Thanksgiving Dinner Conversation Starters {free printable}

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Asking open-ended questions is a great way to engage in meaningful discussion with your family and friends! Instead of merely asking “how was your day?,” try these conversation starters! Have a lovely dinner!

What a fabulous way to create meaningful conversations around the Thanksgiving table! We'll be starting this tradition this year!!

This is such a simple thing to add to your Thanksgiving dinner, but I think it will be one of the most meaningful.

I will be using these conversation starters with my family for the first time this year! My hope is that it will be a great way to get some good conversations going. Maybe we’ll even make it a new tradition!

I typed up 8 seemingly not-too-deep questions or statements to inspire quality conversation surrounding this season of gratitude. I did throw in a “what do you want for Christmas” question. That’s just to help people out of they are secretly needing some gift ideas for their family members. You’re welcome. ☺️

What a fabulous way to create meaningful conversations around the Thanksgiving table! We'll be starting this tradition this year!!

My husband added the “what’s your most embarrassing holiday moment.” I almost didn’t include it because I couldn’t think of anything embarrassing. But evidently he could come up with more than one for himself. We’ll just say that he acknowledges that he sometimes suffers from the foot-in-mouth-syndrome.

I love the simple leaf outline and thought it looked pretty with a twig of boxwood. But it looks great by itself, too, if you’re not keen on putting shrubbery on your plate right before dinner.

You could wrap them with a cloth dinner napkin or set them next to the plates. Or even just put them all in a bowl in the middle of the table and let people draw for questions.

What a fabulous way to create meaningful conversations around the Thanksgiving table! We'll be starting this tradition this year!!

Recently I heard a prominent speaker talk about the idea of having one conversation at a large dinner party. It was a special occasion and the event had hosts at each dinner table. The hostess said that there was only rule that night: there could only be one conversation at a time at the table. No little side conversations would be permitted.

At the onset, I might think someone was rude telling me who I could or could not talk to! But his explanation made sense. One conversation forced everyone to get to know each other. And it forced people to listen to one another. He said it was one of the best dinners he’d ever attended. And now he and his wife implement the same rule in their home.

What a fabulous way to create meaningful conversations around the Thanksgiving table! We'll be starting this tradition this year!!

I’m not going to be implementing any new dinnertime rules in my house. Well, maybe that you have to sit up in your seat and eat all of your dinner. #lifewithkids

But, I think it’s a superb idea for a larger social gathering like Thanksgiving. At least my family Thanksgiving is large since there are 24 people with just my parents, siblings, their spouses and my nieces and nephews.

What a fabulous way to create meaningful conversations around the Thanksgiving table! We'll be starting this tradition this year!!

And these conversation starters will keep everyone all together.

Now, you can use them one of two ways, in my mind. You can have one person read the question and then answer it for himself and then move on to the next question. Or, you can read one question and then everyone gives their answer. It probably depends on how many people you have and how long you want to stay.

What a fabulous way to create meaningful conversations around the Thanksgiving table! We'll be starting this tradition this year!!

I hope you enjoy this free printable! I printed mine out on kraft paper, and cut them out by hand.

The printables include 8 pre-written starters and then left 4 of them blank for you to add your own questions. Remember, it’s for personal use only! Thank you!

GRAB the FREE Thanksgiving Conversation Printables HERE!

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11 Comments

  1. After trying twice to download the starters I post to you. When you posted back I couldn’t get that set of starters to open either., Is there just some way to get the starters straight from you, so I will have them ready for use next fall? Thank you

  2. I subscribe to your website; and got access to the thanksgiving downloads, but only got the questions and not the leaves they were on; what am I doing wrong, is there something else i need to download?

    1. Hi Nan, I’m so sorry I’m just now seeing this! I know this was from last year, but I hope you can at least use them this year! E-mail me at [email protected] if you’re still having trouble. (There should have been two pages to download so you would get both the questions and the blanks!) Hope this helps!

      xo, Laura

  3. Hey Laura! Are these still available? I’m already a subscriber but I went ahead and entered my info so I could download these and . . . nothing came to my inbox. Can you help? Thanks!

  4. I love this idea so much! What a great way to get people talking and to open up, making everyone more comfortable with each other. I also love the idea of having ONE conversation. With such a big group, sometimes that’s hard, but setting the precedence before helps a lot. Thank you! I will be using these on Thanksgiving!! xoxo

  5. I like the idea of having only one conversation, and I don’t think I’ve heard that anywhere before… I think it would be really easy with a smallish group, but depending how big your table is (or how loud your guests are!) it might be a bit more trickier to.

    I think I’ll try that at our next family/friends get together, great idea!

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