What's in the Thanksgiving icon set
Ready today: turkey, pumpkin pie, maple leaf, corn, slice of pie, falling leaves and 3 more (free) and pilgrim hat, roast turkey, gravy boat, cranberry sauce, harvest basket, scarecrow and 15 more (Pro).
On the table: a whole turkey, a roast turkey on its platter, a drumstick, a gravy boat, a bowl of cranberry sauce, a soup bowl and a cooking pot, with a fork and knife, a chef hat, a glass of wine and a mug of apple cider. For dessert, a whole pumpkin pie, a slice of pie and an apple. From the field, corn, wheat, a pumpkin, a hay bale, a harvest basket, a scarecrow, an acorn, a pine cone and a mushroom. And for the season itself, a maple leaf, a plain leaf, falling leaves, an autumn tree, a candle and a heart with a small sprout growing inside it, for the thankful part of the day.
Every one is stroke-only, on a 48 × 48 grid, with a chunky 3.4 stroke and round ends, like the rest of Doodle Icons. Where the library already had a part, the new drawings borrow it as drawn: the cider is the coffee mug with the apple icon on its side, the harvest basket is the shopping basket with apples in it, and the pilgrim hat sits on the witch hat's brim. That is why a turkey can sit next to a calendar, a map pin or an email icon from the main set and the page still looks like one person drew it.
Where Thanksgiving icons come in handy
Dinner menus and place cards
Put a small icon beside each course on a printed menu: the turkey by the main, the gravy boat and cranberry sauce by the sides, a slice of pie by dessert and the cider mug by the drinks. On place cards, one maple leaf in a corner next to each name is plenty. Print from the still SVG so the lines stay crisp at any size, and set the ink to suit your card stock.
Invitations and Friendsgiving potlucks
A turkey at the top of the invite with the date and address underneath does the job. For a potluck, make a sign-up sheet with one icon per dish (pie, corn, cranberry sauce, gravy, cider) so everyone can see at a glance what is still missing, and nobody has to scroll back through the group chat to find out who said they would bring the stuffing.
Newsletters and holiday-hours emails
Shops, cafés and offices send the same note every November: closed Thursday, open again Friday. A small leaf or a slice of pie beside the hours makes it read less like a form letter. Gmail and Outlook don't display SVG images, so use the transparent PNG and give the image tag a fixed width, such as 48 pixels, which keeps the 512px file sharp on high-resolution screens. The animation won't play in an inbox.
Slides, classrooms and gratitude boards
A harvest unit, a lesson on the holiday's history, or a gratitude board where everyone adds one thing they're thankful for. The icons are outlines with no fill, so printed large they double as coloring sheets for younger kids. On a slide, let one icon draw itself in next to the title and keep the rest still.
Social posts and stories
Instagram and TikTok don't take SVG uploads, so the animation can't travel as a file. Play the icon in a browser and screen-record it for a short clip, or bring the still SVG or PNG into Canva and build the post around it.
Recipe blogs and seasonal web pages
A recipe site can mark its categories with them: mains with the roast turkey, sides with the corn, desserts with the pie, drinks with the cider. For a November banner or an empty state, the animated SVG draws itself in as the page loads. The icons share a grid and a stroke with the full library, so a seasonal swap doesn't clash with the rest of the interface.
Formats and how to download
Pick a free icon above to open its page. It downloads as a still SVG, a transparent 512px PNG or an animated SVG, with no sign-up. The animated file draws its strokes in order, each one starting just before the last one finishes, so the turkey's tail feathers appear one at a time; then a standard SVG filter keeps the line gently boiling. The draw-on is CSS inside the file, so it plays in modern browsers inline or as an <img>.
Many slide apps and design tools import an SVG as a still drawing, or not at all. Because the animated file keeps its strokes hidden until its animation runs, it can come out blank there, so use the still SVG or the PNG in those apps.
If you build in React, the free library is on npm as @oreo-design/doodle-icons: mount <BoilFilter> once, then pass boilId to each icon for the wiggle and draw for the entrance. New drawings reach the package in its next release, so until then download them from their icon pages. Pro icons come in one zip with animated SVGs, static SVGs and React components.
Free vs Pro
Of the 30 Thanksgiving icons on this page, 9 are free: turkey, pumpkin pie, maple leaf, corn, slice of pie, falling leaves, autumn tree, pumpkin and leaf. They are released under the MIT license, so you can use them in personal and commercial work without asking. The other 21, from the pilgrim hat, roast turkey, gravy boat and cranberry sauce to the rest of the table, come with Doodle Icons Pro.
The whole free set is 203 icons today. Pro adds 1,708 more in the same hand, plus every new batch on the way to 2,000, for a one-time payment: $39 for the first 100 orders, $69 after that. There's no subscription, and you have 14 days to ask for a full refund.
Tips for a warm, hand-drawn Thanksgiving layout
- Warm up the ink. The SVG files from this site use a near-black ink (
#2b2a33). For a rustic menu, change thestrokevalue in the still SVG to a deep brown or a burnt orange; in the animated file the color sits in its<style>block. The React icons usecurrentColorand follow the text color around them. - Mind the background. Dark ink reads well on kraft paper and wood-grain prints; over a dark photo of the table, switch the stroke to off-white.
- Fill the outlines. Every icon is a line drawing with no fill, so in a design tool you can tuck a soft blob of orange behind the pumpkin pie or a yellow one behind the corn and keep the ink line on top.
- Mix sizes. One big turkey with a few small falling leaves around it makes a quick header, and because the icons are vectors, every size stays sharp.
- Keep the motion to one icon per screen. A whole table of boiling doodles gets busy, so let the turkey draw itself in and use still versions for the rest.
- Check your print size. The still SVG prints sharp at any size. The 512px PNG covers about 1.7 inches at 300 dpi, which is plenty for a place card or a gift tag and too small for a poster.
Thanksgiving icons through the whole fall
The season runs longer than one Thursday. Canada celebrates Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October, and many of these drawings, like the leaves, the autumn tree, the pumpkin, the corn, the hay bale and the acorn, suit a harvest festival, a farmers market sign or a fall sale from September on.
In the weeks before, the Halloween icons carry the same pumpkin into October, and once the leaves are down the Christmas icons take over. More leaves, trees and garden things are on the flower icons page, and the animal icons page has an owl and a squirrel if you want a few woodland guests at the table.
Thanksgiving icons FAQ
Some are. Turkey, pumpkin pie, maple leaf, corn, slice of pie, falling leaves and 3 more are free; pilgrim hat, roast turkey, gravy boat, cranberry sauce, harvest basket, scarecrow and 15 more come with Doodle Icons Pro, a one-time purchase. Free icons are MIT-licensed for personal and commercial use.
Yes, two. The turkey is the live bird seen from the front, round body and fanned tail feathers, and it is free. The roast turkey is the cooked bird on its platter, for menus and recipes, and it comes with Pro. There's also a drumstick, which comes with Pro.
Yes, for the free ones: each free icon's page has a transparent 512px PNG next to the still and animated SVGs. Pro icons come as animated and static SVG files plus React components.
Yes. Free icons are MIT-licensed. Pro icons can go on physical and digital products you sell, such as T-shirts, mugs, cards, stickers and printables, as long as they're part of your own design. What the Pro license rules out is selling or sharing the icon files themselves, or putting them in a product whose main purpose is offering icons, like an icon library, font or template marketplace. The terms have the details.
Yes. Most of the drawings are about food and the harvest rather than one date, so they suit Canadian Thanksgiving in October, a Friendsgiving, a harvest festival or a fall menu just as well. The leaves, autumn tree, pumpkin, corn, acorn and hay bale carry a September-to-November theme on their own.
That's the boil. Old hand-drawn cartoons redrew every frame, so lines never landed in quite the same place. Each icon cycles through six of those frames for as long as it's on screen; on this site, reduced-motion settings show them still.