Free Thanksgiving Backgrounds: 55 Photos of Pumpkins, Autumn Leaves and the Harvest
55 free Thanksgiving backgrounds from the BigFoto library, all real photos rather than AI images: pumpkins piled up at farm stands, striped squashes and ornamental gourds, carpets of red and gold leaves, ripe wheat and corn ready for the harvest, hay bales and apples on the tree. Use them behind the text of an invitation or a dinner menu, on a slide, in a newsletter or as a warm background for a video call with family far away.
How to download: click a photo to see it large, then use Download. The originals are about 1200 × 800 pixels, enough for a printed menu card, a post or a slide. For a video call, Zoom and Teams trim the 3:2 photo to 16:9, so keep the main subject near the middle.
Pumpkins, squashes and gourds
The classic Thanksgiving background: a pile of orange pumpkins, small pumpkins packed close together, striped and green squashes, ornamental gourds and a harvest display in the Okanagan Valley in Canada, where Thanksgiving comes in October.
Autumn leaves
Fallen leaves that fill the whole frame, with room for a name or a menu on top, and single maple, beech and vine leaves in red, orange and gold.
Fields and the harvest
Ripe wheat close up and to the horizon, a dry cornfield in autumn, a field after the harvest, hay bales, a haystack and dried corn cobs hung up on a wall.
Apples, autumn trees and the table
Red apples on the tree and at the market, a bowl of pumpkin soup, and beech and maple woods in their October colours.
More free photos
- Free fall pictures and autumn backgrounds
- Free leaf pictures
- Free fruit and vegetable pictures
- Free grass and field pictures
- Free orange backgrounds
- Free Christmas and winter Zoom backgrounds
Questions about these Thanksgiving backgrounds
Can I use these Thanksgiving backgrounds for free?
Yes, for personal and commercial projects. All we ask is a link back to BigFoto.com; the box at the top of the page has a credit link you can copy.
Are these real photos or AI images?
Real photos from the BigFoto library, taken at farm stands, markets and in the fields in autumn. None of them is AI-generated.
Which ones work best behind text?
The full-frame photos: the pile of pumpkins, the small pumpkins packed together, the carpets of fallen leaves and the ripe wheat close up. They have no horizon or empty sky, so a name, a date or a menu reads well anywhere on top.
Can I use them as a Zoom or Teams background on Thanksgiving?
Yes. Download the photo, then pick it as a virtual background in the video settings of Zoom, Teams or Google Meet. For winter calls, see our Christmas and winter Zoom backgrounds.
