The men are watching the football games, the women are in the kitchen putting the finishing touches on dinner, but where are the kids?

Since Thanksgiving is family time most people can’t help but interact with smaller people who short attention spans, and a great need to find something to occupy their time.

Click the highlighted items to a maze and dot-to-dot you can print off, and a Thanksgiving placemat the kids can color and match, brought to you by Disney's family.go.com and DLTK's Growing Together .

A clever activity was also contributed by reader Candice Steelman of Hughson, California, on the DLTK's Thanksgiving pages, and is a fun way to get the children to think of ways to give thanks and remember what the day is for.

Candice said, "It always bothered me that we spent so much time preparing for Christmas, while Thanksgiving just seemed to quietly slip by, so one year I cut large 4s from paper and placed one on each person's plate. Just before dinner, we wrote the things we were thankful for on our cutouts, then took turns sharing our lists. We've been creating our Thankful Fours off and on for 20 years now. This year we'll be introducing our grandchildren to the tradition!"

For a festive way to display your family's Thankful Fours throughout the holiday weekend, punch holes in each one, tie on a ribbon or string, and hang your creations from a light fixture, along a banister, or in a window.

Whatever you do, take the time to be thankful for the people around you and all that you have. In these hard economic times there are so many much worse off than you and this is the holiday specially made for giving thanks.

Happy Thanksgiving!