We are making every effort to focus on what matters most in each holiday this year!
Thanksgiving is about being truly thankful, giving thanks with a grateful heart. If you havent read the story of Squanto and the first Thanksgiving in detail, it is worth a google search (I recommend www.joyfulheart.com/thanksgiving/squanto.htm). This is an emotional story, worth knowing and sharing with your children/grandchildren!
To help us remember to be truly thankful this year, we used this idea from a blog I follow called Tatortots and Jello! The kids have really enjoyed this!
Thanksgiving is about being truly thankful, giving thanks with a grateful heart. If you havent read the story of Squanto and the first Thanksgiving in detail, it is worth a google search (I recommend www.joyfulheart.com/thanksgiving/squanto.htm). This is an emotional story, worth knowing and sharing with your children/grandchildren!
To help us remember to be truly thankful this year, we used this idea from a blog I follow called Tatortots and Jello! The kids have really enjoyed this!
The blank printable is available free online. Each child can make it unique.
I laminated the trees after they colored them, but wish I had laminated the leaves, too!
One side of the leaf is numbered, one side has something the child is thankful for!
You just turn one over and let it "fall" off the tree each day until Thanksgiving Day!
So simple, yet so meaningful...really helped make thankfulness concrete for my two kiddos!
We have also been memorizing scripture about thankfulness and learning a song, hopefully to be presented in plastic microphones after our Thanksgiving meal with extended family!
All it takes is a simple effort to really bring the meaning of this holiday home!!!
All it takes is a simple effort to really bring the meaning of this holiday home!!!
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