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This post shares eight fun and family friendly New Year’s games that help kids and teens celebrate in a safe memorable way. From cotton ball tossing and candy cane challenges to the saran wrap ball game and homemade telestrations each activity brings laughter connection and creative competition. These games work for small family gatherings or larger parties and create a wholesome celebration to ring in the new year.

This post offers simple Thanksgiving activities for families spending the holiday at home due to COVID restrictions. It provides two free scavenger hunts, one photo based for teens and young adults and one simple version for younger kids. The author also shares links to a thankful M and M game, five kernels of thankfulness, conversation starters, and coloring pages to keep children entertained while the meal is being prepared.

This post offers simple Thanksgiving conversation starters to help families slow down, connect, and enjoy meaningful fellowship during the meal. Readers can write the prompts on slips of paper and place them in a bowl for guests to draw and answer. A free printable is included, along with extra links for more Thanksgiving ideas and resources.

This post encourages families to bring their Thanksgiving celebration back to its spiritual roots by adding intentional prayer to the meal. It provides simple prayer prompts to help kids and adults express gratitude, pray for loved ones, and focus on God. A printable guide is included for easy use at the table.

This post encourages families to choose gratitude during November by focusing on God’s faithfulness rather than their circumstances. Using Philippians 4:6 to 7, the author explains how thanksgiving helps replace anxiety with God’s peace and strengthens faith by remembering His past provision. The post also offers free Scripture based coloring pages to help kids learn and memorize verses about thankfulness.

This post encourages families to help kids develop a thankful heart by using a gratitude journal throughout November. A free printable with daily prompts gives children space to write or draw what they are grateful for. The author also links to additional ideas like gratitude trees and other activities that help kids grow in thankfulness.

This post introduces a God centered Blessing Mix that uses simple snack ingredients to teach children and adults about gratitude and biblical truth. Each item in the mix represents a reminder of God’s provision, love, and faithfulness. A free printable is included so families can share the mix in snack bags and use it to spark conversations about thankfulness throughout November.

This post shares creative hands on activities to help kids practice gratitude throughout November. Ideas include writing blessings on a pumpkin creating a grateful paper chain making a paper thankful pumpkin and using the five kernels of corn tradition on Thanksgiving day. These simple projects help families focus on God’s faithfulness and build a consistent attitude of thankfulness.

This post explains how the way Americans celebrate Thanksgiving today is completely different from how the Pilgrims originally observed it. Instead of feasting, the Pilgrims treated thanksgiving as a solemn day of fasting prayer repentance and worship. The author shares research showing that the famous 1621 feast was a harvest festival not a religious thanksgiving and that true thanksgiving days were focused on seeking God during hardship. The post encourages families to bring God back into the holiday with prayer gratitude teaching the real history and using activities that highlight the faith and religious freedom of the Pilgrims.