The Thanksgiving Skittles party game sneaks gratitude into your fall party without making anyone write a paragraph or cry in front of the cranberry sauce.
This Thanksgiving game or Friendsgiving party idea is a sweet, simple family activity where you say nice things that ends with everyone getting to eat candy. (What can be better than that?!?)
This is a low-prep party game that you play with Skittles candies.
How To Play The Thanksgiving Skittles Party Game
This Thanksgiving Skittles game is a fun family activity for a gratitude game, where everyone can say what they’re thankful for during harvest dinner.
It’s a great ideas for after Thanksgiving dinner party activities, fall activities for kids at a classroom party, or for things to do at a harvest party.
This is an easy DIY party game that you play with — you guessed it! — SKITTLES candy! (And, that’s it!)
It’s a simple game for kids or party guest to show the things they are grateful for during the fall harvest season.
Goal Of The Skittles Game
The goal of this grateful game is to choose a candy color and then give thanks for the item that matches the color of the candy selected. (You’ll make a game “cheatsheet” ahead of time.)
You can either print out your own items or write them down next to a dot of the same color of each candy.
Either way, just make a couple of cheatsheets for the table. (Or, maybe 5 copies. You know someone’s brother will not share. You know who they are…)
For example, your color list may be:
- GREEN: Name a person you are thankful for (and why!)
- YELLOW: Name a place you are thankful for
- PURPLE: Name an object you are thankful for
- RED: Name an event you are thankful for
- ORANGE: Name a food you are thankful for
GAME TIP: These are just examples that we’ve used before, but you can actually make your Skittles colors mean anything you want.
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Skittles Game Supplies
To play the DIY Thanksgiving candy game, you’ll need:
• Bowl of Skittles candies (or other small candies with lots of different colors)
• Paper
• Colored Pencils or Markers (in the same colors of the candy)
*GAME TIP: If you buy different types of Skittles candies (regular, sour, wild berry, etc.) it will give you more colors and allow you to add more gratitude categories.
Skittles Gratitude Candy Game Instructions
Game Setup Before The Party
Make printable game cards by putting a colored dot the same color of each candy piece and then writing something to be grateful for next to each color.
For example, yellow could be “Name something that happened this year that you’re grateful for.”
You can make the gratitude prompts anything you like!
*GAME TIP: If you need gratitude prompt ideas, see the examples we give above. Or, if you’re looking for hysterical game options (uh, always), see the Optional Chaos Add-Ons below.
To Play The Skittles Game
- Place a bowl of Skittles in the center of the table.
- On their turn, a player takes turns closing their eyes and taking out a piece of candy.
- Based on the color of the candy they get, they have to name something they are thankful for based on the matching color from the printable gratitude card.
- Play then passes to the next person until everyone has had a chance to play. Each player can eat their Skittle candy instead of putting it back in the bowl (because, germs. Gross). Just make sure you have enough by placing several large bags of Skittles in the bowl if you’re playing several rounds.
*GAME PLAY TIP: You can even play multiple rounds to give people different opportunities to talk about what they’re grateful for by drawing different colors. It’s especially fun to play multiple rounds if you’re using the Chaos Add-Ons in the next section because it really gets everyone laughing and telling stories.
I hope you have fun playing the Skittles party game with your group!
