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Liven up your social media feed with cornucopias, grateful trees, #tablescapes, turkey and pumpkin pie recipes, plus more! Celebrate the fall gratitude season however you choose with topical and creative Thanksgiving videos. Mash up your favorite Thanksgiving memories into a heartfelt slideshow video, transform your funniest moments into Thanksgiving memes, or bring in some sales with festive promo videos. If you’re looking for some turkey season appreciation video ideas, we’ve curated a beginner-friendly list of Thanksgiving content ideas with all the building blocks you need to make a great video. Get started with a ready-to-use video template, then customize with Thanksgiving-themed stock videos, sprinkle on holiday stickers, and top off with some joyful music and jingles. Then share on any video platform you want with our popular aspect ratio presets. Read on to explore 16 Thanksgiving video ideas you can create for free with Clipchamp.
16 Thanksgiving video ideas
1. Slideshow videos
Why settle for a photo album when you can easily arrange your Thanksgiving photos and videos into a memorable slideshow video that's perfect for sharing on social media? Add emotion and atmosphere to your memories with royalty-free holiday music, festive sticker overlays, and unique scene transitions. If you are low on inspiration or time, create bite-sized social media videos with the auto compose feature, and let our AI video editor do the work for you.
2. Traditional dinner recipe videos
Share your family maple-glazed turkey recipe and create a tutorial video on how to make a traditional Thanksgiving meal. Record your recipe video in a bird's-eye view, add on-screen captions explaining steps, measurements and ingredients, and showcase the taste test. We’ve got a template for you equipped with animated transitions and stylized captions perfect for sharing on YouTube.
3. Personalized thank you videos
Share your gratitude and appreciation to your loved ones, customers, or colleagues this Thanksgiving with a personalized thank you video. Create a short video using stock videos and backgrounds quickly to say Happy Thanksgiving or Joyeux Action de grâce for Canadian Thanksgiving. Start with this template and add text animation and ambient background music.
4. GRWM videos
If you're getting ready for a Thanksgiving dinner or special event, create an engaging 'get ready with me' video to share on social media. Record yourself sharing makeup tips and choosing an outfit, and even share cute Thanksgiving memories and stories at the same time. GRWM videos can be vertical for TikTok and Instagram Reels or widescreen for YouTube.
5. Parade highlight videos
Share the joy of Thanksgiving by creating a montage of all your favorite parades and floats over the past years. All you have to do is merge video clips and photos together, add a voiceover of your reactions and commentary, and motion titles displaying the year of the Thanksgiving parade. Share your highlight video to social media and interact with your followers by encouraging them to comment their favorite parade or float.
6. Thanksgiving sale videos
Spread the festive joy and build hype this Thanksgiving with a unique flash sale. Highlight your limited time offer, gift with purchase, or exclusive bundle deals in a scroll-stopping promo video. Just customize a professional sale video template with your own text and branding, then share directly to social media.
7. Zoom or Teams video backgrounds
Make your virtual meetings more engaging and on-theme by creating a Thanksgiving green screen background. Using stick videos like orange hues, pumpkin pies, and turkey stickers, create a Thanksgiving video background for your next meeting that will have your coworkers filling out spreadsheets filled with the Thanksgiving spirit.
8. Thanksgiving DIY décor tutorials
Create a family-friendly video showcasing easy and fun DIY Thanksgiving decorations from paper turkeys and place cards to other holiday-themed ornaments. Using the speed selector, you can turn your how-to video into a timelapse, and even add a webcam video overlay.
9. DIY craft follow-along
Share your favorite DIY Thanksgiving crafts with your followers. Gather some sticks, leaves, and paper gift tags to make a thankful tree. Collect the perfect round rocks and pebbles then equip some paint to whip up some gratitude stones. Walk your viewers through each step using lower-third graphic animations and change scenes with the 3D page turn transition.
10. Thanksgiving meme videos
Want to create your very own Thanksgiving themed meme video? Use home movies or royalty-free stock footage, overlay with meme text, then save your video as a Thanksgiving GIF for easy sharing. You can even select one of our ready-to-use meme templates for faster editing.
11. Inspirational quotes
Say Happy Thanksgiving this holiday season with a sincere quote video. Share what you're thankful for, your favorite gratitude excerpts, and inspire others to share their memorable sayings as well. Just overlay the quote text on an animated background video or use our dynamic template below for easy social media sharing.
12. Thanksgiving #Tablescape video
Share your table-setting expertise with a Thanksgiving #Tablescape video. If you’re a magician with fall-colored placemats and table linens, show your followers how you create the perfect festive aesthetic ahead of the big meal. Show off how much work it takes to arrange your dazzling cornucopia centerpiece, scented candles, and serving dishes with a fast-motion video using the speed controller.
13. Thanksgiving haul video
There’s something mesmerizing about how your Thanksgiving meal looks when it’s fresh out of the grocery bags and laid out on the kitchen bench for all its glory. Likewise with all those Thanksgiving sales finds before they're hung inside the closet. Before you spend hours in the kitchen perfecting your dinner spread or trying on your new threads in front of the bedroom mirror, take a moment to appreciate your shopping skills with a Thanksgiving haul video. Walk your viewers through each item and use video overlay to show close-ups of each item.
14. Thanksgiving video card
Send your Thanksgiving dinner guests something a little more exciting than a paper invite and flick a Thanksgiving dinner video invite into their inbox. Or just share the festive cheer with a Happy Thanksgiving video card. Not only does it save on paper and postage but by adding music you can paint a smile on the faces of your friends and family no matter where they are.
15. Volunteer vlog
If you’re putting some miles on your soul with some charity work to share gratitude and give to the community, you can document your experience with a volunteering vlog. Use picture-in-picture to narrate over the top of your footage of your local soup kitchen or thrift shop.
16. Thanksgiving football reaction video
What better way to relax while all that turkey and pumpkin pie digests than to tune into NFL on Thanksgiving or the CFL Canadian Thanksgiving Day Classic? Gather your fellow supporters and create a live-action reaction video. Capturing all the cheers and boos in real-time then layover your post-game thoughts with a split-screen commentary track.
Create videos beyond the festive season confidently. Explore more ways to create jaw-dropping feed content like aesthetic TikTok videos and start editing videos like an influencer.
Give your social media videos a makeover this holiday season with Clipchamp for free or download the Clipchamp Windows app.
