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Choose a finished activity below. Each page shows the material before you print and includes the answer or caller key where needed.

Print the Thanksgiving pack

One print job gives you 12 different Thanksgiving bingo cards with the call list, name tags, 12 Thanksgiving riddles with an answer page, 15 Thanksgiving trivia questions with an answer page and 12 thankful cards.

This opens on an example: a family dinner of 12 guests. Pick your group or type how many are playing, and every part below follows.

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  • 13 pages
  • 7 pages
  • 2 pages
  • 2 pages
  • 2 pages
  • 3 pages
  • 3 pages

The pack prints 19 pages: 16 for the players and 3 for the host.

The host's pages are the answer pages and the call list.

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Thanksgiving word search

Select the first and last letters of a word to mark it. The answer key is below.

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Thanksgiving bingo cards

12 cards · 6 card sheets + 1 call-list sheet

Cards ready: all 12 are different. Print or download the set.

No counters to mark the squares? Print a sheet of bingo chips to cut out.

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Bingo caller

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    Check a card

    Every call, the called ones marked

    Play on phones

    Each player opens the link on a phone, types the card number you give them, and taps squares as you call. Card 3 on a phone is the same as printed card 3. The card and its marks stay in the link; nothing is stored.

    Timer and team scores

    8 turns × 60 seconds = 8 minutes of play, plus instructions and breaks.

    60

    Pause whenever the group needs more time.

    Team Lime's turn

    Team Lime: 0

    Team Violet: 0

    Printable name tags

    Printable name tagsPrintable name tagsName / team: ____________________ Date: __________MadBright · /printable-games/name-tags

    Thanksgiving riddles with answers

    1. I'm a bone that everybody wants to break. What am I?
    2. I'm poured from a boat, but I've never been to sea. What am I?
    3. I'm shaped like a horn, but nobody ever plays me. Fruit and vegetables spill out of me onto the table. What am I?
    4. I'm stuffed, but not with food. I stand in the field with my arms out, and birds are supposed to be scared of me. What am I?
    5. I'm as tall as a building and I float down the street, but people have to hold me down with ropes. What am I?
    6. After the big dinner, everybody suddenly has somewhere else to be when it's time to do us. What are we?
    7. I'm a drumstick, but I've never played a drum. What am I?
    8. On Thanksgiving afternoon I get kicked and thrown around, and nobody feels sorry for me. What am I?
    9. In November we fall, but nobody trips. What are we?
    10. I'm a vegetable on the Thanksgiving table, and I'm also a sport played with a racket. What am I?
    11. Some families say me before the meal, and a ballet dancer moves with me. What am I?
    12. My name is a month and a flower put together, but I'm a ship that carried the Pilgrims. What am I?

    Answers: Thanksgiving riddles with answers

    1. The wishbone.
    2. Gravy.
    3. A cornucopia.
    4. A scarecrow.
    5. A parade balloon.
    6. The dishes.
    7. A turkey leg.
    8. A football.
    9. Leaves.
    10. Squash.
    11. Grace.
    12. The Mayflower.

    Thanksgiving trivia questions

    1. On which weekday is U.S. Thanksgiving celebrated?
    2. In what year did the U.S. Thanksgiving date become uniform nationwide?
    3. What is the earliest possible calendar date for U.S. Thanksgiving?
    4. What is the latest possible calendar date for U.S. Thanksgiving?
    5. From what year does the modern U.S. national Thanksgiving celebration date?
    6. Which year supplied the harvest celebration later popularized as the first Thanksgiving?
    7. Where and when was the first known civil day of thanksgiving in the New England tradition?
    8. Which bird is the centerpiece of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner?
    9. When is Canadian Thanksgiving held each year?
    10. Since what date has Thanksgiving been an annual official holiday in Canada?
    11. Which governor general issued Canada's 1957 Thanksgiving proclamation?
    12. Besides the United States, name one country with a national Thanksgiving holiday.
    13. Which Australian territory also observes Thanksgiving?
    14. What did Thanksgiving originally give thanks for?
    15. What was the first permanent English colony in New England?

    Answers: Thanksgiving trivia questions

    1. the fourth Thursday of November
    2. 1941
    3. November 22
    4. November 28
    5. 1863
    6. 1621
    7. Plymouth Colony in 1623
    8. Turkey
    9. the second Monday in October
    10. November 6, 1879
    11. Vincent Massey
    12. Canada, Saint Lucia or Liberia
    13. Norfolk Island
    14. the blessings of the harvest
    15. Plymouth Colony

    Trivia answer sheets

    Thankful cards

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    • Thanksgiving word search: Thanksgiving, Cornucopia, Homecoming, Abundance, Blessings, Drumstick, Gathering, Wampanoag, Generous, Homemade, Memories, Pilgrims, Roasting, Together, Dessert, Kitchen, Napkins, Platter, Sharing, Welcome, Bounty, Dinner, Gobble Thanksgiving word search 23 words to find

      Gathering, gratitude, food, and Thanksgiving traditions.

    • Thanksgiving bingo card, 5 by 5: Grateful heart, Pumpkin pie, Serving spoon Thanksgiving bingo cards 33 words to call

      For the Thanksgiving table or a class party: pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce, parade float, wishbone, and more for every age.

    • Crossword puzzles with answers Crossword puzzles with answers 19 puzzles

      Printable crosswords with our own clues and an answer key for each: easy ones for kids with a word bank, medium and hard ones for adults, and holiday puzzles. Solve on screen or print them.

    • Thanksgiving bingo Thanksgiving games 15 games

      Printable Thanksgiving games for home or the classroom, table games for the family between courses, and active games for kids after dinner. Each game lists group size, time, ages and what you need.

    • I'm a bone that everybody wants to break. What am I? Thanksgiving riddles with answers 28 riddles

      Thanksgiving riddles about the turkey, the table and the harvest to pass around at dinner. Easy ones for kids come first; the last section is for teens and adults.

    • Printable name tags Printable name tags

      Print the finished sheet or download its PDF. Use the rules below to set up the game.

    • On which weekday is U.S. Thanksgiving celebrated? Thanksgiving trivia questions
    • Unscramble these 15 Christmas words. Each box is one letter of the answer. Thanksgiving word scramble

    Questions about Thanksgiving printable games

    What can I print for Thanksgiving?

    The Thanksgiving word search with its answer page, Thanksgiving bingo cards with a call list and name tags for the table.

    What can we play at the table?

    Thanksgiving riddles and trivia work between courses, and the Thanksgiving games page has table games for the whole family.