Thanksgiving Birthday Party Ideas For Great Family Fun!

This happens to be a holiday birthday that is near and dear to my heart. My son was born on November 25th, so every seven years his birthday falls on Thanksgiving Day. Yes, it does require extra effort to insure your loved ones or friends' birthday doesn't go by unnoticed.

Plan ahead and let the Thanksgiving birthday celebration kick off the festivities in preparation for the upcoming holidays.

Here's some fun birthday party ideas intertwined with the theme of Thanksgiving, which may also easily be adapted to Thanksgiving party ideas for a Thanksgiving get together.


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THANKSGIVING BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR INVITATIONS

TURKEY INVITATIONS - Cut out a turkey shape from a piece of brown card stock using a turkey cookie cutter as a guide. Glue some wiggly eyes, and tail feathers of red, orange, and yellow to one side. On the reverse side write out your party details using a white gel pen.

PUMPKIN INVITATIONS - Cut out a pumpkin shape from a piece of orange card stock. Create a face by either drawing it onto your pumpkin or glue some wiggly eyes on instead. On the reverse side write out your party details.

MINI PUMPKIN INVITATIONS - Using decorative scissors, cut an 8 1/2" x 11" yellow cardstock into four pieces. Write out your party details one side of the card stock. Hole-punch upper left-hand corner, run yellow and orange ribbons through the hole, and tie to mini pumpkins. Hand-deliver your invites.

INDIAN CORN INVITATIONS - Using decorative scissors, cut an 8 1/2" x 11" yellow cardstock into four pieces. Write out your party details one side of the card stock. Hole-punch upper left-hand corner, run yellow ribbon through the hole, and tie to an Indian corn. Hand-deliver your invites.

AUTUMN LEAVES INVITATIONS - Cut out various leaf shapes from green, yellow, and red construction paper. Lay three leaves on top of one another to create a leaf cluster. Put something like, "Come To My Thanksgiving Birthday Party" on one side, along with a couple of Thanksgiving stickers. On the reverse side, put all of your party details.


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THANKSGIVING BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR COSTUMES

Invite your guests to wear some fun Thanksgiving-themed costumes, like pilgrims, Indians, pumpkins, turkeys, etc or give your guests pilgrim hats and Indian headbands as they arrive. If you're in the market to buy a Thanksgiving Costume, here's some great options.

THANKSGIVING BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR DECORATIONS

Traditional Thanksgiving colors of brown, rust, yellow, red, and orange should be the options you select for a Thanksgiving birthday party. Here's some Thanksgiving decoration ideas to consider:

• Cover your front door with a fall door cover and add fall leaf window clings to your windows to give your home an instant feeling of fall and begin to get your guests in the party mood.

• Create a scarecrow by filling an old pair of jeans and flannel shirt with newspaper. Add a straw hat and set your friend on a hay bale at the front door. You could also add a sign that says, "Happy Thanksgiving Birthday (Name!)"

• Create a leaf garland and hang throughout your party room along the ceiling, mantel, door frames, wrapped around banisters, etc.

  Draw your leaves onto various colors of construction paper. Spray water onto the papers and crumple them into a ball. Open them up and let them dry completely. Fold stems over a piece of twine and tape into place.

• Place bouquets of helium balloons in your party colors, along with Mylar birthday balloons throughout the party room.
  Thanksgiving Decoraton Ideas

• Liven up your ceiling with twisted streamers in fall colors.

• Hang cut-outs of Thanksgiving theme items like pumpkins, turkeys, the Mayflower, pilgrims, Indian corn, gourds, etc. on your walls.

• Hang leaf garlands around doorways, banisters, windows, etc.

• Hang fall wreaths on your doors.

• Add clusters of balloons in the shape of leaves and pumpkins to add to the Thanksgiving feel.
  Thanksgiving Decoraton Ideas

• Hang a personalized Thanksgiving birthday banner on a wall.

• Hang fall leaves at various lengths from the ceiling. Inter-mix curling ribbons that have been curled slightly.

• Create a centerpiece using an upside down pilgrim hat. Fill it with yellow and orange flowers, Indian corn, gourds, and add a bouquet of birthday balloons.

• Create a cornucopia (Horn of Plenty) centerpiece. Fill it with nuts, fruits, fall leaves and flowers, and attach a bouquet of birthday balloons with a fun wired plaid bow.

• Gossamer is always a favorite party decoration. You can use it to cover tables, walls, ceilings, swags, make fantastic bows, and lots more! It also comes in all the different fall colors in case you really like this decorating option and want to mix and match.
  Thanksgiving Decoraton Ideas

• Cover your tables with solid colored tablecloths and add festive fall print table runners.

• Add Thanksgiving candles on top of small mirrors on your various table tops. Sprinkle some confetti.

• Accent your dining room chairs with large plaid bows, gossamer bows, or fall printed fabrics tied around the backs.

• Scatter Thanksgiving confetti or gold confetti on your tables.
  Thanksgiving Decoraton Ideas

• Scatter candy corn on the table tops to add Thanksgiving color in an edible confetti form.

• Add vases of fresh flowers in your Thanksgiving colors.

• Use hay bales for your guests to sit on.

• If your party is going to go into the night, you might consider lighting up some outdoor fire pits.

Here's several fun Thanksgiving games and activities that are suitable for various ages and appropriate for a variety of Thanksgiving parties, including a Thanksgiving birthday party.

So, if you're looking for some games to keep the kids busy, here's an entire page with nothing but Thanksgiving Party Games, such as:

• Thanksgiving Necklace
• Floating Pumpkin Relay
• Pin The Feather On The Turkey
• Turkey Relay
• Pumpkin Bowling
• Leaf Treasure Hunt
• Turkey Hunt

CRANBERRY SALAD - There is nothing like fresh mixed greens topped off with yummy cranberries, Feta cheese, walnuts, and tossed with a great balsamic Dijon mustard vinaigrette.

CORNISH GAME HENS - Roast up these babies to a golden brown and serve them up on platters. Garnish with limes, oranges, pineapple, sliced red peppers, sweet potatoes, wild rice, or anything to add color and pizazz.

STUFFING - The perfect add-on to Cornish game hens or just as a side dish, since just about everyone loves stuffing.

CORN ON THE COB - For added yum-appeal, grill ears of corn on your bar-b-que and break or cut the cobs into three pieces to create mini cobbetes.

GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE - Another holiday favorite, that affords everyone the opportunity to get a serving of veggies. Use the recipe on the back of French fried onions or modify to create your own delectable delight.

MASHED POTATOES - Cut loose, use real butter (lots of it), and half and half and you will have quite a rich batch of yummy mashed potatoes. These taste so wonderful, they don't even need gravy.

Great Munchie Options For A Thanksgiving Birthday Party:

Just do a quick search of your favorite recipe sites and you'll come up with lots of great recipe options for party munchies and appetizers. Here's a few ideas to get you started:

VEGIES & DIP - Beau Monde dip is one of my favorites and it's easy to make. Just add some fresh veggies and your ready to go.

7-LAYER DIP & CHIPS - If you like bean dip, guacamole, sour cream, cheese, salsa, olives, and onions, then you're going to love creating a "pie" of these ingredients. Just dip your favorite tortilla chips or make them and you'll have a mouth-watering homemade treat.

DEVILED EGGS - Deviled eggs are always a welcome appetizer. Go the extra mile and pipe the filling back into the whites. The piping gives an instant look of elegance. Top it off with a sprinkling of paprika and they will look like you spent all day creating these yummies.

CHEESE BALL & CRACKERS - Make or buy a couple of cheese balls and serve with a variety of crackers.

CHEESE FONDUE - If you think fondue is so yesterday, then just make up a batch of your favorite fondue cheese, add some French bread cubes and crackers and you'll have everyone hanging out at the fondue table.

MINI CORNICOPIAS - Bugles of course.

PUMPKIN COOKIES - Cut these cookies into the shapes of turkeys and pumpkins and pipe on "Happy B-Day Name!"

NON-ALCHOLIC "CHAMPAGNE" - All you have to do is mix together 32 ounces of chilled club soda and 12 ounces of frozen white grape juice concentrate, thawed. Serve immediately to retain that "champagne" fizz.


THANKSGIVING BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR BIRTHDAY CAKES

TURKEY CUPCAKES - If you're thinking about serving individual turkey cupcakes, here's a cute little option from Family Fun to consider.

TURKEY CUPCAKES Everyone will gobble these little turkeys right up!

Instructions

To make each turkey, press the lower portion of a Nutter Butter cookie into a frosted cupcake for the bird's head.

Use tiny dabs of frosting to stick on mini-chocolate chip eyes and a red fruit leather wattle.

For each turkey's tail, use a butter knife to cut out a dozen feather shapes (about 3 inches long and 1 inch wide) from fruit leather.

Lay 6 of the feather shapes on a flat surface and place a wooden toothpick lengthwise atop each so that one end of the toothpick extends about an inch below the feather. Layer another fruit leather feather layer atop each of the 6 shapes, sandwiching the toothpicks between them.

Press the 2 layers together to make them stick, then fringe the edges of the feather with a butter knife. Now your child can stick the colored feathers into the cupcake behind the cookie head.

TURKEY CAKE #1 - Make your favorite cake in a turkey-shaped pan and just follow the instructions provided with the pan to create a colorful feather array, a silly turkey face, and a Happy Thanksgiving Birthday message.

TURKEY CAKE #2 - Make your favorite cake recipe in a 3-D turkey cake pan. Decorate according to the instructions and use it as a centerpiece during your party.

AUTUMN LEAVES CAKE - Make or buy a rectangular cake and cover it with brown frosting. Scatter orange, yellow, red, and green leaves made from fondant upon your cake. Add your birthday message and you're good to go.


THANKSGIVING BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR FAVORS

Fill lunch-sized brown paper bags that are decorated with any combination of fall leaves, berries, Thanksgiving stickers, and raffia with your party favors.

Here's some Favor Ideas to consider. Various kinds of balls, stickers, bracelets, Slinkies, tattoos, magic cube, pop rocks, yo yos, pop and catch, just to name a few.


THANKSGIVING BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR PARTY SUPPLIES

Here's some terrific Thanksgiving Celebration Supplies that you can pick and choose from in order to create the perfect Thanksgiving birthday party look.

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Do you have some favorite ideas for a Thanksgiving birthday party ideas? Do tell! Please share all your party tips and ideas for invitations, decorations, games, etc.

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