15 questions to ask at the Thanksgiving table
Ask just one question at the table this year and watch what happens. These are written to work for every generation, so the youngest can ask the oldest. Print the list and drop it by the dinner rolls.
To get everyone talking
- 1.What’s a Thanksgiving you’ll never forget, and why?
- 2.Which family dish has the best story behind it?
- 3.Who taught you to cook something you still make?
- 4.What did holidays look like when you were a kid?
- 5.What’s something you’re grateful for that you’ve never said out loud?
Across the generations
- 6.Grandparents: what was your family’s table like growing up?
- 7.What’s a family saying, and who started it?
- 8.Who in the family do you think about most during the holidays?
- 9.What’s the funniest thing that ever happened at a family gathering?
- 10.What do you hope we still do together in 20 years?
To end the night
- 11.What’s one lesson you’d pass down to the youngest at this table?
- 12.Who would you like to thank, and for what?
- 13.What made this year meaningful for you?
- 14.What story about our family should everyone here know?
- 15.What would you want to be asked next year?
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