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super simple 🍂 Thankful Tree 🍂 for kids
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Reader -With Thanksgiving coming up in a couple of weeks, I'd like to share with you a quick and easy way to begin the thoughts of thankfulness in your home. It is SUPER hard to express this to really little kids. So it's easier to lead by example and hopefully they'll follow suit. They will catch on eventually. This super simple Thankful Tree is an easy craft to make every year that starts those gratitude thoughts. You start with a bare tree. Just a trunk and branches. You can cut this out of a brown paper bag if you have one, or use brown paper. Then each day of November, or leading up to Thanksgiving, each person in the family cuts out a leaf, writes what they're thankful for on the leaf and adds it to the tree. Simple enough, huh? And by Thanksgiving, you have a beautiful Thankful Tree! Another similar concept is a Thankful Chain. Something to remember -- Young kids are going to be thankful for physical objects, such as their toys, and it's going to seem very shallow -- but let them be thankful for that! It's a start and will get better as you model to them other things they can be thankful for that might not be physical objects. If you child doesn't understand what being thankful is, ask this way: "What makes you happy?" You can get the full details of the Thankful Tree here:
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Hands On As We Grow has activities, crafts and art projects for kids up to school age, and even into their beginning years of school. You’ll find fun things to do with them, crafty ideas, and easy ways to make learning fun.
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