Celebrations and Festivities all around the world

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Everyone needs a Thanksgiving centerpiece to decorate the dinner table for their Thanksgiving lunch! Your centerpiece should be big enough to command attention, but not overbearing or distracting from the food! Make sure it's low enough that guests can see across the table.

Hang a Thanksgiving wreath on your front door to welcome guests into your home. The wreaths are circles of dry branches, intertwined with foliage, flowers, stones, used to decorate  doors on Thanksgiving Day.

The tablecloth is a special one just for this day the tablecloth must have an orange color.

Cornucopia is the representation of the horn of the goat Amalthea, and comes from Greco-Roman mythology. It has been used as a decoration at these festive times of Thanksgiving, as a way to wish friends and family a prosperous and bountiful year.

“The Thanksgiving Special” is a Regular Show episode aired on November 25th of 2013.

In this episode Mordecai and Rigby accidentally ruin Thanksgiving and they must find a way to save it before their families arrive for dinner.

After carving roasted turkey for the meal, a bone in the shape of a Y is placed aside to dry. Your wish is fulfilled and good luck in the coming year.&nbsp;But if the bone breaks in half or into three pieces, both people have their wishes fulfilled.

2. Watch Macy's Fashion Show

This tradition is the most famous of this holiday in the USA. In New York, thousands of people gather in the streets of Manhattan to watch this parade. This parade is particularly known for the huge inflatable dolls that are carried between the skyscrapers and on top of the spectators.

Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday on October 3, 1863, but it took 17 years of letters from Sarah Joseph Hale, an American writer and activist, for that to happen and because of her insistence, she is considered the Mother of Thanksgiving.

The first Thanks Giving was celebrated in 1621 over a 3-day harvest celebration!

It may come as a surprise that on the first Thanks Giving turkey wasnt on the menu instead it was likely served venison, duck, goose, oysters, lobster, eel and fish along with pumpkins and cranberries.

Famous Quotes about Thanksgiving Day

“Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude”

“Forever on Thanksgiving the heart will find the pathway home.”

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”

"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer."

“Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.”

"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all."

How is Thanksgiving celebrated in the USA?

Families and friends get together for a meal, which usually includes a roast turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, vegetables,cranberry sauce, gravy, and pumpkin pie. 

In some cities and also towns, there are parades during the Thanksgiving weekend, where people can watch personally on the streets or even at home on their TVs.&nbsp;

On Thanksgiving Day, people&nbsp; also use to watch football games with their friends or family on the TV. 

Most government offices, businesses, schools, universities, colleges, and other organizations are closed on Thanksgiving Day. Many offices and businesses allow staff to have a long four-day weekend for Thanksgiving, so these offices and businesses are also closed on the Day after Thanksgiving Day. Public transit systems usually do not operate on their regular timetables.

Place cards are used on Thanksgiving to identify each guest and their seat at the table.

A printable banner is a fast and easy way to display a sweet Thanksgiving message. Celebrate and give thanks by creating a pretty Thanksgiving garland. A festive holiday garland can transform a space in minutes, giving it some pizzazz without overwhelming a room. Drape this on the fireplace mantel, window, doorframe, or dining room They can have with different adornments, such as ribbons, fruits, cypresses, balls, pine branches, all the symbols and ornaments that represent the feast of the day of Thanksgiving.

Creative Ways to Celebrate Thanksgiving

If you won’t be seeing relatives for the holiday, you can show you’re thinking of them with a thoughtful care package. Include treats or even a recipe in a jar. Don’t forget to write them a nice note, too.&nbsp;

Instead of an annual Friendsgiving dinner, why not have a wine exchange with your closest friends? Have everyone write wine names, then send the recipient a bottle of wine to enjoy on Thanksgiving. If you're not sure what wine he/she likes, ask someone close to him/her.

Who doesn’t love a crafting day? There are lots of fun Thanksgiving crafts that both adults and children will enjoy, so stock up on construction paper and feathers and let your imagination run wild. Later, let your kids show off their creations to relatives or family friends that you and they haven't seen in a while.

If you have older relatives who aren’t planning to do anything on Thanksgiving, you can make their day brighter with contactless food delivery. Some restaurants let you order Thanksgiving meals, but you can also get them takeout from their favorite restaurant using a food delivery service.

How is Thanksgiving celebrated in Canada?

In Ontario, for example, families also enjoy sweet butter tarts or syrup-filled pastry shells. Across the country, Canadians typically finish the meal with a spicy pumpkin pie topped with cloves, ginger, and cinnamon for dessert.

Similar to Americans, Canadians enjoy football and sports on Thanksgiving, and the Canadian Football League televises its own football doubleheader known as the Thanksgiving Day Classic. There are also Thanksgiving Day parades for families and children to enjoy. The largest and best known is the Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest Thanksgiving Day Parade, which is on Thanksgiving and typically has over 120 floats.

Spicy Pumpkin Pie with Ginger and Cinnamon

Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest Thanksgiving Day Parade

Drink that contains a mixture of figs, vodka, and vanilla bean. It's the perfect way to start the night. If you're feeling fancier, I suggest topping it with freshly cut figs.

This drink contains a sweet mixture of pomegranate and liqueur which you can replace many of the ingredients. If you love lemon, orange or lime (or would prefer rum over vodka). Whatever you decide on the mix is sure to taste good.

Turkey cannot be missing from the Thanksgiving menu. The meal usually also includes bread, pumpkin, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes and pumpkin, apple or nut pie, foods from the pilgrims' time.

Mashed potatoes is one of the dishes that cannot be missing from the table, because in addition to being delicious, it also goes well with chicken in sauce or even turkey.

Benjamin Franklin did not want to make turkey the national bird of the USA. In a personal letter sent to his daughter addressing this matter, he said that images portraying eagles in American symbols looked more like turkeys than actual eagles. From there on, there was this a rumor that he wanted  the turkey to be the USA bird.

The city with the oldest parade in the USA is Philadelphia. The&nbsp;Philadelphia Gimbel Brothers Department Store parade in 1920&nbsp;had only 50 people, 15 cars and a fireman dressed as Santa Claus. The parade ended with Santa on his sleigh, signifying the arrival of the holiday season. Today, it’s much bigger and called the 6abc Dunkin’ Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade instead. It was the inspiration behind the Macy’s Day Thanksgiving Day Parade which started in 1924.

If you're celebrating with your family, shake things up this year and have a Thanksgiving brunch. Choose from the best brunch recipes and let everyone in your family choose their favorite. Then plan a fun activity for the afternoon.

Football is a traditional Thanksgiving pastime, so why not get your loved ones together for a friendly competition? If you’re playing with people outside your family, be sure to implement no-touch rules to stay safe. (When you’re done, enjoy snacks while watching the game on TV).

Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on November 24th in the United States and Canada. The point of this day is to celebrate the harvest and the other blessings of the past year.&nbsp;

Another example is Thanksgiving of Horror, which is the eighth episode of the thirty-first season of the American television series 'The Simpsons'.

Since this day is a very special one in  American culture, many cartoons are created to celebrate this day, for example:

This episode aired in the US on November 24th of 2019 and involves Thanksgiving but in a very strange way.

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. This is a short film about the series, where all the characters celebrate Thanksgiving Day. This short film was made in 1973.

It is used to highlight various types of food used on Thanksgiving Day.

Pumpkins are used as decoration. At this time of year, pumpkins play a key role in American cuisine and decor. Sculpted in the shape of the character “Jack O’Lantern” or decorated by hand, we can find them spread around the houses in a very fun way. They are also used in the preparation of the delicious “Pumpkin Pie”, the famous Thanksgiving pie.

Serving platters can add a festive touch to your Thanksgiving tablescape.

If weather-permitting, work up an appetite on Thanksgiving by going hiking with your family. Pack snacks and plenty of water, then hit the trail for some quality time in the great outdoors. If you go in the morning, you’ll even have time to cook a turkey when you get home.

For a laid-back Thanksgiving at home, gather your family in the living room and binge-watch some of the best Thanksgiving TV episodes. Some popular options include holiday episodes from Friends, Gilmore Girls and Bob’s Burgers, which are available on various streaming services.

Although it was celebrated in 1621 for the first time, it was not until 1863 that President Abraham Lincoln declared that Thanksgiving Day would place every fourth Thursday of November. In 1941, Congress declared Thanksgiving a national holiday.

Nowadays it is reserved for spending time with the family, going to street parades, preparing delicious food, watching American football games and giving thanks. Some people have the habit of writing things they are grateful for on pieces of paper and then reading them aloud at the end.

As the country became more urban and family members began to live farther apart, Thanksgiving became a time to gather together. The holiday moved away from its religious roots to allow immigrants of every background to participate in a common tradition.

The Thanksgiving holiday has religious roots, as pilgrims used the opportunity to thank God for a good harvest. Then they prepared a meal and shared it with everyone who lived in that region. Over the years, Thanksgiving gained new traditions. 

Non-traditional ways to celebrate Thanksgiving

Make a meal with a different theme. Make non-thanksgiving food, for example, if you like Egypt make some Koshary or other kinds of food from other countries.

Roast a quail, turn some baby potatoes, and bake pies in muffin tins! Some work but the result will be cute.

Working within safety restrictions, make a Thanksgiving that is centered around the drink more than the food.

Treat yourself to a splurge meal. After all, think of all that money you’re saving on turkey and booze.

Learn more about the history of Thanksgiving

Do some research on the history of Thanksgiving and make a game out of it with your companions.

If you can’t spend Thanksgiving with your family, host a go out with your friends.

Canadian Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October. Canadian Thanksgiving is more lowkey than its American counterpart. Although the holiday takes place on a Monday, employers are not required to give workers the day off. Families and friends usually gather on the Sunday before to celebrate the holiday. Also, Canadian Thanksgiving is not celebrated widely across Canada and is not common in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, or Prince Edward Island. 

By November, all those yams and pumpkins would be frozen solid. In Canada, Thanksgiving has to happen well before Halloween since Canadian kids never know if they’ll need to hide their cool new Spiderman costumes under winter coats and trick-or-treat through two feet of snow.

Thanksgiving meals vary in each province, so if you’re new to Canada you can also create your own tradition. Families in Newfoundland typically enjoy what’s known as a Jigg’s Dinner. A Jigg’s Dinner is a boiled meat dish accompanied by a split-pea pudding, which is not too far off from the original Thanksgiving meal shared by the explorers.

And why is it in October, you ask? Canada isn’t known as the Great White North for nothing. The country may be huge, but about 90 percent of the population lives within reach of the border, and even still, those places get cold before summer has finished in many US states. With the earlier onset of winter, the time to reap the harvest naturally falls much earlier in the year. 

After cooking and eating so much, it's time to rest on the couch as people with a full stomach usully feel drowsiness. High blood sugar levels also cause fatigue so most Americans enjoy taking a nap after Thanksgiving lunch.&nbsp;

5. Thanks for what happened

In the spirit of giving thanks and helping others, many communities across the US hold “food drives”. These organizations also offer “Thanksgiving” dinners so everyone has a place to enjoy a hot meal. Every year at EF Academy New York, students from around the world enjoy the spirit of this holiday. They share a traditional Thanksgiving meal, go Black Friday shopping at a nearby mall, and decorate the aisles for the holidays. It's a really fun way to share this important part of American culture with our international community.

During the meal or even when resting is the perfect time to reflect and give thanks, sharing with other people everything that happened during the year. Listening to the best moments and all the experiences of that year is also important.

Thanksgiving decorating colours include orange, green, red, yellow, and brown – all darker than usual, just like fall leaves!

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Jingle Bells was an 1857 song originally entitled "The One Horse Open Sleight". Its composer James Lord Pierpont wanted it to be a Thanksgiving song but the song only became popular on the 25th of December and because of that the title was changed to "Jingle Bells".

Each year, about 46 milion turkeys are cooked for Thanksgiving Day. In 1989 George H. W. Bush was the first US president to pardon a turkey but he wasn't the only one that saved a turkey: Richard Nixon sent his turkey to a petting zoo!

The average number of calories consumed on Thanksgiving is 4500!!!

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in the United States, and Thanksgiving 2022 occurs on Thursday, November 24. In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states.

The word Thanksgiving means the act of giving thanks; being grateful and acknowlege benefits or favors, especially from God. It's a holiday to give thanks and celebrate everything good that happened in the past year.

Plymouth’s Thanksgiving began with a few colonists going out “fowling,” possibly for turkeys but more probably for the easier prey of geese and ducks, since they “in one day killed as much as…served the company almost a week.” Next, 90 or so Wampanoag made a surprise appearance at the settlement’s gate, doubtlessly unnerving the 50 or so colonists. Nevertheless, over the next few days the two groups socialized without incident.&nbsp;

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