Thanksgiving Table Topics Question Ideas

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite times of the year. It combines many things I love: family, great food, drinks, and football! Thanksgiving allows us to reconnect with our loved ones and reflect on what we all have to be grateful for.

One way to get the conversation is to do Table Topics around the Thanksgiving Table or have Thanksgiving Table Topics at your Toastmasters meeting.

Table Topics Questions for Thanksgiving in case your brain is drowsy from all that turkey and stuffing!

• Have your guests state what they are most grateful for (this year, their lives, etc.).
• Share your favorite Thanksgiving dish.
• Share your least favorite Thanksgiving dish.
• Share ways to give back to the community or those less fortunate.
• Get the wishbone from the turkey, have two guests split it, and the winner shares what they wish for. The loser can also share what they would have hoped for.
• Which political figure would you invite over for Thanksgiving dinner? (Check our Election Day Table Topics for more politically centered questions!)
• Which celebrity would you invite over for Thanksgiving dinner?
• Who would it be if you could have dinner with anyone living or dead?
• If you could have one unconventional Thanksgiving food on the menu, what would it be? (eg. pizza)
• Instead of turkey, what would be your main Thanksgiving dish?
• What’s the best gift you have ever received that you were grateful for?
• What’s the best advice you’ve ever received that you were grateful for?

More Thanksgiving Table Topic Questions:

• What’s one thing you would love to do in your life that no one knows?
• Black Friday/Cyber Monday: Wait in line or shop online?
• What item would you wait in line for overnight on Black Friday if you were getting the deal of a lifetime and if money were no object?
• What is your favorite parade balloon from Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade?
• What character would you add to Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade?
• Besides food and football, what tradition would you institute for Thanksgiving Day from now on?
• Tell us your most memorable Thanksgiving memory.
• Go around the table and have everyone state one thing you may not know about them.
• Give us your most creative leftover idea.
• Which would you rather: Eat all your vegetables or do the dishes?

• Go around the table and have the guest say something nice about the person to their right.
• What’s the best book you’ve read, and what made it so special?
• Share about a time when you had a need. How was it met?
• If you could meet your great great grandchildren, what wisdom would you pass on to them? What would you want them to know?

Thanksgiving is the best time to rekindle and strengthen those relationships with friends and family. So put the phone down, break bread, and share some fun table topics questions to get the conversation going. And don’t forget: wine helps.

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