Understanding Thanksgiving Color Schemes

Series Summary

Thanksgiving is a time when family and friends get together and celebrate the good things in life. And what better way to celebrate than with a feast that could feed a small country? Kick back and watch as old sibling rivalries lose their power, subdued by a glut of mashed potatoes, gravy, and tryptophan-injected turkey. Allow the food coma to take hold, and then slip over to the living room, turn on a football game or heartwarming holiday movie, and drift into oblivion as you digest the best meal you’ve eaten all year, hands down.

In this free video series, watch as Matt Cail teaches how to decorate for the Thanksgiving holidays. Learn how to use paper, balloons, pumpkins, plates, knick knacks, streamers, candles, and art to make your Thanksgiving a festive and beautiful gathering that will be remembered even after the world comes to an end and life as we know it has ceased to exist and cannot be found even in the collective memories of the fading atoms and molecules that use to comprise this cold, dark world. Let the experts at ExpertVillage help you to make your Thanksgiving decorations amazing.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show you how to add some festive decorations to your Thanksgiving Day. When people think about Thanksgiving they don't always think about decorations to put up. It's interesting because Halloween you obviously have your jack o lanterns, ghouls and goblins. Christmas you have your trees, elves and Santa Claus even. But Thanksgiving soon as there is a little gap for people it's less intuitive actually what is associated with it and what you put up to kind of do some decorations for Thanksgiving. Well today we are going to be covering a lot of different things but the first step is getting our color straight. No matter what you put up for Thanksgiving there is a nice color scheme that you can keep in mind to kind of guide your efforts and make it look more better. So what colors do we think of when we think of fall? This is really our first guide map and one of those of course is yellow. Yellow is a great color for all Thanksgiving for everything a lot of items are going to be talking about today is yellow. Yellow is your first good color to keep in mind. Another good color is orange, orange pumpkin, orange now we are not actually over doing on the orange because again that is Halloween. But orange is also very important but sort of third color of Thanksgiving is brown, various shades of brown. It's also really great I mean think about this these are all the colors you're going to see when you are going outside for fall and they are also the colors that work best for Thanksgiving."