{"id":5955,"date":"2011-11-03T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2015-07-07T16:10:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T22:10:57","slug":"thanksgiving-ideas-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/thanksgiving-ideas-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Ideas for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/Greeting-Cards\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Golden Grove Deluxe Thanksgiving Greeting Cards\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/000110856m-small.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Grove Deluxe Thanksgiving Greeting Cards\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Thanksgiving is a holiday to be enjoyed by all ages, and it&#8217;s a day when we express how thankful we are for all of our blessings. Even young children can participate in Thanksgiving by participating in one (or more) of these creative Thanksgiving ideas for kids (and adults, too):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read or write a Thanksgiving poem or prayer before dinner.<\/li>\n<li>Read a Thanksgiving Bible verse.<\/li>\n<li>Write or read a Thanksgiving story to everyone.<\/li>\n<li>Share a meaningful, special Thanksgiving memory (can go around the table and do this before eating)<\/li>\n<li>Invite a friend to your home for Thanksgiving dinner.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/Majestic-Turkey-Folded-Place-Cards\/-167937\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6397\" title=\"Majestic Turkey Folded Place Cards\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/HMC5668-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"Majestic Turkey Folded Place Cards\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/HMC5668-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/HMC5668-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/HMC5668-350x241.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/HMC5668.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade or a Thanksgiving-themed movie or show together as a family.<\/li>\n<li>Volunteer at a shelter,\u00a0 or prepare a care package to give to the homeless or to a shelter near your home.<\/li>\n<li>Plan a family football game in the yard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PaperDirect is your online source for <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Fall Invitations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/Fall\/Invitations\" target=\"_blank\">fall party invitations<\/a>, <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Fall Place Cards\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/Place-Cards\" target=\"_blank\">place cards<\/a> and <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Thanksgiving Greeting Cards\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/Thanksgiving\/Greeting-Cards\" target=\"_blank\">Thanksgiving greeting cards<\/a> and <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Thank You Cards\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/Thanksgiving\/NoteCards\" target=\"_blank\">thank you notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/Invitations\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6399\" title=\"Turkey Time Casual Invitations\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/TurkeyTimeINV-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey Time Casual Invitations\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/TurkeyTimeINV-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/TurkeyTimeINV-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/TurkeyTimeINV-229x350.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/TurkeyTimeINV.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving is a holiday to be enjoyed by all ages, and it&#8217;s a day when we express how thankful we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[171],"class_list":["post-5955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-special-event-ideas","tag-thanksgiving"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14804,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions\/14804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}