All About Thanksgiving: The History of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Thanksgiving is a holiday to express thankfulness, gratitude, and appreciation to God, family and friends for which all have been blessed of material possessions and relationships.

Traditionally, it has been a time to give thanks for a bountiful harvest. This holiday has since moved away from its religious roots. In the United States, Thanksgiving Day falls on the fourth Thursday of November. In Canada it is celebrated on the second Monday in October.

The precise historical origin of the holiday is disputed. Although Americans commonly believe that the first Thanksgiving happened in 1621, at Plymouth Plantation, in Massachusetts, there is strong evidence for earlier celebrations in Canada (1578) and by Spanish explorers in Florida (1565). Thanksgiving Day is also celebrated in the Netherlands. A different holiday which uses the same name is celebrated at a similar time of year in the island of Grenada.

(Wikipedia)

Thanksgiving Recipes

• Food Network Thanksgiving Recipes

• Taste of Home Thanksgiving Recipes

• Vegetarian Thanksgiving Recipes from The Veggie Table

Thanksgiving Templates

• Thanksgiving Invitation Templates in Word format

• Thanksgiving Placecards Template

• Thanksgiving Menu Template

Thanksgiving Lesson Plans and Crafts

• Lessons and Crafts from The Lesson Plans Site

• The Teachers Corner

• Education World

• Easy Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids from Kaboose

• Crafts from Enchanted Learning

Thanksgiving Planners

• Martha Stewart Planner (pdf) (Right-click to download to your system)

• iVillage Guide

Thanksgiving Graphics

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Royalty Free Wave Music Files for Your PowerPoint Presentations

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To SAVE, be sure and right-click on the hyperlink and choose Save File As... You can find more information about music in PowerPoint here on our site along with instructions and more musical categories.

• Autumn Leaves (Jazz Genre: Full Song) (Warning: 34.7 MB)

• Ragtime - A great title slide shorter opener for an upbeat presentation

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