Count your blessings, not the decorating bills this holiday season. Plan to use inexpensive Thanksgiving decorations, like gourds and other seasonal items. Look to nature for fall decorations, because the harvest season is rich in vibrant color that will spruce up your holiday decor.

Fall Decorations
Squash and gourds tend to be ripe in the autumn and these can be used as inexpensive Thanksgiving decorations. Some artists dry and scrape the gourds out and paint them to make birdhouses and other cheap home decor items. You can use fresh gourds and squash in arrangements on a platter, in a bowl or simply sitting on your Thanksgiving dinner table.

Holiday Decor for Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving offers several themes that can spawn off into decorating ideas. Pilgrims and Indians are often used in school celebrations, and the whole idea of the feast of foods, the Indian corn and cornucopia can be festive. The changing colors of the leaves can inspire a decorating theme that pulls in elements from other seasons. Bright golds and oranges that were meant for hot summer can be reused as fall colors, with reds and browns. The pumpkin holiday decorations from Halloween can be left out for Thanksgiving decor, as long as they aren't carved with faces!

Count your Thanksgiving Blessings
You can decorate with your blessings, how is that for cheap Thanksgiving decor? Visit your local craft store and use their die-cut machine to cut several leaves from scrapbooking paper or even construction paper. Have everyone in the home write their blessings on the backsides of the leaves and hang them from a branch or inside a window. Let them serve both as thanksgiving decorations and as constant reminders that you are blessed.

Get creative, use your imagination. Gourds, Indian Corn, roasted nuts and dried flowers, leftover halloween pumpkins, and plenty of other food items can be used as inexpensive Thanksgiving decorations. You can add decorative items made from nature and incorporate fall colors from decorative elements used at other times of the year. Finally, you can use your blessings to create a memorable Thanksgiving decoration in your home. When the season ends, store the non-food decorations away for next year.