Monday, November 15, 2010

Our Thankful Tree


Our Thankful Tree

I saw this idea on another blog this week. The author of the blog is a mother of five and it is a tradition in their home to have a "Thankful Tree" each year in November. Every morning at breakfast the family writes something that they are thankful for on a paper leaf and they add it to the tree. Their thankful tree is on a poster that hangs on their fridge door.

I tweaked the idea to make it an activity to do with my grandchildren and their families. I created a six foot tree using brown construction paper on my entry way wall. I made up a packet of fall colored papers and some leaf patterns to give to each family. I have invited them each to cut out leaves and write down some things that they are thankful for as a family and then come over and add them to "Our Thankful Tree".

Three of my grands came in this morning while waiting for the bus and checked out the tree. They read the first ten leaves I have added to the tree. They were excited to see their names on the tree as three of my ten grands being something that I am very thankful for!

I'm looking forward to seeing the branches filled with fall colored leaves and words of gratitude on Thanksgiving Day!

4 comments:

  1. Hi Shelley, what a wonderful blog! I love all these great ideas! I was just coming to say that of course you can share the thankful tree idea and I'm glad you have. I love doing it in our family and I love seeing the idea to make it bigger...I may have to try that next year! Anyway, thanks for saying hi and Happy Happy Thanksgiving!

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  2. Thanks Shawni. If you had gotten back to me any sooner I may have just used the picture of your Thankful Tree and missed out on creating my very own. It has already generated a lot of excitement among my grands so I am very THANKFUL that I happened upon your blog and this tradition.

    I added a link to your blog in my post. Thanks for stopping by and Happy Thanksgiving to you too!

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  3. I love your "Thankful Tree" and it probably won't take long to get lots of leaves.

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