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Let your imagination come alive with your creativity to make inviting, beautiful, Thanksgiving decorations with these 20+ DIY Thanksgiving decorations for home. Enjoy for yourself and greet guests to your home with easy ways to refresh your front porch, gather around a beautiful Thanksgiving table setting, get cozy by a lovely fireplace, and enjoy a fabulous Thanksgiving menu.

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Should I Decorate for Thanksgiving?

Yes! Thanksgiving is one of the most favorite holidays of the year. It’s a special time when family and friends gather together to enjoy each other’s company, enjoy wonderful food and take time to give thanks for all they have. Thanksgiving decorations are a beautiful welcome to all those who gather around you.

And what better season to do that in than with the visual vibrant colors of fall beauty all around us. Bringing that beauty indoors and around our homes and showcasing it for friends, family and ourselves adds to the spirit of thankfulness and celebration for all that we have been given.

How can I decorate for Thanksgiving?

As with any decorating, decorate for Thanksgiving according to your style and what you like. You can put Thanksgiving decorations indoors, outdoors or both. You can add Thanksgiving decorations to your dining room table, your walls, fireplace mantel, doors or windows.

It really comes down to what you like. You can add to the ambience by lighting fragrant candles or having potpourri simmering on the stove with seasonal scents like apple cider or pumpkin spice.

Traditional Thanksgiving decorations include a horn of plenty or cornucopia, gourds, pumpkins, corn, pilgrim and Indigenous decor. Traditional flowers used with Thanksgiving decor include yellow sunflowers, orange roses, red carnations and other flowers with rich autumn colors.

DIY Thanksgiving Decorations for Outside

Looking for outdoor Thanksgiving decorations? Thanksgiving door decorations, fall wreaths, pumpkins, and fall florals will make a lasting impression on all who gather at your home before even stepping inside!

Adding pumpkin decor to your front steps or porch is an easy, simple and great way to greet people to your home. When decorating steps with pumpkins you’ve got two options: real and faux and you can do either well these days. Arranging a variety of colors and types of pumpkins in a pattern is pleasing to the eye.

DIY Thanksgiving Decorations for the Table

When you’re hosting Thanksgiving, your table will most likely be the center of attraction. Using plenty of natural items from the outdoors such as pine cones, fall foliage such as branches with coloured leaves, or berries, and pumpkins and gourds make a memorable table setting.

Use pine cones to make a pine cone wreath or use them as individual place card holders. Adding glitter or metallics to your table elevates it up a notch for elegant Thanksgiving decorations. Pumpkins can serve as little details or as the central theme of your decorations.

DIY Thanksgiving Decorations on a Budget

You don’t have to spend a lot of money to have beautiful thanksgiving decorations. Simple candles, Kraft paper, and items from nature all provide ambience and beauty for your Thanksgiving decor.

Buy locally to find cheap pumpkins, gourds, apples and cranberries to use for your Thanksgiving decorations. Then work with what you already have in your home such as vases, candleholders, and jars. Display beautiful free fall printables throughout your home that will delight your family, even your youngest kids.

Reusing old decorations from previous Thanksgiving celebrations is a great idea. It can save you a lot of money over time. Repurpose your old decorations, and make them new again

Bringing in the Outdoors

Go to your backyard and find some beautiful, colorful fall leaves – they will help you decorate almost everything in the house. I love this vase filled with fall leaves, berries and acorns that add beautiful color to your Thanksgiving decorations.

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Berry Branch Centerpiece

“Free up prime dinner-table real estate by moving oversize arrangements to the buffet. And don’t bother with elaborate floral fantasies: Just go “shopping” in your backyard for branches of holly, crab apple, or bittersweet berries. Then bring in-demand items—butter, gravy, cranberry sauce—to the middle of the table.”

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20+ DIY Thanksgiving Decorations for Home

Fall Wheat Centrepiece

A simple but beautiful fall centrepiece with just a package of cranberries and a bundle of wheat.

Thanksgiving Table Setting Decor on a Budget

Using Kraft paper with your own personal touches, rather than a tablecloth is creative, unique and beautiful.

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Outdoor Thanksgiving Decorations

Using pumpkins, fall florals, plants and decorative pots creates a beautiful welcome for all your guests.

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20+ DIY Thanksgiving Decorations for Home

DIY Pine Cone Wreath

Gather some pine cones to create this beautiful and rustic wreath for a great Thanksgiving decor idea.

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DIY Thanksgiving Glitter Top Pumpkin Place Cards

These Glitter Top Pumpkin Place Cards are easy to make and will surely dazzle your guests!

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Easy Thanksgiving Place Cards

Chalkboard Thankful Conversation Starters (Free Printable)

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20+ DIY Thanksgiving Decorations for Home

DIY Pumpkin Planter

Just a simple pot plant inside an external structure like in this case a pumpkin! A simple enough idea indeed, but one that looks simply beautiful.

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DIY Flower Pumpkin Arrangement

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Thanksgiving Napkin Rings DIY

Make your home festive by creating these easy Thanksgiving napkin rings to keep your table feeling warm and inviting.

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20+ DIY Thanksgiving Decorations for Home

Easy Thanksgiving Flower Arrangements

Adding a flower arrangement (fresh, faux or mixed) to you Thanksgiving table setting adds an extra wow factor!

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Thanksgiving Mantel Decor

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Metallic Fall Tablescape DIY

A variety of metallic spray paints was the key to turning the once wooden candlesticks and orange pumpkins into an elegant array of Fall decorations

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20+ DIY Thanksgiving Decorations for Home

Cornucopia Thanksgiving Tablescape

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Easy DIY Origami Maple Leaf

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DIY Couture Pumpkin Decor Anyone Can Create

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My Thanksgiving Planner 

Are you looking to have a more enjoyable, stress-free Thanksgiving? My Thanksgiving Planner will help you do just that! Enjoy spending time with friends and family knowing that you planned well.

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