30 Festive Thanksgiving Charcuterie Board Ideas
These beautiful fall and Thanksgiving charcuterie boards are sure to make an impression at holiday parties! With meats, cheeses, and a few outside-the-box boards, you’re sure to find something you’ll love.

Charcuterie Boards for Thanksgiving
It’s Thanksgiving day and you have hungry guests arriving at your house well before the meal will be ready. If you don’t want to cook even more than you already are, a charcuterie board is a great option for an appetizer that will please everyone and keep you relaxed that day.
Not sure where to start? I’ve compiled all of the very best Thanksgiving charcuterie board ideas so you can make yours the most delicious and beautiful it can be!
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Tips for Making a Thanksgiving Charcuterie Board
- Use lots of seasonal fruits to add a variety of flavors, textures, and fall colors. Pears, pomegranates, persimmons, cranberries, and apples are all in season during the fall and make a perfect addition to a cheese board.
- Keep the Thanksgiving theme going with seasonal garnishes. Mini pumpkins and other seasonal produce, such as rosemary and fresh cranberries, are perfect for this.
- For a truly stunning board, fill in any empty spaces. Once you’ve arranged the larger items such as meats, cheeses, crackers, and bread, fill in every little open space with items of different sizes. I like to use small fruits, nuts, chocolates, and garnishes to fill in the gaps.
- Offer cheese knives for soft cheeses like goat cheese and brie and a spreader for spreads, like jam and mustard.
- Feel free to get creative with what you add to your board. It doesn’t just have to be meat, cheese, and crackers. Try adding unique candies, salty snacks, and vegetables to give your guests some variety.
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Thanksgiving Charcuterie Board Ideas
Fall-Themed Charcuterie Boards
Make your holiday extra festive with these elegant fall-themed charcuterie boards.
Thanksgiving Charcuterie Board - Foxes Love Lemons
With fresh persimmons, maple leaf cookies, and plenty of meats and cheeses, this gorgeous Thanksgiving charcuterie board will add a festive fall element to your Thanksgiving spread. Best of all? It comes together in under 30 minutes!
Fall Charcuterie Board
This board is absolutely gorgeous and abundant with delicious savory meats, slices of cheese, fruits, and seasonal specialties. If you aim to impress, follow the simple instructions for this incredible board!
Easy and Beautiful Thanksgiving Charcuterie Board
This board is a show-stopper, packed with a huge variety of seasonal textures and colors. Follow Andrea’s step-by-step instructions to have your own stunning Thanksgiving board.
Thanksgiving Charcuterie Board - Delicious Table
This board pulls out all of the Thanksgiving stops with real decorative pumpkins, pumpkin-shaped brie, and seasonal produce. It is just as beautiful as it is delicious.
Thanksgiving Turkey Cheese Board Recipe
Go for a cute and festive board with this turkey cheese board. With lots of delicious hard cheeses, crackers, and meats, you can create an adorable turkey-shaped spread perfect for celebrating Turkey Day.
Fall Charcuterie Board - Happy Honey Kitchen
This beautiful charcuterie board is the perfect addition to your Thanksgiving spread with a stunning salami rose, seasonal fruit, and plenty of savory bits and bobs. Add beautiful garnishes around the table to get that festive yet elegant look!
Fall Charcuterie Board - I Heart Naptime
This fun board branches out a bit from the traditional meat, cheese, and crackers to include seasonal delights like caramel corn and pumpkin cookies! Learn how to make your board even more well-rounded in this recipe.
Fall Charcuterie Board - Pizzazzerie
This is the ultimate fall charcuterie board. With all things orange, pumpkin, and apple, you can’t get more autumn than this. It’s loaded with tasty bites and wonderfully festive for the season!
Holiday Cheese Board
This charcuterie board is simple, elegant, and perfect for the holiday season. With special seasonal touches like pomegranate seeds and rosemary, this board just feels warm and cozy.
Autumn Cheese Board (Vegetarian)
I love the dark and moody look of this autumn cheese board. With pumpkin hummus and fall fruits, it is perfect for an elegant fall party.
20 Minute Thanksgiving Cheese Board
Need a cheese board fast? This recipe lays everything out for you very simply and clearly so you can have a delicious Thanksgiving appetizer in under 20 minutes.
Fall Thanksgiving Charcuterie Board
Need ideas for your charcuterie board ideas? All of these excellent recipes have them, but this one is absolutely loaded with inspiration for what you put on your board. It will have you excited to get creative with your Thanksgiving board!
How to Make a Fall Cheese Board with Trader Joe's Finds
Trader Joe’s is my number one stop when I’m making a charcuterie board and Jazzmine at Dash of Jazz agrees! She shares all of the best ingredients to grab at TJ’s to make this beautiful and easy fall cheese board.
Thanksgiving Appetizer Boards
Branch out from the classic meat and cheese board with these fun and creative appetizer boards.
Mediterranean platter (with 7 easy recipes)
While untraditional, you can’t go wrong with this lovely mezze platter at your Thanksgiving gatherings. With 7 easy-to-make recipes for tasty dishes like olive fig tapenade, ricotta cheese spread, and seasoned fresh mozzarella, this board will be impressive and tasty.
Fruit Charcuterie Board
For light and fresh Thanksgiving appetizers, fruit boards are at the top of the list. This absolutely stunning fruit board is loaded with berries, figs, pomegranate seeds, and more arranged in a fruit smorgasbord. Add a yummy dip to it and you have yourself the perfect appetizer.
Fun Turkey Veggie Tray Appetizer for Thanksgiving
This cute and fun turkey veggie board is the perfect addition to your Thanksgiving dinner. Everyone needs to get those veggies in, even during the holidays, and this board makes it fun and tasty.
Sweet and Savory Caramel Apple Charcuterie Board ⋆ DelMarValicious Dishes
Fall calls for caramel and apples and this board delivers. With a homemade caramel pumpkin pie dip, apples, caramel, and other snacky items, this board is perfectly seasonal and absolutely delicious.
Mediterranean Grazing Board
For a lighter and healthier option without sacrificing flavor, go with this fresh Mediterranean grazing board. Loaded with colorful ingredients such as quinoa tabouleh, red pepper hummus, and tons of fresh veggies, this board is perfect for some light grazing.
Italian Antipasto Board Appetizer
Add a delicious Italian touch to your Thanksgiving charcuterie with this antipasto board. With a variety of meats, cheeses, and savory vegetables like olives and artichoke hearts, this board is sure to have a little something for everyone. Best of all, it includes a recipe for delicious garlicky herb dressing to drizzle over the board!
Vegetarian Charcuterie Board with Hummus Flight
Need a board that’s light, fresh, and meatless? You can’t go wrong with this delicious veggie board with a hummus flight. Your guests will love trying three different types of homemade hummus and they’ll still have plenty of room for dinner. Everyone will enjoy this flavorful and healthy Thanksgiving appetizer!
Butter Boards for Thanksgiving
Make your bread and rolls more fun by serving these creative butter boards with seasonal ingredients.
Autumn Butter Board
This unique butter board is sure to impress with loads of seasonal ingredients that add flavor, texture, and visual appeal. With apple butter, rosemary, apples, and Marcona almonds, the flavor of this butter board is out of this world.
Roasted Fig and Rosemary Butter Board
Another herby and sweet butter board, this one is perfect for dipping fresh bread and rolls in before (or during!) your Thanksgiving dinner. It’s hard to beat the flavor of fresh figs, honey, rosemary, and orange.
Roasted Garlic Butter Board with Fig Jam
This roasted garlic butter board is loaded with savory-sweet flavor. Roasted garlic compliments fig jam in a surprising and memorable combination. Your guests will love this board to add more of a savory element to the butter board spread!
Dessert Boards for Thanksgiving
Make Thanksgiving dessert more special with a beautiful dessert board.
Thanksgiving Dessert Charcuterie Board
This dessert board is beautiful, festive, and full of delicious treats! With a cream cheese pumpkin dip and lots of fun dippers, your guests will love snacking on this board after dinner.
How to Make A Holiday Dessert Board with Homemade Cheesecake Truffles
A contrast to the dessert boards with cookies and candy, this dessert board is a sweeter take on a classic cheese board. With cranberry cinnamon goat cheese truffles, stacks of fruit, nuts, and dried fruit crackers, this lovely board is perfect for grazing in the evening following your Thanksgiving meal.
Easy dessert Charcuterie board (with store bought ingredients)
If you need a quick but impressive dessert spread, this is your recipe. This beautiful dessert board is made with store-bought dips, cookies, and candies, this recipe is super easy and amazingly delicious.
More Unique Board Ideas for Thanksgiving
Have a unique holiday celebration with some of these out-of-the-box boards.
Sangria Charcuterie Board
Have your holiday drinks in style with this creative and gorgeous sangria charcuterie board. Each party member can serve up their very own sangria with a variety of fresh fruits, herbs, and other unique additions.
Charcuterie Skewers
These charcuterie skewers are the perfect on-the-go alternative to your classic grazing boards. Guests can grab a charcuterie skewer without the hassle of serving themselves each ingredient. They are also beautiful and elegant!
Pancake Charcuterie Board
Start the day off right with this beautiful pancake charcuterie board. Thanksgiving can be chaotic with lots of family, lots of cooking, and food everywhere. This simple pancake board is perfect for setting out early and allowing folks to graze throughout the morning.
Fall Brunch Board with Pumpkin Shaped Waffles
For a fall-themed breakfast, make these adorable pumpkin waffles for a Thanksgiving brunch board. Loaded with delicious toppings, your guests will love creating their own breakfast masterpieces before the big event.