Whether you're hard at work in the office or simply relaxing at home, you can get in the mood for holiday festivities by decorating your desktop or notebook computer with a free Thanksgiving Wallpaper background. If you're looking for free wallpapers check out the links on this page for suggestions as well as some tutorials on how you can make your very own Thanksgiving wallpaper. You can find pictures and backgrounds that are Disney cartoons, funny, animated or even in 3D.

You can capture family feasts, parades, foliage and more on film and upload them to your computer to make your own personal Thanksgiving wallpaper.Kodak: Creating Computer Wallpapers

Because many of the sites that offer free wallpapers are ad-heavy, you may want to scan files for malware or viruses before you download them to your computer.

In America the first Thanksgiving is generally referred to as the feast shared between the surviving Mayflower pilgrims at the Plimoth settlement and their Wampanoag neighbors in 1621. However, there have been many accounts of earlier Thanksgiving celebrations, including one held in Canada in 1578, when Martin Frobisher hosted a formal feast to give thanks for surviving the harsh journey to Newfoundland.Scholastic: The First Thanksgiving Feast Twilight Bridge: History and Origin of Canadian Thanksgiving