Decor:
Take 5 to 10 pieces of long strings to be hooked up above the walls
across the room. Cut colored paper, preferably in different shades
of green and yellow, in leafy shapes. Glue them in a row at equal
distance along each string. Hook the leafy strings high enough on
the walls so that none of them touches the head of even the tallest
of your guests.
To make tent like shapes you can use your stools, vinyl chairs,
coat stands, lamp stands. Then place large spread sheets and bed
covers to cover each up in a tent like shape. Tape the four loose
ends of the sheet with the floor to give the inclines of the sheet
a taut look.
You can also hang masks of native Indians and masked heads of deer,
turkeys, fowls along the walls of the room.
Place, if you like, potted plants, preferably the bushy variety,
in the corners of the party room or hall and also along the corridor.
Lay tablecloth with nature motifs or with prints of Turkeys and
geared heads of native Indians. Place a customized Thanksgiving
note below the placemats on each of the tables.
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Party Games:
Ask your guests to say what they are thankful for. For a twist ask
each one to add to their reasons what their predecessor's) said. You
will be amazed to find how difficult it is to remember all of them
at the end of one turn. The more the participants the more difficult
it is to continue.
You can make it more interesting by asking the participants to scribble
down the stuff on a pad. Serve each a pencil and a pad. It will be
funny to note how words get changed.
Ask the children to go for a turkey hunt. Make one the hunter and
get the child out of the room where a turkey, usually made up of paper,
is kept hidden. For a better twist keep the hunter to be behind a
closed door room. And ask the others each carrying a turkey to hide
their turkeys at different parts of the house. Wait for a few minutes
and when everyone's ready ask the hunter to start searching.
The paper turkey can be replaced by the kids themselves. Improvise
the old hide-N-seek game to a 'Turkey hunt' by supplying a turkey
mask to each of the children and asking each one to put it on their
faces and hide themselves away in different places around the house.
Go As you Like: Ask the guests to join a go-as-you-like contest. In
it each of the participants are required to take the guise of any
character from the 1st thanksgiving feast by the Pilgrims and the
Indian invitees. While some will sport the guise of a native Indian
some will pose themselves as the Pilgrims. This will help recreate
the ambience of the first feast.
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Other Activities:
If you have some more spare time before the dinner. Try this one out.
Suggest that everyone write notes to family members and friends who
couldn't be with you on this night telling them why you're grateful
that they're a part of your life and that you're thinking of them.
Have extra stationery, pens, and stamps so guests can join in. And
if the writer allows, it can be read out.
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Dance Swap
It's best if you prepare ahead of time, asking the guests to bring
CDs, tapes, or records of dance music of their choice. Allot each
one a music from a special type so that there's not much duplication.
Break out the Charleston, the Stroll, the Electric Slide, or the Macarena.
Ask a member of each generation teaches the rest of the family a dance
from his or her youth.
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