1, cranberry contest
After Thanksgiving dinner, some families often play some traditional games. On the first Thanksgiving, people had many recreational activities, such as dancing and competitions, some of which have been passed down to this day. There is a game called Cranberry Contest, in which a large bowl filled with cranberries is placed on the ground, and 4- 10 contestants sit together and each person gives out a needle and thread.
At the beginning of the game, they threaded the needle first, then strung the cranberries one by one, and it took 3 minutes to arrive; Whoever pulls the longest rope will win the prize. As for the man who strung the string the slowest, everyone jokingly gave him a worst prize.
2. Corn game
There is also an old corn game. It is said that this is handed down to commemorate the issue of five corn to each immigrant in the case of food shortage. During the game. People hid five corn in the house, and everyone looked for it separately. Five people who found corn took part in the competition, while others watched.
At the beginning of the competition, five people quickly peeled corn kernels in a bowl, and whoever peeled them first won the prize. Then people who didn't take part in the competition guessed around the bowl how many corn kernels there were, and the prize with the closest number was a big bag of popcorn.
3. When gratitude is delivered.
You can play a little game with a group of people. Bian Xiao called it "the passing of gratitude". The rules of the game are roughly that everyone forms a circle, and the person on the left says thank you to the person on the right. Every thank you can't be repeated, and familiar people can't sit together.
Through this game, many people will feel deeply. It turns out that there are so many things to be thankful for between strangers.
4. Do a small thing to be grateful
In life, besides the help of people around us, there are many people who have made a lot of contributions to our lives, so we might as well do something small for them on Thanksgiving Day to express our gratitude. Thanks in action are often more deeply rooted in people's hearts than those in words.
There are many people around to thank at ordinary times: aunts in the canteen, uncles in charge of building management and security, counselors, cleaning staff ... let them know that their contributions are also affirmed on Thanksgiving Day.
5. Thanksgiving greeting cards
After the thank-you cards from the company headquarters are sent to the company from the region, the personnel department will send the corresponding number of thank-you cards to the heads of each department according to the number of people in each department (five cards per person). After receiving the card, the department head must write a Thanksgiving greeting to each employee in the department (the greeting cannot be the same) and send it to each employee together with the other four Thanksgiving cards.