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Thanksgiving conversation starters for Grandma and Grandpa.
The best Thanksgiving questions ask about a time and a place, not an opinion. Here are 15 that get grandparents telling stories at the table. Tap to draw one, or print the list and pass it around.
Draw a Thanksgiving question
Who cooked Thanksgiving dinner when you were a child, and what was on the table?
The food
- Who cooked Thanksgiving dinner when you were a child, and what was on the table?
- Which dish has been at every Thanksgiving you can remember?
- What is a recipe from your family that nobody makes anymore?
- What was the first Thanksgiving dinner you cooked yourself, and how did it go?
- Was there ever a Thanksgiving where the food went wrong?
Thanksgivings past
- Where did your family spend Thanksgiving when you were ten?
- Who sat at the table then? Who was the storyteller?
- What did you do after dinner: games, a walk, football, dishes?
- Which Thanksgiving do you remember above all the others?
- Was there a year you spent it away from home?
Thanks
- What were you grateful for when you were twenty?
- Who is someone you never properly thanked?
- What is something small that still makes your day?
- What tradition from this table do you hope we keep?
- What is one thing about this family that makes you proud?