathering or special events old movies! It’s a Wonderful Life! Miracle on 34th Street! Or funny movies! We used to watch Macy Thanksgiving Parade while Mom was in kitchen working on the meal! Now you can have the tv in your dining room! It’s a Shame no family conversations, no joining of hands and saying Grace, and no one to pay attention to one another because of the Electronic devices!
Have a Christmas movie marathon after dinner
Have family game night. No TV or electronics.
Depending on their ages, have each person plan a game or an art activity for the day.
Ginger bread houses?
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Dress up
Use china, if you can
Have everyone say one thing they are grateful for
Play games
Hide some prizes and have a game of scavenger hunting.
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Small(8) gathering at my daughter’s house.
We usually play card games after everything is cleaned up. We have one card game that can take about 3 hours to play. Its a lot of fun.
We would play cards when my mother, oldest brother and his wife were with us. Those are long ago unfortunately. All 3 of them are gone.
Board games and cards always create fun. I just found a new puzzle too.
Card games board games does anybody play piano for Carol singing
Wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without the parade. Never miss it.
We usually make or paint ornaments
Make it game day. Get out the board games or buy a new game and play it. Scavenger hunt for a prize is fun. A gift card or something special.
make up a few plates and give them to someone who is alone
Decorate Christmas cookies, go to 5/3 ballpark and see the lights!
You could do a Christmas lights scavenger hunt go drive around and try and find all different kinds of decorations
Having my usual thanksgiving with all 3 of my family.
Go out in yard and toss a football sit in lawn chairs and raise a glass to all. Laugh and play other yard games. Just get outside breath in the crisp air and give The Glory to God for your small group of 4.
Maybe have every one make a dish themselves
Put a jigsaw puzzle together.
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We are inviting my wifes brother and his gf over. Having dinner and then doing a mashup of video games and board games.
wow what a bunch of wuzzes this countries people have become,scary to see how easy it was to scare them to death
How about playing a game? Depending on the ages of the kids something like Scrabble or Gin Rummy/
No t.v.,or hand held devices,play a board game,so much fun,
Game night bring out some of the board games you use to play, have everyone make a dish this year let them find a recipe of there own. Look thru photos of family members and remember the good.
Include everyone by saying what they are thankful for. Make it fun n do vidoes.
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Is this a trick question, so the government can see who and who’s not complying, I won’t even answer this question !!!
Is this a client of yours Rose…?
Donate a prepared meal to a senior neighbor.
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Board games or a puzzle? Cards?
I am not cancelling any damn thing and I will have my family , no one is promised a tomorrow and why live in fear with a virus of a 98% survival rate
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Include what everyone is thankful for. Make a game of it n play shrades
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Puzzle, games, movies, craft, wrap gifts, music
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We watch planes,trains,and automobiles in the evening,and play cards.and of course turkey sandwiches.
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We are doing our normal thing with family and extended as well.
This year, us four will all cook, eat and relax the day away.
I’ll be working, just like my Mom 98% of the Holidays
My best advice would be to celebrate the holidays before moving onto the next one. That typically helps it feel like more than a normal day
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Try spending the day cooking together
I’m having the normal thanksgiving feast with my family. You never know when it will be the last time you see someone so enjoy life!!
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I will ne celebrating as usual. I prefer to see my family you never know what tomorrow will bring. So dont see your loved ones but remember the last time you saw them it may be your last time.
There is a 99.97 recovery for people that are not old and sick.
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I won’t live in fear…
Take the isolation and shove it up Fausi rear end.
This may be the last holidays some family has and I will not miss them. 99.5% survival rate.
I feel so sorry for you fear mongers as your day of reckoning will come.
Family games…the best!
I feel the same way maybe uno or rumicube I am bored already caus I know they w on’t want to do it
Have everyone dress up
We have no children so we will be home for the holidays
Thanksgiving morning we have cinnamon rolls and I try to get the whole family to watch the Macy’s parade but I guess this year its canceled. You could have the kids help cook. We also watch a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and then Miracle on 34th Street.
Play at least one game together. Do a puzzle together. Watch one football game together.
We get together every year with family, eat too much, drink too much, and fight about politics and religion.
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Games are always fun
Dancing with the Turkey
Eat followed by board games. Repeat eat.
Play some games!
Pictionary is always fun
Dominos! Everyone can play.
Turn off the Wifi for the whole day and play board games…
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Watch your tons of movies of your kids through the years
Board games, make stuff
Don’t have any. No one wants to be around the black sheep of the family. Nothing to be thankful for
Just me. Kids far. covid near
Board games, yahtzee, boggle
None since my moma passed!!!
My son was born on Thanksgiving. This year it is on Thanksgiving. Our family of 5 will celebrate that
PlAy games, read togther, play dress up…etc
Break out the board games
Just me and my Hubby always.
Play board games, watch a movie, go for a walk
At my mom’s family we would sit around the dining table after the meL was over visiting and piecing on the servi g dishes until one of the aunts got up and said, “We should get out butts up, clear the table and get the dishes done or we will be snacking on these leftovers when it is time to go home.” We Ll got yo and tookeveruthing into the kitchen and those who knew what to do with the food put it away for out evening snack before desserts. All had their jobs to wash. Dey and put away the dishes if the meal. Because we usualky had 20 to 50 for a meal and sometimes more on a holiday, all the adults poylicked the sides, sakDs and desserts so my sunt and uncle didn’t need to fix all the food. They fixed the tirker or ham or Sunday fried ck
Hickens, noodkes and hi emade rolls and cinnamon rolls and any side they wanted but the rest of the meal was from all the familys coming for dinner and the teens learning to cook. After all was cleared and put away we visited and rotated in the all day Pinnacle game in the living room. The kids played in the house, later times in the downstairs bedroom added when grandma got ill and couldn’t climb the stairs. About 5 to 7 on school noghts and 7 to 9 in dummer the noodles were heated up and all leftovers set out on the kitchen table on the enclosed back porch or back room. We all got a dessert plate for an evening meal and used the same plate wiped clean for 1 or 2 of the pies or cakes and sometimes a jello dessert someone brought. After we washed abd cleared the leftovers and everyone got their dishes packed up folks started leaving. Those with kids in school left first in winter and slowly all left. My mom and aunt who fixed the rolls and noodkes were usually the last because they made sure everithing was clean and put away. In the beginning when I was young it was so grandma had things so she could get something for lunch next day because by then she sedom did much cooking and did less as she got older. My uncle lived with his parents and did much of the cooking. My mom and I cleaned the house almost every Sunday for her until grandma died and then it was done during the week. I never thought that cleani g a relatives house for them was an insult because we did it for several of the older relatives when we visited. We usually had small.kids so cleaning kept the youngest from dusting the floors with their tummys when crawling. May not listed all for my family memories but did list a lot. Now that I am the older generation and all those relatives are gone I miss those times. We have changed what we do for holidays even since mom passed in 1995.
Turn off all phones and watch a Christmas movie together.
Sheep alert! Boxcar, next?
Board games, Uno is always fun.
Have the family help.cook.
I am having Thanksgiving dinner with my family at our home where we always do. We are a family of 21. We have taken the necessary precautions through this whole ordeal and we aren’t stupid! If someone gets sick before this wonderful day arises they and most likely those they live with won’t be coming and the rest of us will miss not having them and we will pray for them and they will most likely recover as most everyone does. Pray for those in assisted living facilities who have been in lockdown since March! This thing has been very rough for them.
Well, my son is in Iraq, his wife will probably e with her family, which is as it should be. My oldest daughter family and kids are going to the other grandmas this year, so it will be just my husband, my middle daughter and me. Still cooking a big turkey and all the fixing. Good thing we all love the left overs.
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Thanksgiving is usually just me and my husband this year it will be with out my husband lost him March the 17th of this year
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Play games, movie marathon, decorate gingerbread houses, Skype with loved ones, make special gifts for others like painting an ornament or baking and decorating cookies…
My kids are teenagers and we have loads of fun. We play games and get pretty silly. Once we built a fort and then watched movies in it. We sometimes have movie marathons where we snuggle on the couch in pjs and junk food for hours. Sometimes we find all the leftover candy from the year and make graham cracker ‘gingerbread’ houses and decorate with the old candy. We cook together. We skype with relatives far away…
I’m going to have a TV turkey dinner and cat will have a can of cat turkey and gravy. No dirty dishes, no leftovers it will be wonderful.
Large or small, it is Thanksgiving. Have your dinner. Enjoy yourself, and don’t worry. Let it ride. You will find out that you can do it
Make it also a cell phone, etc. free day.
One thing u have to drink the Turkey before u eat the Turkey wild Turkey for life an watch the parade an foot ball
Games for 4 or make handmade gifts for xmas
What would you do with larger group? DO IT!
To spend time with my family and friends I want to invite and enjoy it without worrying about Covid-19
Games, Christmas karaoke and invite friends and family to join by video chat FaceTime etc., buy some diy ornaments add to your decorations Happy holidays
Draw names for Gift exchange
Play some board games. Make it a device free day
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Play some board games or card games
My favorite Thanksgiving tradition is to make what I call Carnival apple pie. It’s a regular pie shell blind baked with caramel chips. And then the apple filling assorted chopped nuts are warmed in a pan over the stove with some extra brown sugar a little bit of rum or Amaretto if there are no children eating it and then at the last minute to toss in a few handfuls of mixed chocolate chips with the milk chocolate dark chocolate and white chocolate. And a few more handfuls of caramel. Throw them till they’re just starting to melt and then pour it into the pie shell. Cover the top with my usual lattice pattern. Paint the top an egg wash and sprinkle with brown sugar. Then baked as usual.
We usually watch the Garfield Thanksgiving special on DVD. When I am at my mom’s we usually watch the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special. Are traditional games are gin rummy , War, trouble or sorry and Scrabble.
Screens are banned at our Thanksgiving. Except for watching the movie while we eat. No one touches the dessert bar until everyone is done eating. This year I will probably make pumpkin pie cheesecake. Just to have something different. The day after Thanksgiving is need modern holiday of wolfenoot. So I have towels to donate that need bagging up And bags of dog food to take to the shelter the next day. I will probably have thrift store on Black Friday or a cheap store like Five Below and get some dog chews and cat toys. I do not have a pet of my own this year. And because of covid-19 the donation drop will not involve petting puppies like I usually do.
Take time to say a word of thanks to our sweet lord above
Play board games, monoplay
I have to work so o well