Thanksgiving Headquarters

I love the holidays -- and I really love Thanksgiving. I am so excited for this group - it gives me a chance to highlight all things Thanksgiving and share them with everyone else. After all, that's what the holiday is all about.

If you have a Thanksgiving lens that you've worked hard on, please submit it here, I'd love to have you join us here.

Thanksgiving Dinner Lenses You Will Love!

Thanksgiving Recipes Video Showcase

Whether it's your first time preparing the big Thanksgiving dinner, or you're a seasoned pro looking for new recipe ideas, I've assembled a helpful collection of cooking videos, especially for Thanksgiving dishes. Get some tips on preparing your turke...

Turducken for the Holidays and Beyond!

"Something's good in the oven....muuuuuust be Turducken..." That's the beginning of a song my daughter thought up the first time I made a Turducken. That was about six years ago, and she was six at the time. I made it for a New Years get together, a...

Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes

Is it your turn to host the family Thanksgiving dinner? Want to throw a warm Thanksgiving party for friends?   Don't let hosting responsibilities drag you down this holiday season. Make-ahead recipes, and a casual atmosphere will make your Thank...

A Lazy Man's Guide to Thanksgiving Dinner

If you came here looking for an easy way to make a classy and complicated Thanksgiving dinner you came to the wrong place (and you ignored the title).  Yep, from the guy who brought you The Lazy Man's Guide To Compost - I give you instructions o...

Awesome Thanksgiving Desserts Lenses

This little guy is really happy to see lenses that don't involve turkey.

Pumpkin Cookies

Like a pumpkin whoopie pie, these pumpkin cookies have a soft, cakey texture and a cream cheese frosting filling. They are great for Halloween parties or for a unique and tasty alternative to pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving.

Tasty Turkey Day Cupcakes

A Cornucopia of Thanksgiving cupcake recipes and ideas for tasty Turkey Day treats that your family and friends will adore. Find links to Thanksgiving cupcake recipes, tasty Thanksgiving treat ideas, cupcake cookbooks, Thanksgiving cake ideas&nbs...

How to Make a Pumpkin Pie from a Real Pumpkin

This lens is about how to bake delicious pumpkin pies made from real pumpkins instead of the canned stuff! Here are some recipes and resources, and a bit of pumpkin history, to get you well on your way to making pumpkin pie the old fashioned way. Ple...

Side Dishes Make Thanksgiving Awesome!

Making Mashed Potatoes

One of the most popular ways to cook potatoes is to mash them.  This lens offers information about types of potatoes, how to keep and store them, and lots of recipe variations for homestyle, low-fat and fancy mashed potatoes.

The Best Fall Harvest Produce

You've heard of "Fall Harvest," but what veggies and fruits are included in this bunch of newly picked produce? There are plenty to choose from, and you can find them everywhere from your farmer's market in the city, the supermarket, or your local ro...

Herbed Apple & Pear Stuffing

This recipe is the perfect update on everyone's 2nd favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner, the stuffing! Spiced apple and fresh pear will give this dish a flavorful punch that will carry on through the turkey as well!

Spiced Cranberry Chutney Recipe

Cranberry Chutney is a great recipe for Thanksgiving that will quickly replace the traditional canned cranberry sauce. With fresh ingredients like real cranberries, raisins and apples, along with aromatic spices like cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice, th...

The Best Cranberry-Recipes Ever

Cranberries are good for you and taste great if prepared properly.  Cranberries are harvested in the fall and are an important part of holiday meals. The cranberry is a source of the minerals calcium, magnesium, potassium, and phosphorus, plus va...

What Makes A Lens Worth Being Thankful For?

• First, it needs to be an "on topic" lens made about some aspect of the Thanksgiving season.


• Second, it needs to be hand crafted, with relevant content (this includes the selling modules - the products offered should all be relevant to the holiday).


• Third, make sure you create new module headers rather than the ones that came with the template.


• Last, check your spelling and grammar - this is very important to a well crafted lens.


• Once you've done these things, please submit your lens to the group and we'll help you share it with the world.

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Vegetarian Thanksgiving Lenses

Vegetarian Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving may seem like a challenging holiday for vegetarians, but it can be a fun adventure.  This is an opportunity to enjoy a variety of great dishes, and at the same time, share the bounty of vegetarian food with your non-veggie friends a...

Thanksgiving Items You Need

You've got to get your cool Thanksgiving accessories somewhere - these lenses will give you a great start on your shopping. You and your house will look fantastic!

Katiyana's Collectibles Thanksgiving Collection

Katiyana's Collectibles makes handmade doll clothes and handmade bear clothes.  One of the holidays that I have designs made up for is Thanksgiving - these are both new designs added to my collection for 2007.  This lens is dedicated to the...

T-Shirts For Thanksgiving

Of course you want to look nice for the big dinner with the family - but what about afterwards?  You can't be expected to lounge about watching football and eating pumpkin pie in your good dress up clothes, right?  Of course not.  I ha...

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Awesome Leftover Ideas!

Turkey Sandwich: The Tastiest Treat Ever

This is how to enjoy your leftover turkey from Thanksgiving, plus don't forget to make the real deal all year long. Bet you'd even like jazzing up your turkey with the rubs listed below! There are quite a few recipes here for making turkey sandwiches,...

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Giving Thanksgiving To Others:

A Day of Hope

A Day of Hope is a program of ASI, at California State University, Stanislaus which gives hope and encouragement by delivering baskets of food and turkeys to families for Thanksgiving. Baskets are delivered to needy families in Modesto and Turlock wh...

Remember The Meaning Of Thanks --

Sometimes during the hustle and bustle of the business of the season, we need to take a moment to try to remember what it is we are celebrating, and what we have to be thankful for...

Count Your Blessings

Count your blessings, this is such a simple charge and a reminder to be grateful for what we have. Yet in the craziness and the hustle and bustle of daily living stopping to be grateful and count our blessings is often one that we fail to overlook. C...

Why You Should be a Vegetarian, by Tom T. Turkey

The one time a year when most people really do try to think of things to appreciate in their own lives is Thanksgiving. Its too bad we don't spend more time all year round on this pursuit though. I always have my students write this essay around the...

Thanksgiving is not only about Turkey

Thanksgiving is a North American harvest festival. When the Pilgrams (a Puritan sect) arrived in America to start a new life there, they set up colonies and grew crops. They celebrated Thanksgiving as an act of gratitude to God for their new life.

Living Life with Gratitude

Many of the simple things in life can be reasons for being grateful. These are often things that we tend to take for granted--our health, family, friends, our livelihood--until they are brought to our attention or taken away. Remembering to be grate...

Give Thanks at Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a perfect time to stop for a moment once a year and remember to give thanks. It's a time to be grateful for one's health, family, friends, job, home and having food on the table. Take a few moments as you read through this lens and to...

Thanksgiving Fun & Information

Thanksgiving Lapbook

Take a break from your regular homeschool curriculum and have a Thanksgiving unit study! History, culture, and food all come together in this topic! Create a lapbook to record what you learn. This page will direct you to great books to read and free...

The Cornucopia

I love Thanksgiving.  I love everything to do wtih Thanksgiving.  And, to me, nothing says Thanksgiving better than a pretty cornucopia.  When I learned that the cornucopia had it's beginnings in mythology, I liked it even better. ...

The Thanksgiving Tale of Tobias Turkey

Tobias Turkey is a determined little turkey who wants to win the prize for being the biggest turkey on Farmer Joe's Farm. This Thanksgiving Tale by Sandra Robbins can lead into a unit study of domestic turkeys with poems, crafts, math activities and...

Thank You Quotes and Sentiments

If you're looking for sentiments to say thank you, look no further. I've organized sentiments, quotes, ideas and poems for you to use in emails, cards, letters, and craft projects. Think about printing some of these on pretty paper and giving a stack...

Family Thanksgiving Traditions

Thanksgiving is a time for reflecting on all your blessings from the past year, getting together with your family (even if they are crazy), and of course, eating a big 'ole turkey until you feel stuffed yourself. Speaking of turkeys - according to th...

More Fun For Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Trivia Questions And Answers

1. Most folks know that Americans celebrate a Thanksgiving Day, but they aren't alone. What event is celebrated in The Virgin Islands on Oct. 25? A. A Thanksgiving Day to rejoice in the end of the hurricane season B. A Thanksgiving Day to celebrate t...

Thanksgiving Party Games

Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate all the good things in our lives.  For me, the two things I am most thankful for are family and friends.  When we get together for family celebrations and parties  I love playing games.  There a...

Thanksgiving Costumes

Dressing up in costumes isn't just for Halloween anymore! Celebrate Thanksgiving with a traditional Pilgrim costume! Part of a school play about the first Thanksgiving? Find your costume here!

Squidoodles for Happythanksmasaween

The idea for the Squidoodle* lens came from a posting on the Squidu Forum. One post lead to another...one became SquidYule Carols, another, the Squidoodle page. Here is a collection of the Happythanksmasaween* Holiday inspired Squidoodles (a.k.a Squi...

Thanksgiving Trivia...Why Turkey --- Let Them Eat Goose...

By Sharon Stajda,In the year 1621 the Plymouth colonists, and Wampanoag Indians celebrated the very first Thanksgiving. Was the main dish turkey? Hate to break this to you, but no--- it was not. The fact is it appears the pilgrims chos...

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Funny Thanksgiving Lenses

Thanksgiving Horror Stories

Did you burn the bird?  Was Uncle Harry a louse?  Do you relate to "A Christmas Story" when the mangy Bumpus Hounds took off with the Turkey?  This is the site for you!  I'm sure we all can recount stories of Thanks...

Turkey Dinner Yum

Turkey dinner is a favorite among many over Thanksgiving and the Christmas holidays.  I know every year I always try to look on the internet for turkey tips on safety, cooking, and storing my turkey.  This lens is an attempt to make it easy...

These Thanksgiving Lenses Are Fresh!

These lenses have been recently updated -- give them another look!

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Thanksgiving Lenses On Shopping

Whether we like it or not, or even want to admit it, shopping is an inevitable part of Thanksgiving.

Black Friday Online Shopping

Get ready for the biggest shopping event of the year: Black Friday. But don't hustle and bustle through the crowds. Instead, check out all the exclusive online deals from FabulousSavings merchants. Simply click on the bargain you want, and it’s...

Black Friday vs Cyber Monday

Did you know Black Friday isn't the busiest shopping day of the year? It's true! The busiest shopping days often fall on the 2 weekends before Christmas. There is actually a sharp decrease in sales after Black Friday, then an increase again as Christ...

Cyber Monday

Forget waiting in line at 6am. Now you can get the best deals and order from the comfort of home on Cyber Monday. As people become more and more comfortable shopping online, it's no surprise Cyber Monday was created. The "Black Friday" of o...

Thanksgiving Shopping

What'll you be thankful for this November 22nd? Give thanks to your family for always being there. Show gratitude to your friends for their understanding. Thank those who bring happiness and laughter into your life and those with good intentions. Wh...

Black Friday

What kind of deals drive millions of people to shop on the Friday after Thanksgiving?  What is it that makes folks get up at 4am to shop? Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving and the unofficial beginning of Christmas Shopping (even though C...

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