November Family Craft: Thanksgiving Tree

In this season of abundance, remind yourself of the blessings in your life with a Thanksgiving tree. It's really a nice tradition, not difficult at all, and thought provoking to boot. *smile*

Supplies
* Paper grocery bags
* Colored construction paper (for leaves)
* Tape or Glue stick
* Family members
* Black Marker
* Basket (optional)

Instructions

* Trace everyone's arms and hands out on brown paper (grocery bags are great)

* Trace a child's legs and torso for the "trunk" on brown paper.

* Cut several different types of leaf shapes out of multi-colored construction paper.

* Glue stick (walls wipe down pretty easily with water) or tape the tree (arms with hands are limbs) to the wall

* Put the leaves and marker in the basket, and place the basket on the floor under the tree.

* As family members or guests think of things they are thankful for throughout the month, they go to the tree and write/draw their thanks on a leaf, gluing it to the tree.

By Thanksgiving, you have a beautiful autmn tree, and by the end of the month your home is bursting at the seams with appreciation.

We like to take a picture of our tree each year before we take it down so that we can remember all of the things we were thankful for in previous years. Adding the photos to a holiday scrapbook is another great fun way to keep the memories forever.

Comments: 2

Connie C. Nov 14, 2006, 3:54pm EST

Sounds great. Thanks for sharing. Could you please publish this to homemade gifts?

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Jennifer N. Jan 5, 2007, 3:30pm EST

This is wonderful. I'm going to have to try this with Gideon next year. Though, I'm not sure he'd understand the thankful part of it just yet.

Thanks for posting this to Kreative Kids. :)

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