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Can you believe Thanksgiving is less than a week away?
This has been the fastest year yet! By now, we all have already been thinking and planning our thanksgiving day, we’re getting excited (well, at least I am)about the parade, we’ve talked about pilgrims and Indians, the guys are getting ready for the football games, soon to gather together with friends and family and to give thanks!
And we ALL have so much to be thankful for!
For me, beyond all the physical things like purchasing our first home, creating a new school room and other things, what I am most thankful for are experiencing the birth of our new baby, watching my kids continue to grow, celebrated 10 years of marriage and much growing pains along the way that have all pointed us back to a loving, generous God AND being thankful for it all.
What are you thankful for this year?
With thankfulness in mind, I was asked to come up with a craft for my kids‘ co-op for the thanksgiving party. I took a trip to pinterest and began scrolling. One thing was common: thankful trees, which we have actually made before but for 40 kids I wouldn’t be able to make 3D trees, so I looked over some other ideas and thought, I’ll make a printable.
So I went on picmonkey and came up with this.
Then, once my creative juices were flowing, I thought we can use Trader Joe’s bags to make a frame with a handle and embellish with some stickers we had. And since we have a resource room at our school, I used die-cuts to make some leaves. And I got my craft on. I know most people don’t have die-cuts, so here is a printable I found with leave for y’all.
I look forward to making these with the kindergarten through 3rd graders on Monday, just in time for Thanksgiving!
Make your own Thankful Display:
What you need:
- thankful printable (get one w/o the year below)
- brown paper grocery bag
- glue stick
- paints
- *optional for embellishments: pipe cleaners, foam stickers, clothes pins, leaves
What to do:
- Gather supplies
- Print out thankful printable
- Talk about what being thankful means with your kiddos. Discuss the verse Colossians 2:7 and what being rooted in Christ means.
- Have your kids use their fingers to make some beautiful fall leaves with the paint, set aside to dry
- While paint is drying, cut out one side of the brown paper bag, write things you are thankful on the leaves
- Paste paper to brown paper bag, add embellishments
- Display for a reminder of thankfulness
I hope you have a blessed Thanksgiving with your loved ones, I am truly thankful for all of you!
———->Get your thankful printable here or here without the year<———-
How do you teach your children about thankfulness?
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Written by Christy @ Fresh Fix Momma, Contributing Writer
Hello November!
It’s a beautiful time of year! A time of wonderful holidays, great food, family, friends and a time to reflect on everything that has happened over the past year.
This time of year can bring so much joy to people but it can also bring up a lot of stress on people.
Money issues, loss of family member or friends, maybe a hard time at work; there can be a lot that stresses people out and can be very difficult to be thankful in hard times.
Being thankful in hard times is a very difficult thing, but it’s so very important that we do this.
You see, hard times are normally blessings in disguise. It’s very hard to see that at the time, but when you look back on those hard times you will see that those are the moments that have made you stronger, wiser, It has made you the person you are today.
We were not promised an easy pass through life, in fact we were told that we will have struggles and hard times.
“More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” Romans 5:3-5
Yes, life is hard. There are struggles we go through that we do not understand. However, there is always something to be thankful for.
We have it better off than most; for example: you are reading this post right now. This means: you have/have access to a computer and internet. We have clothing, food, shelter, love of our family and friends but more importantly, we have the love of our Lord. If that’s not something to be thankful for then I don’t know what is.
“Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 5:18
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” Prov. 3:5&6
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16
Is it difficult for you to be thankful when everything seems to be going wrong? How can you encourage another who is having a hard time?
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