Thanksgiving game ideas are the best! Thanksgiving on its own is pretty special, but when you combine that special foodie feast with fun, it’s pretty much the greatest thing ever! So I’m here to offer you up a special Thanksgiving treat in the form of a fabulous Thanksgiving Game Free Printable: Finish My Phrase!
I think you and your family will love this Thanksgiving game idea!
Thanksgiving Game Free Printable: Finish My Phrase
Don’t you just love, love, love Thanksgiving?! The smells, the tastes, the laughs, the parade, and the football!
Adding family-friendly games to Thanksgiving day festivities is an excellent addition to this family-oriented holiday! And you can play games before, during, or after eating the big Thanksgiving meal!
To help with deciding what Thanksgiving game ideas to try this year with your family, here’s one that’s easy, clean, and a great way to get everyone talking!
Thanksgiving Game Free Printable: Finish My Phrase!
Here are the rules of this fun Thanksgiving game:
How many players can play this Thanksgiving game?
2+ (you can play in pairs or as an entire group!)
What ages can play this Thanksgiving game?
Anyone can play if they can answer the questions so very young children can join in and give their cute little sentences and ideas if they can talk! 🙂
To fully play the game, it is best if the players can read the paper so again, children can play, and if they are learning to read, this can be a great bonding game for the kids and their adult reading helpers!
What is needed to play this Thanksgiving game?
Just the Thanksgiving Game Free Printable: Finish My Phrase (available in this post!) and people to ask and answer the phrases! 🙂
What are the rules of this Thanksgiving game?
Thanksgiving Game Play Set-Up:
One person is chosen as the ANSWER KEY. Yes, a person provides their own unique answers, so they are the answer key. 🙂 They don’t need a copy of the Thanksgiving Game Free Printable: Finish My Phrase.
If playing as pairs, the other person is the guesser, if playing as a group, the entire group guesses.
Each pair, group, or person guessing should have their own copy of the Thanksgiving Game Free Printable: Finish My Phrase and something to write with. So a printable and a pen is needed for everyone but the ANSWER KEY person.
So, so far, we have one person who is the ANSWER KEY (they don’t need anything), and everyone else is a guesser (they need a copy of the Thanksgiving Game Free Printable: Finish My Phrase).
Thanksgiving Game Play:
Choose the ANSWER KEY person. They then wait patiently. (And maybe eat some Thanksgiving pie since it is Thanksgiving LOL!) 🙂
Everyone else, the guessers, then fill out their Thanksgiving Game Free Printable: Finish My Phrase printed out paper. So the guessers predict/guess what the ANSWER KEY person will say during the game.
For instance, on the Thanksgiving Game Free Printable: Finish My Phrase, one word is “PUMPKIN”. So the guessers will write in what they think the ANSWER KEY person will say when they finish the phrase “PUMPKIN”. So, for example, I will write “PUMPKIN PIE” as my guess.
So all the guessers guess what the ANSWER KEY person will say for each word written on the Thanksgiving Game Free Printable: Finish My Phrase. Don’t tell the ANSWER KEY person your guesses! 🙂
So the guessers spend a few minutes filling out the Thanksgiving Game Free Printable: Finish My Phrase with all their guesses!
Now it is time for the ANSWER KEY person to do their part!
Their job is to finish the phrases listed on the Thanksgiving Game Free Printable: Finish My Phrase. As in they will verbally answer by finishing the phrase spoken to them by someone else. (Yes, they could have a copy of the Thanksgiving Game Free Printable: Finish My Phrase themselves, but then they might pre-plan their answers, and it’s usually much more fun to have people spontaneously answer!)
So basically, one person, the ANSWER KEY person, sits (or stands) and waits for someone else to say something like “Pumpkin” (this is listed on the Thanksgiving Game Free Printable: Finish My Phrase) and then they will answer something like “Pumpkin Pie”!
After the ANSWER KEY person has answered every word/phrase on the Thanksgiving Game Free Printable: Finish My Phrase, the guessers tally up their score, and the guesser with the most points wins!
Then the winner can become the next ANSWER KEY person!
Who wins the Thanksgiving game?
The person who guessed most of the ANSWER KEY person’s answers wins!
Give one point for each correctly guessed answer written on the Thanksgiving Game Free Printable: Finish My Phrase and tally the total at the bottom of the sheet where it says “total”.
This was all a really long explanation for basically: This is a guess-what-someone-else-will-say game LOL. 🙂
For instance, one person/a guesser says “gravy,” and the answer key person says, “gravy train” and everyone laughs, and only two people out of the twelve family members/the guessers playing get points because they knew the answer key person would say, “gravy train”. 🙂
To get your Thanksgiving Game Free Printable: Finish My Phrase, use the form below! 🙂
Printable Tips for Playing Perfect’s Thanksgiving Game Printable!
Here are my top tips for making the most of this free Thanksgiving game printable! 🙂
When you do print, I suggest considering the printer, the ink, and the paper.
Your printed printable might look different than mine due to our different printers, ink, and paper.
Of course, the higher quality printer, ink, and paper, the higher quality of the final product.
Given all the modern advances in printing, though, there’s a good chance that no matter what you’re using to print, you’ll probably love the results.
Here’s the printer I use and LOVE!!! (it’s totally worth all those exclamation marks): The Wireless EcoTank All-in-One with Cartridge-Free Printing and Auto Doc Feeder
- I’m so crazy about this printer because it has cartridge-free printing (!) which means I am never messing with those ink cartridges AND the ink it uses lasts for sooooooooo long I feel like I will never run out!
- The printer came with ink that might last years (I’ll have to give an update when I run out, but so far, I think the ink is going to last a super long time!)!
- The ink (that is included) can print up to 14,000 pages black/11,200 color (that’s sooooooooo much!!) which is equivalent to about 30 ink cartridge sets!
Wow, I hope I make 11,000 pages of printables so I can put this impressive printer to the full test LOL!
As far as paper, I usually use whatever is a good deal: Here are paper deals on Amazon.
BUT I know a lot of people prefer and suggest to print their printables (especially wall art) on high-quality card stock: Here are some cardstock options.
Again, printing results vary, so use the printer, ink, and paper that will get you the results you want. 🙂
*Bonus* You might want to look around at other blog posts here on Playing Perfect because I have all sorts of FREE printables all over this blog!
I hope this Thanksgiving game free printable will be a fun addition to your Thanksgiving plans this year and perhaps even become a tradition for your family every year!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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