We are all looking forward to some Holiday cheer in 2020. We know that our Thanksgiving traditions will need to be re-imagined a bit. We are here to help you with some ideas to enjoy Thanksgiving this year and help adhere to the CDC Guidelines to stay safe.

Virtual Thanksgiving

Give The Gift of Family Recipes- A favorite of Thanksgiving is family traditions are the food and recipes being handed down from generation to generation. Organize a virtual Thanksgiving where family members exchange those recipes and share the recreations over zoom. Here are some great tips to organize this help to make this a success!

Have Virtual Thanksgiving Meal or Dessert together - This is especially important for our older family members who can't attend or families who won't be traveling. . Pick a time for everyone to join and enjoy the Thanksgiving meal together. Here are some tips to make this go smoothly…

Hosting Thanksgiving?

One idea we love is if you are having people over, set up tables per family so they get thief food together and eat together at the same table. Here are some tips and ideas full pulling this off and keeping as safe as possible

Small Business Support/ DIY & Order out

Pie for Breakfast! This is a trend for 2020 and a great way to support small businesses in your area and take some work off your plate! Here is our Ultimate Pie For Breakfast Checklist to make it extra special!

Order "Thanksgiving in a box" dinners from local restaurants and small businesses for your family or order for your loved ones like our older family members to include them. Here are some ideas to make sure it goes off without a hitch!

Thanksgiving Deliveries /Drop Off

Preparing traditional family recipes for family and neighbors, especially those at higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19, and delivering them in a way that doesn’t involve contact with others. Here are some tips for preparing them, contactless drop-off, and how to package them to be beautiful.

Cookie/Cupcake Decorating or Create a Thanksgiving dessert table. This is a great activity for kids and can be used wonderful surprise to drop off to a grandparent or send - they will eat them up, attach cute notes, drawing and packaging! Here are some fun ideas to do this.

Make it Fun & Memorable!

Decorate the Gobble out of it - Here are some great decor ideas to get everyone in the mood. We cover Table Settings, Decorations, Gobble gobble boxes for kids, and all the extra details that make it special. Get our top tips here,

Keep Busy- Don’t be boring! Watching sports events, parades, and movies from some Macy's Day Parade is our favorite to watch while we prepare our Thanksgiving meal. we love to watch the National Dog Show after that and get ready for the big game after that! Sometime in the day, we put up our tree so it’s light on when the game comes on! We also play games and toast what we are thankful for at dinner. Here are some ideas to keep it moving!

Cookie/Cupcake Decorating

Create a Thanksgiving dessert table. ...

Small Business Pies

Moderate risk activities

• Having a small outdoor dinner with family and friends who live in your community

  • Lower your risk by following CDC’s recommendations on hosting gatherings or cook-outs. —— YVONNES IDEA

  • If you are hosting a gathering:

    • Host as many activities outdoors as possible.

    • Be reasonable: Consider how many people you can safely host while maintaining distance and safe practices.

    • Ventilation: Open windows as much as possible to increase air circulation.

    • If you or relatives are coming in from out of town, limit your exposures in the two weeks before you travel.

    • Seating arrangements: Keep members of the same household together; separate households as much as possible.

    • Limit the number of people in smaller areas of the home like the kitchen.

    • Consider spreading the gathering into multiple rooms.

    • Serving: If serving buffet style, remind those using shared serving utensils to wash their hands before they eat. Consider serving food already plated.

• Visiting pumpkin patches or orchards where people use hand sanitizer before touching pumpkins or picking apples, wearing masks is encouraged or enforced, and people are able to maintain social distancing

• THANKSGIVING PORCH OFF

• Day AFTER -SANTA

Write down what you're thankful for.

Indulge in a pie breakfast.

Instead of starving yourself until 3 p.m., start the day right (and expand your stomach a little!) with a pie breakfast. Invite guests to bring their favorites, or try one of these killer recipes.

In all the fun and frenzy, it can be easy to forget the true meaning of Thanksgiving: gratitude. Dole out black sharpies and, before digging in, invite each guest to write what they're thankful for on a butcher paper cloth laid over the table. You can archive the sheets to look back on fondly.