Guides
Thanksgiving
Scott Lewis
Every November, designers reach for the same shorthand: a turkey, a pumpkin, a pie, maybe a cornucopia if the layout has room. The trick isn't finding those icons, it's finding a set of them that actually holds together once you drop it into a restaurant menu or a client's dinner invite. I pulled together ten sets from our contributor base for 2026, ranging from a 100-icon doodle bundle to a tight 20-icon tabletop pack, so you can match style and scope to the job instead of stitching mismatched clip art at midnight. Whether you're designing a catering menu, a greeting card, or a seasonal-sale banner, there's a set here built for it.
A Doodle Bundle With Feast Extras Tucked In
This is a 100-icon doodle bundle built for celebrations generally, so you'll find a magician hat and makeup mirror sitting next to a meat bone and a slice of pumpkin pie. Treat it as your accent drawer: pull the mashed potato, pumpkin pie, and paper lantern icons for a Thanksgiving layout, and save the rest for whatever party comes next. The loose, hand-drawn line keeps everything friendly rather than formal, which suits social posts more than a printed menu.
100 icons.
Sticker-Style Turkey and Pumpkin Lettering
Seventy-five stickers built around short phrases and mascots, Cool Turkey, Cool Pumpkin, Cozy Days, each paired with its own hand-lettered type. The apron, bean soup, and armchair icons round it out with a cast of cozy, slightly cartoonish characters, cat included. Built for anything that wants a sticker or badge feel: Instagram stories, packaging stickers, a kids' menu insert.
75 icons.
Fireside and Cellar Harvest Icons
Fifty icons that lean into the quieter side of the holiday, a fireplace, a storage barrel, a jam jar, a beer mug, alongside a pilgrim's hat kept simple as a costume piece rather than a caricature. It reads more autumn-evening than turkey-day centerpiece, which makes it a strong pick for restaurant menus or greeting cards that want warmth without leaning too hard on the feast itself.
50 icons.
Harvest Icons That Go Past Turkey Day
Fifty icons covering acorns, an autumn calendar reminder, and a run of desserts, chocolate cookies, a brownie, alongside barbecue skewers that have nothing to do with turkey at all. It's less a strict Thanksgiving set than a general autumn food and harvest set, which is useful if your campaign runs from early November through the holiday and needs icons that don't feel dated the day after.
50 icons.
A Compact Harvest Staples Pack
Thirty icons, no filler: acorns, berries, storage barrels, a calendar, a loaf of bread, a jug of cider. It's a good fit when a layout needs two or three harvest touches rather than a full illustrated scene, a footer icon on an invite, a small graphic beside a menu heading.
30 icons.
Cozy Family Set, Fireplace Edition
Thirty icons from a small matched family we're carrying in three variations, this one distinguished by its fireplace icon alongside the calendar, buckle shoes, acorn, autumn leaves, and apple pie that anchor the whole group. Because the style holds steady across all three versions, you can pick this one for its fireplace and still borrow icons from its siblings without anything looking out of place.
30 icons.
Cozy Family Set, Carving Knife Edition
Same thirty-icon family as its two companion sets, calendar, buckle shoes, acorn, autumn leaves, apple pie, but this version swaps in a carving knife, handy if your menu or invite wants to nod at the turkey without drawing the whole bird. Consistent linework across the family means you can mix and match freely.
30 icons.
Cozy Family Set, Mushroom Edition
The third in this matched thirty-icon family, built on the same calendar, buckle shoes, acorn, autumn leaves, and apple pie core, with a cremini mushroom standing in as its distinguishing icon. Good for menus that want to call out a savory side dish alongside the usual pie and pumpkin cues.
30 icons.
Soup, Blooms, and Table Icons
Thirty icons pitched toward the fuller table: butternut squash soup, a carving knife, a cremini mushroom, and a small bouquet of asters for the centerpiece. It's a solid pick if your menu or program card covers more than dessert, first course through table setting, in one consistent style.
30 icons.
A Small Tabletop and Centerpiece Set
The smallest set in this roundup at twenty icons, built around apple pie, a cornucopia, candles, and a scatter of autumn leaves. Scaled for a dinner invitation or a place card rather than a full menu, it's the set to reach for when you need three or four decorative touches and nothing more.
20 icons.
Frequently asked questions
Are these icons only useful for restaurants and food brands?
No. The table and food icons work well for hospitality, but the acorns, autumn leaves, calendars, and decor pieces in sets like Thanksgiving (24836) and Thanksgiving (29927) suit greeting cards, event invites, and general fall marketing just as easily.
Can I combine icons from more than one of these sets?
You can, but check the style first. The three Thanksgiving Day sets (24746, 24747, 24748) and Happy Thanksgiving (24754) share a visual family, so they mix cleanly with each other; pairing a doodle-style set like 30120 with a flat icon set will read as two different hands unless you're intentionally layering styles.
Do any of these sets lean on outdated or caricatured imagery?
We steered this roundup toward warm, inclusive subjects, roast turkey, pie, cornucopias, autumn leaves, pilgrim hats treated as costume pieces rather than caricature. If you ever spot something that reads wrong, tell us; that feedback shapes what we curate going forward.
Who makes these icons, and do they get paid fairly?
Every set here comes from a vetted contributor on VectorIcons. Direct sales pay the designer 70%, and subscription downloads are covered by a daily revenue pool, so buying a set is a direct vote for the person who drew it.
Is any of this AI-generated?
Not for this roundup. Our contributors draw these by hand or in vector software. We're pro-AI in principle, but only the kind where artists are credited, compensated, and asked first, and that's a future we're still building toward, not something we're shipping today.