Outdoor Thanksgiving Decorations
Wednesday October 31, 2007
Happy Halloween! While you're taking down your Halloween decorations after the holiday, it's a good time to start thinking about outdoor Thanksgiving decorations (U.S.). 
About's Interior Decorating site provides step-by-step instructions for making fall wreaths, those classic outdoor Thanksgiving decorations. Bittersweet (pictured here), indian corn and dried ornamental gourds are some of the elements commonly used in fall wreaths. Such elements provide your outdoor Thanksgiving decorations with the harvest theme that is so appropriate for this time of year -- even if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving, per se.
Photo ©2005 David Beaulieu (licensed to About, Inc.)
About's Interior Decorating site provides step-by-step instructions for making fall wreaths, those classic outdoor Thanksgiving decorations. Bittersweet (pictured here), indian corn and dried ornamental gourds are some of the elements commonly used in fall wreaths. Such elements provide your outdoor Thanksgiving decorations with the harvest theme that is so appropriate for this time of year -- even if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving, per se.Photo ©2005 David Beaulieu (licensed to About, Inc.)
Comments
I would like other ideas besides wreaths which is already a standard decoration. Thanksgiving is a major American holiday. Yet because people go beserk over Halloween (which isn’t even an actual holiday though people are acting as though it were) with yard decorations to rival the evergrowing trend of commericalized secular Christmas displays, Thanksgiving gets wedged in with nary a nod. If if weren’t for the turkey dinner, I think this wonderful holiday with its valuable message of thanks (whether one is religious or not)and appreciation for our heritage of immigrants would be all but forgotten. I for one have begun putting a proper perspective on these observances and my few Halloween decorations (the “message” of which is pretty lame after all) are going down November 1st and Thanksgiving decorations are going up… I just need good outdoor decorations that display my pride in my American heritage and humble thankfulness to my Maker.
Excellent point. In fact, I’ll be incorporating your comment in 11/07/07’s blog post.