Posted on November 21, 2008 - by admin

Ideas for a Fun ThanksGiving - without spending a lot of money

Happy Friday. We have some snow here - actually more than we had all of last year. It looks like it will be a good time to break out the sleds.

Next week is Thanksgiving and we’ve been talking quite a bit about saving money - today we want to talk about having some fun.

You should have a good crowd for your Thanksgiving dinner if you’ve followed our previous tips - here are some ideas.

1. Football fun - this is a game that lasts the entire weekend. First decide on a prize for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. Then each person that wants to participate picks the winners and losers of the weekends games. You can find schedules at the following links. For a tie breaker have one game that people need to pick the score - like the Sunday night game

2. During the game on Turkey day - everyone chooses a side. Before the game the teams gather together and write a list of goofy things they want the other team to do. Like perform a play. Sing the National Anthem. Tell who gave them their first kiss etc. Make sure you have around 20 different things in the hat. The goofier the task the better.

Decide when the losers will have to perform the task. Say you are watching Seatle and Dallas on Fox. I’m on the Dallas team - so everytime Dallas makes a first down then the losers would have to draw one of the goofy things out of a hat and do it. Everytime Seatle did something great (touchdown, first down, big play etc) then my team would have to draw from the hat.

The team with the most paper left in their hat win. Losers get to clean the kitchen.

The last time we did this I laughed so hard I couldn’t watch the game.

Here are schedules for the NFL

http://www.nfl.com/schedules?seasonType=REG#Week13

Here are the schedules for college football.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/schedules?week=14&season=2&year=2008&groupId=80

3. While you are getting ready for dinner - everyone writes down what they are thankful for. During the meal everyone takes their turn and gets to read / discuss their answer.

These are just some ideas - below are some links to a ton more.

http://fun.familyeducation.com/slideshow/thanksgiving/35209.html

http://www.playlibrary.com/2007/11/19/15-fun-things-to-do-with-the-kids-during-thanksgiving/

Here’s a big list of links.

http://www.knowledgehound.com/topics/thanksgi.htm

We hope you have a wonderful day!!!