Free Printable Thanksgiving Games

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1. The printables at a glance
2. Thanksgiving bingo
3. Thanksgiving word scramble
4. This or That cards
5. Fill-in-the-blank story
6. Thanksgiving trivia for grown-ups
7. Printables for younger kids
8. How to print and prep
9. Which printables for which crowd
10. Prize ideas
11. Questions hosts ask

You can print every game on this page tonight on plain paper. Add your family name to the top if you like, pick US Letter or A4, and the PDF comes out ready to go. Prefer screens? Most of these can also run in Play mode on a phone or a TV, which saves paper for a big crowd.

The printables at a glance

Game	Best ages	Time	What to print
Thanksgiving bingo	5 and up	15-30 min	One card per player, plus the calling sheet
Word scramble	8 and up	10-15 min	One sheet per player or team, one answer key
This or That cards	All ages	10-30 min	One deck per table
Fill-in-the-blank story	7 and up	10-15 min	One word list and one story page per group
Thanksgiving trivia	Teens and adults	20-30 min	One quiz per team, one answer key
Kids’ printables	4 to 10	10-25 min	See the kids’ section below

Thanksgiving bingo

The cards above draw 24 words each from a pool of 46: Stuffing, Wishbone, Pecan Pie, Leftovers, Nap and the rest, with a free center square. Every card is different, and the calling sheet lists all 46 words so you can cut them into slips or read down the list.

Bingo is the one to print if you only print one. It works for a 5-year-old and a great-grandmother at the same table, and it stops cleanly when the turkey comes out. With 10 to 20 players, a quick computer simulation by our editors puts a typical winner at 14 to 16 calls, which is three to five minutes at an easy pace.

How many to print: one card per player plus five spares. If you’ll play several rounds with pens rather than markers, print a fresh card per round.

Thanksgiving word scramble

Twenty-two holiday words, jumbled: TURKEY, GRAVY, CORNUCOPIA, CASSEROLE and more. The answer key prints on its own page, so the host can keep it face down. It’s a quiet game, which makes it right for the kids’ table while the grown-ups finish talking, or for a waiting room of relatives before dinner.

Run it as a race. Set a 10-minute timer, and the player with the most correct answers when it rings wins. Ties go to whoever finished first. Younger readers can team up with an older cousin; one reads the letters aloud while the other writes.

This or That cards

Forty-five cards with two choices each: “Stuffing inside the bird or baked in a pan?” “Pie for breakfast the next day or not?” Draw a card, read it, and everyone points at the same time. Whoever ends up in the smallest group has to defend their answer.

This is the printable to leave on the table after dinner, when nobody wants to move and the conversation needs a nudge. There’s no score, so it works for any size group and any age, and you can stop after three cards or thirty. Print on cardstock if you can; thin paper cards get floppy after one round of gravy fingers.

Fill-in-the-blank story

“The Great Thanksgiving Mix-Up” is a short, silly, family-friendly story about a turkey too big for the front door, a mystery pie and a dog under the table. It has 24 blanks. The reader asks the group for words like “a number,” “a plural noun” or “a relative’s name” without revealing the story, writes each one on the numbered word list, and then reads the story aloud with those words dropped in.

Type in who’s cooking the turkey and your dog’s name (real or invented) before you print, and the story uses them throughout. It takes about 10 minutes, and it’s easily the silliest game on this page. Play mode on a phone walks the reader through it one word at a time, so you don’t even need a pen.

Thanksgiving trivia for grown-ups

Twenty-six multiple-choice questions on the 1621 harvest celebration, how Thanksgiving became a national holiday, turkey facts, the Macy’s parade and football. We checked every answer against museum, archive or historical sources. The printable quiz and all the answers are in our Thanksgiving trivia questions and answers, along with a 15-question kids’ set.

Printables for younger kids

Kids under 8 get their own versions: bingo with a 4×4 grid and short, easy words like Pie and Owl, a “find someone who” card they carry around to the grown-ups, This or That cards written for kids and the kids’ trivia quiz. They’re all on our list of Thanksgiving games for kids, sorted by age.

How to print and prep

1. Open a game above and add a name for the top if you want one, like “The Rivera Family” or “Friendsgiving 2026.”
2. Choose US Letter or A4 and download the PDF.
3. Print at 100% or “actual size,” not “fit to page,” so the cards stay the size they were drawn. Our printing tips have more help if your cards come out small or cut off.
4. Print answer keys and the fill-in story page separately and keep them with the host.
5. Cut the This or That cards and bingo calling slips ahead of time. Cutting on the day always takes longer than you think.
6. Put each game in its own folder or envelope with its pens, markers and prizes.

Which printables for which crowd

Small family dinner (4 to 8 people)

This or That and the fill-in story are the best fit. Bingo can drag with only a few players, so if you play it, try “four corners” or any line of four touching the free space for a quicker win.

Big family gathering (15 to 40 people)

Bingo, run from a TV in Play mode so the back of the room can see the called words, and trivia in teams of four or five. Turn-based games get slow once more than about a dozen people are waiting their turn.

Kids’ table

The word scramble for readers, kids’ bingo for the little ones, and This or That cards for anyone who’s done with both. Seat one older kid at the table as the reader.

Grandparents and seniors

Call bingo slowly and repeat each word twice. Trivia works well read aloud, and a pen is easier than tiny markers. For a senior living group, our printable games for seniors include more large-print options.

Friendsgiving

Go with trivia, This or That and the fill-in story, which reads just as well to a room of 30-year-olds as it does to kids. For a longer lineup, see our Thanksgiving games for adults.

Prize ideas

Keep prizes small, since you’ll hand out several. Things that work for most Thanksgiving crowds:

• First pick of the pie, or the first slice
• A pass on dish duty, which is worth more than anything you could buy
• Mini bags of candy, a small box of chocolates or a caramel apple
• A fall candle or a small potted mum for adults
• Stickers, pencils or a small toy for kids
• The right to pick the after-dinner movie

For more ways to use these games across the whole day, see our Thanksgiving games for family, which sorts them by when to play. Every Thanksgiving printable we make is collected on the Thanksgiving games page.

Questions hosts ask

By the Party Game Book editors. Every game here is free to print for personal, classroom and non-commercial use. How we make and check our games.