43 Funny Thanksgiving Minute to Win It Games

Looking for a way to add extra laughter to your Thanksgiving Day gathering? These funny Thanksgiving Minute to Win It games are the perfect choice! With quick 60 second challenges, these silly and interactive family games will get everyone off the couch and having fun. The best part? They’re simple to set up with items you probably already have at home.

Perfect as Thanksgiving Day games, Friendsgiving games, office holiday games, or even classroom activities, these hilarious one-minute challenges are designed so kids, teens, and adults can all join in.

The whole family can play together, making them a great way to bond, laugh, and create a new family tradition. Whether you’re looking for quick party games to fill time before Thanksgiving dinner or a fun competition after dessert, these Turkey Day Minute to Win It ideas are sure to be a hit!

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Fun Minute to Win It Thanksgiving Games for Families & Friends

Get ready for some friendly competition on Thanksgiving Day with these hilarious Thanksgiving Minute to Win It Games. Great party games for large groups that are perfect for the entire family. 

All ages can play these simple 60-second games, from kids to teens and adults. The best part is all the challenges use simple items you probably have at home or can pick up at the Dollar store.

These fun Thanksgiving games are sure to become your new Thanksgiving Tradition!

Look through the list of our favorite Halloween 1-minute games and pick a few to play at your next Halloween Party!

Add these One Minute Games to our fan favorite printable Thanksgiving Games, and your Thanksgiving Day entertainment will be planned!

Thanksgiving 60 Second Challenges

Quick Note – I use painter’s tape in many games as it doesn’t stick to floors, tables, or walls. Feel free to use any tape you want.

Grab my Printable Thanksgiving Minute to Win It Games with Instructions, Supply List, Game Strips, and Group Scorecard to make setting up the games easy. All the games below are included with easy printable instructions. 

1. Turkey Cup Stacking

Supplies You’ll Need – 42 Solo Cups - Make it Thanksgiving-themed by using orange solo cups or brown cups and drawing a turkey face. 

How to Play – First, split cups into two groups (21 each) and have two players compete against each other. They have one minute to unstack the cups and create a pyramid, then restack the cups back into each other.

Use the timer on your phone for this and write down the time as they finish. When all the players are done, look at the times to find a winner. Just add more cups if you want to have more than two players compete. 

Tip: When stacking cups up, don’t press them tightly together, or they can be hard to get apart.

2. Pine Cone Switch

Supplies You'll Need - Small pine cones, bowls, and forks

How to Play - Players are each given a fork, one bowl filled with pine cones, and one empty bowl. The players have 60 seconds to move as many pine cones as they can using the two forks before the timer is up. 

3. Turkey Baster Race

Supplies You'll Need - Turkey Baster, Feathers, painter's tape

How to Play - On a long table, use the painters' tape to create a finish line on one side of the table. Players will use a turkey baster to try to push a feather across the finish line. The player to push the feather across the finish line first wins. 

4. Johnny Applestack

Supplies You'll Need - 5 Apples per player

How to Play - Players have 60 seconds to try and stack their 5 apples. At the end of the 60 seconds, the player with the most apples stacked at the time the timer goes off wins. 

5. Turkey Pong 

Supplies You'll Need - Orange Ping Pong Balls, Cups

How to Play - Line up cups on one side of a table like a pyramid. Give each player ping pong balls that they will try and bounce into the cups.

6. Shake Your Tailfeather

A funny Junk in the Trunk Minute to Win it Game

Supplies You'll Need - craft feathers, empty tissue box, orange construction paper, belt or strong ribbon

How to Play – This is the most popular Minute to Win It game because it’s so funny to watch. To get ready, take a tissue box and cut a slit on each side to slide your belt or ribbon through to tie the box around a player’s waist. Then fill the tissue box with 25 feathers.

When the timer starts, players shake and jump around to try and get the highest number of feathers out of their box. It’s hilarious to watch.

Make it into a Christmas Junk in the Trunk for holiday parties.

7. Turkey Stomp

Supplies You'll Need - Balloons

How to Play - Fill the room with balloons. Players try to stomp on the balloons and pop them. The player who pops the most balloons in 60 seconds wins.

8. Cranberry Suck It Up

Supplies You'll Need - Uncooked Cranberries, paper plates, straws

How to Play - Give each player an empty plate and a plate with 20 cranberries. They will then use a straw to suck up the cranberries and transfer them to the empty plate. The winner is the player who moves the most cranberries in 60 seconds. 

9. Blow a Feather

Supplies You’ll Need – Craft Turkey Feather

How to Play: Players are each given a craft feather and have to keep it up in the air for 1 minute without using their hands. Most players will use their mouth to blow the feathers up in the air.

10. Keep the Turkey Up

Supplies You'll Need - Orange balloons (draw a turkey face on it) or Turkey Balloons

How to Play - Give each player 3 orange balloons that they need to keep up in the air for 60 seconds. If a balloon falls their out. The players are still juggling the balloons after 1 minute, or who lasts the longest wins.

Tip: Make the game easier for younger kids by using only 2 balloons and harder for older kids, teens, and adults by adding a 4th balloon.

11. Scarecrow Stick It To You

Supplies You’ll Need – Fall colored Sticky Notes- green, orange, purple, brown. 

How to Play – Players will need to team up into small groups for this one-minute challenge. One player will be given a stack of sticky notes and will stick them all over their partner. Then they need to remove all the sticky notes before the one-minute time limit.

Tip: Give a smaller number of sticky notes to younger kids – 15, and a larger number to older kids – 40

12. Chopstick Corn Pick Up

Supplies You’ll Need – A pair of chopsticks for each player, two paper plates for each team, and a bag of candy corn, or orange pom poms. 

How to Play – Give each team two plates with 20 pieces of candy or pom poms on one plate. Have the players move each piece of candy to the other plate using chopsticks in under a minute.

Tip: It is easier for younger kids to pick up squishy pom poms than hard candy corn with chopsticks. Create cheater chopsticks for younger kids by rolling the wrapper between two sticks and wrapping it with rubber bands. 

13. Pumpkin Pickup

Supplies You’ll Need– Orange Pom Poms, tweezers, two bowls or plates per player

How to Play – Each player is given a bowl/plate full of orange Pom Poms, tweezers, and an empty plate. They then have 1 minute to move as many Pom Poms with the tweezers over to the empty bowl as they can before the timer goes off. 

The player with the most Pom Poms moved to the empty plate is the winner.

14. Flick the Football

Supplies You'll Need - Paper folded football, Small buckets

How to Play - Each player is given 5 paper footballs and has 60 seconds to try and flick as many footballs as they can into the buckets across the table. The player with the most footballs in the buckets after one minute wins. 

15. Pumpkin Cup and Roll

Supplies – Orange Ping pong balls, plastic cups, and painter’s tape

How to Play – On a long table or desk, tape 2-5 plastic cups to hang off the edge of the table for each player. The goal of the game is to roll the ping pong balls across the table and into the hanging cup. Whichever player has the most ping pong balls in their cups at the end of a minute wins. 

Tip: If you have limited space, use a different colored cup for each player and just tape one cup for each player to the end of a table. The player will then aim for their own plastic cups.

16. Cookies Face

Supplies You’ll Need – Halloween Oreo Cookies (if you can get them)

How to Play – Players place the Oreo cookie on their forehead and their hands behind their backs. They have one minute to try and get the cookie into their mouth without using their hands. 

17. Candy Corn Stand Up 

Supplies You'll Need - Bag of Candy Corn

How to Play - Each player is given a pile of Candy Corn. When the timer starts, players try to stand up as many Candy Corn pieces as they can before time is up.

18 Turkey Peck

Supplies You'll Need - Paper Plates, Whipped Cream, Candy Corn

How to Play - Players are each given a plate with whipped cream and hidden Candy Corn. They place their hands behind their back and use their mouth to try and peck around to find and pull out as many candy corns as they can before the 60 seconds are up.

19. Turkey Race

Supplies You'll Need - Large Wooden Spoons and Ping Pong Balls

How to Play - This is a team game with 2 players competing against other relay teams. 

First, set up the game by giving each team a wooden spoon and a ping pong ball. Set up a starting line with painter's tape on the floor and set a chair across the way from each team.

When the timer starts, the first player will race around the chair while balancing the ping pong ball on the spoon. Then they pass the ping pong ball onto their teammates' wooden spoon. 

The second player then races around the chair and back to the starting line. The first team back wins.

20. Pumpkin Balance

Supplies You'll Need - Popsicle Sticks, Candy Pumpkins

How to Play - Give each player 4 pumpkin candies and a popsicle stick that they'll place between their teeth. Players have 1 minute to try and get 4 pumpkin candies to balance on the popsicle stick. First to do this wins.

21. Turkey Feet

Supplies You'll Need - Large Shoes that are bigger than the player's feet

How to Play - Each player wears a pair of shoes that is way too big for them. Create a track for the players to run around the room. When the timer starts, players race in the large shoes through the track and back to the starting line. First player back wins.

Tip: This is a great game for kids, tweens and teens. 

22. Pumpkin Seed Spit

Supplies You'll Need - Pumpkin Seeds, Measuring Tape

How to Play - Players are given a handful of pumpkin seeds. Players have 60 seconds to spit the pumpkin seeds as far as they can. When time is up, measure the furthest pumpkin seed and mark it down for each player. Whoever spits the seed furthest wins.

23. Shoot the Turkey

Supplies You'll Need - Rubber Bands, Solo Cups (draw a Turkey on cups)

How to Play - Stack up the solo cups into a pyramid shape at the edge of a table. Players have 60 seconds to shoot rubber bands at the solo cups to try and knock the cups over the table. The player who knocks the most cups over the table when the timer goes off wins. 

24. Football Toss

Supplies You'll Need - Small Soft Footballs, Solo Cups, or Small Buckets

How to Play - This is a team game with 2 players on each team. Teammates stand across from each other with one holding a solo cup and the other 5-6 footballs. Players have 1 minute to try and toss as many footballs into the cup as they can. If time is not up yet, you can pick up footballs from the ground and keep trying.

The team with the most footballs in their cup wins.

25. Thanksgiving Puzzle Race

Supplies You'll Need - Small Thanksgiving Puzzle For Each Player

How to Play - When the timer starts, players need to put together their small Thanksgiving puzzle. The first to finish wins.

26. Turkey Sticker Match

Supplies You'll Need - Hershey Kisses, Small Thanksgiving Stickers with 10 images that have a matching image for a total of 20

How to Play - This game is kind of like Memory. Start by placing Thanksgiving stickers on the bottom of 20 Hershey Kisses. In the middle of a table, place 20 Hershey Kisses with stickers and 20 without stickers.

Players will face off across from each other with kisses in between. When the timer starts, players have 60 seconds to find as many matching Hershey Kisses stickers as they can.

If they pick a kiss without stickers, they put it back in the middle. Only taking out the kisses with stickers that match and placing them on their side. 

The winner is the player with the most Hershey kisses with matching stickers on them after the one-minute timer is up.

27. Find the Hidden Pumpkin

Supplies You'll Need - Pumpkin Candy or Miniature Pumpkin, Paper Cups

How to Play - Place 20 solo cups on a table and hide a pumpkin under one cup. Players have 1 minute to try and find the hidden pumpkin. Write down the time each player finds the pumpkin and the player with the quickest time wins.

28. Stuff a Scarecrow

Supplies You'll Need - Newspaper, long-sleeve shirts, pants, rope

How to Play - Tie off the arms of a shirt and the legs of the pants with the rope. Players will have 1 minute to stuff the Scarecow (pants and shirt) with newspaper. The player with the best stuffed scarecrow wins.

29. Swat the Pumpkin

Supplies You'll Need - Orange Balloon, Fly Swatter

How to Play - Players place one hand behind their back and hold a fly swatter in the other hand. The players must keep an orange balloon up in the air for 1 minute. If it drops, players are out.

Tip: To make it harder for older players, have them play with 2 balloons. 

30.  Pumpkin Patch

Supplies You'll Need - 10 Small Plastic Pumpkins

How to Play - Hide 10 small plastic pumpkins around the room. Players have 1 minute to find all 10 pumpkins.

31. Candy Unwarp

Supplies You'll Need - Wrapped Thanksgiving Chocolate Candies or Hard Candies

How to Play - Place a pile of wrapped Thanksgiving candy in front of each player. They have 1 minute to unwarp as many pieces of candy as they can before the time is up.

32. Flying Pumpkin

Supplies You'll Need - Plastic Spoons, Orange Ping Pong Balls, or Pumpkin Candies

How to Play - Players will pull back on their plastic spoon with the ping pong ball on it and try to shoot it across the room. Players who fling the eyeball the furthest win.

33. Rolling Yam

Supplies You'll Need - Yams, forks, and painter's tape

How to Play - Create a start line and finish line on the floor with the painter's tape. Have each player line up at the start line and give them a yam and a fork.

When the timer starts, they will race to push their yam across the floor to the finish line by using only the fork. The first person to cross the line is the winner. 

34. Turkey Trot

Supplies You'll Need - Cut out Turkey Shapes from Construction Paper

How to Play - Tape the turkey shapes on the floor spaced out across the room. Players have 1 minute to hop on one foot onto each turkey shape to get to the other side of the room. Check the time each player finishes. Best time wins!

35. Corn Pick Up

Supplies You'll Need - Small Bowls, Candy Corn, and plastic spoons

How to Play - Place two bowls in front of players. One is filled with candy corn, and the other bowl is empty. Players place a plastic spoon in their mouth and try and scoop out as many candy corn as they can and drop them in the empty bowl. After one minute, the player with the most candy corns in the previously empty bowl wins. 

36. Touchdown

Supplies You'll Need - Small Foam Footballs and 5 Buckets

How to Play - Place 5 buckets in a row across the room from the players. Give each player 10 footballs to try and throw into the buckets. Once they get a football into one bucket, they move on to the next bucket. The player who gets the most footballs in the buckets wins. 

37. Where's the Turkey?

Supplies You'll Need - A Small Fake Turkey

How to Play - Hide the turkey in the room, and players have 60 seconds to be the first player to find the turkey.

38. Hit the Cornicopia

Supplies You'll Need - Ping Pong Balls and A Conricopia basket ( or any wicker basket)

How to Play - Make teams of two to play this game. One player holds the cornicopia basket and the other is given 6 ping pong balls.

Teammates stand across from each other and have 1 minute to try and throw a ping pong ball into the cornicopia basket. The first player to do this wins.  

Tip - For younger players, stand closer, and for older players stand further apart.

39. Do You Know Your Thanksgiving Food?

Supplies Needed: 5 Bowls or paper cups per player, spoons, a variety of food tastings, and a blindfold

How to Play – One player from each team will have 5 items to taste and needs to identify the foods in under 1 minute. Blindfold one player once they are seated.

We used cheap bandanas and rolled them up for blindfolds. 

When the timer starts, have another player on their team spoon the food item to taste.

See if they can name the food, or need to move on. The player who names the most items correctly in 1 minute wins for their team.

If multiple players name all the items, the player who did it the fastest wins for their team.

Tip: Make sure to ask if anyone has any allergies before you start this game, as they will not be able to see what they are eating.

40. Toss the Turkey Leg

Supplies Needed: Rolled up Socks (your turkey leg), and Several Laundry baskets

How to Play - Place laundry baskets across from each player. Then give each player a bunch of Turkey Legs (rolled up socks). See who can throw the most socks into the laundry basket before the 60 seconds is up. 

41. Turkey Egg Bounce

Supplies Needed: Egg Cartons and White Ping Pong Balls

How to Play: Across from each player on a table, set out an open egg carton. Players have 1 minute to try and bounce a ping pong ball into the egg carton. The player with the most ping pong balls in the egg carton wins.

42. Turkey Waddle Race

Supplies Needed: Balloons

How to Play: Set up a starting line and a chair across the room from each player. Next, have players place a balloon between their legs and line up on the start line. They need to waddle with the balloon between their legs around the chair and back. First to get back to the start line wins!

43. Pumpkin Bowling

Supplies You'll Need - Miniature pumpkins and bowling pins or solo cups

How to Play - Line up bowling pins in the shape of a triangle on the floor for each player. Have the players stand across from the bowling pins. The players will then have 1 minute to roll the pumpkins and try and knock down as many bowling pins as they can. 

The winner is the player who knocks down all the bowling pins first or has knocked down the most pins when the timer goes off. 

Tip: If you don't have bowling pins, stack solo cups into a pyramid and use the pumpkins to knock them down.

Printable Thanksgiving Games

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