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Decorating for Thanksgiving

Laura Lee
Nov 14, 2022

You may not know this but you can actually decorate your home for Thanksgiving. That’s right, many people think that you can or shouldn’t simply because Christmas is soon after. However, there are a variety of decorations that you can use to decorate your home for Thanksgiving. Now you may be worried that you won’t be in time to decorate your home for Christmas. Don’t be. You see, once Thanksgiving is over, you will be able to take all your decorations down and simply replace them with Christmas decorations. With that said, there are a few tips that you can use to decorate your home for Thanksgiving.

Colorful pumpkins decorated with handwritten words “‘tis the season to be thankful.”

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The first thing you need to know about Thanksgiving is that there is in fact a color pallet that you should follow. Thanksgiving is a holiday that happens during the fall/autumn season. This means that traditionally it follows fall colors. Therefore you should look into decorating your home with colors like orange, green, and red. See, it isn’t far off from Christmas decorations. Now that you have your color pallet, you should know what type of decorations you should look for. You may be surprised to know that there are actually a wide variety of Thanksgiving decorations that you can purchase.

This also means that you can allow your creativity to run wild. The first decoration you can look into would be a turkey. Now we aren’t talking about an actual turkey. Instead, we are talking about one that is simply used as decoration. Next, you can use pumpkins. Seeing that fall is pumpkin season, they make for great decorations. Another great idea would be to use lights that are within the color palette. Lastly, you can make use of different craft leaves. Leaves or well-fall-colored leaves are a big part of Thanksgiving decorations.