Thanksgiving Day is celebrated with Thanksgiving prayers, feast and a host of Thanksgiving fun activities. Thanksgiving gives everyone an opportunity to decorate their homes thus, setting a colorful mood for the festival.
Thanksgiving Day sees people at their creative best. Thanksgiving decorations range widely, from indoor decorations involving decorating Thanksgiving dinner table etc. to outdoor decorations involving decorating the lawn, yard and so on.
Thanksgiving was originally a time to celebrate the harvest season. Thanksgiving traditionally meant enjoying the fruits of labor from an entire season of growing and caring for vegetable plants. With time Thanksgiving celebration has evolved and now enjoying that season might well mean using natural resources to make your home and lawn more festive during the Thanksgiving holiday.
Ideas For Thanksgiving Lawn Decoration
Truly speaking, there can be endless natural ways to add color and life to your Thanksgiving decorations. Here are some interesting easy to follow ideas to decorate your lawn for Thanksgiving festival.
Decorating with Your Thanksgiving Harvest
Thanksgiving lawn decorations popularly involve spending the summer and early fall months planting and growing vine vegetables like pumpkins, gourds or squash. To have these ripen by Thanksgiving, one must plant them at the end of June or beginning of July. Pumpkins, gourds and squash look great in combination for displays on the lawn.
Decorating With Cornstalks
A great way to decorate your lawn is to make us of cornstalks and not chop them down. The brown cornstalks remind us of the season for Thanksgiving. They are a great way to decorate a lamp post or post that supports an awning in the yard. Cornstalks can easily be tied with twine used earlier in the season for staking tomatoes. Keep in mind, in order to slow the cornstalks from decomposing, leave them in ground as long as possible.
Depending on which climate zone you are located at, you may be able to use actual corn too. Though tradition is to display Indian corn but any type of corn husks you still have remaining in your garden will work well. You can display Corn husks in combination with gourds or pumpkins or even cornucopia.
Decorating With Fruits
Traditionally fruits were also part of original harvest season. If you have an orchard, do display its fruits too. You can place them in a cornucopia or even in a simple fruit bowl. Fruits can also be placed in a hay sack. You can use fruits like grapes, apples, oranges, or even pears. Do keep in mind that fruits decompose faster than vegetables and thus must be kept out in the law for short time before Thanksgiving.
Decorating With Tree Leaves
During the fall season your garden and yard is full of those fallen leaves. Instead of treating them as waste you can use them creatively to decorate your lawn. Once you gather the fallen leaves, you can place them on top of a hay sack or around a lamp post that has a corn stalk tied to it. The fall colored leaves look very appealing and original when contrasted with your green colored lawn.
