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4 Easy, Fun Ways to Help Kids Give Thanks

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Question: Are you the fun parent?

I am not. read more

FREE Gratitude Scripture Art

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gratitude scripture art

Happy (American) almost-Thanksgiving!

It’s great timing. Again. My family needs a day of gratitude. read more

11 Thanksgiving Printables: Kids’ Activities & Scripture Art!

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kids thanksgiving activities

Confession: My heavenly intentions for Thanksgiving are often clobbered by my oh-so-real life.

I would love to be preparing our hearts all month for gratitude, but I find myself picking up someone else’s rank gym socks. I would love to be stuffing a jar with slips of paper declaring our thankfulness, but can tend to stave off a little more teenage complaining instead…?  read more

Thankfulness: 11 Spiritual Life Skills for Kids

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Time for a holiday rerun–with a few extras added in! In light of the release of Permanent Markers: Spiritual Life Skills to Write On Your Kids’ Hearts, here’s a list of ways to encourage your kids toward thankfulness this month. 

1. The running list.

At dinner each night of November, see if your family can collectively think of 10 more things you’re thankful for. Keep a running list.

2. Turkey day decor.

Display a vase filled with your list written on slips of paper. Alternatively, scrawl gratitude items on kraft paper doubling as a Thanksgiving tablecloth—complete with markers or crayons prompting guests to add their own.

I am thankful for... craft paper table cover

3. The classic: Thank you notes.

Set a small, doable goal for yourself to send out a certain number of thank-you notes to people who might be a little clueless as to just how much you appreciate them. You might also consider enclosing a small gift card (think Starbucks, Amazon, iTunes) to add an exclamation point to your gratitude.

Polka-dot thank you notes: Print them here.

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Print this polka-dot thank you note here.

Airmail thank you notes: Print these here.

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13 Kids’ Thanksgiving Activities (with Printables!)

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kids thanksgiving activities

Like so much of 2020, there are parts of Thanksgiving this year that are a bit sad. We’ve canceled our family trip for reasons you can probably guess (thank you, COVID).

But this year continues to fling doors wide open in raising resilient kids. read more

FREE Thanksgiving Scripture Art

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Thanksgiving Scripture art

Happy almost-Thanksgiving!

I feel like this year, my family needs a day of gratitude even more. read more

Holiday Rerun: Happy Thanksgiving! FREE Scripture Art

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Happy Thanksgiving! I love that we still celebrate a day of gratitude. I don’t want to hop over it in my scurry on to Christmas.

I’m hoping for more than a quick, compulsory burst of gratitude tending to last five minutes over some corn muffins. I’m thinking about how to make lifestyle of Thank you, God–over and over, thank you for us as a family. Because naturally over here, we lean toward patting ourselves on the back.

We’re working on covering a window with sticky notes of things we’re grateful for. (You can grab more you-can-totally-do-this gratitude ideas for families in this post. Threw some free printable thank-you notes for kids in there.) read more

Spiritual Life Skills for Kids: Gratitude (PRINTABLE THANK YOU NOTES!)

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1. The running list.

At dinner each night of November, see if your family can collectively think of 10 more things you’re thankful for. Keep a running list.

2. Turkey day decor.

A vase filled with your list written on slips of paper, or written scrawled on kraft paper doubling as a Thanksgiving tablecloth—complete with Sharpies or crayons prompting guests to add their own.

I am thankful for... craft paper table cover

3. The classic: Thank you notes.

Set a small, doable goal for yourself to send out a certain number of thank-you notes to people who might be a little clueless as to just how much you appreciate them. You might also consider enclosing a small gift card (think Starbucks, Amazon, iTunes) to add an exclamation point to your gratitude.

thank you notePrint polka-dot thank you notes here.

airmail thank you notes read more

Happy Thanksgiving! FREE Printable Watercolor Scripture Art

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I love that we still celebrate a day of gratitude–and I never want to skip over it and scurry on to Christmas. I’m grateful for you, readers, as you pursue healthy, real relationships with God and the people around you. Enjoy celebrating with your family–and perhaps these can help. If you like them, feel free to share.

Many thanks to FreePrettyThingsForYou.com for the free watercolor clip art!

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FREE Thanksgiving Printables/Crafts for Kids!

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This year, my family is opting for a paper-plate Thanksgiving: That is to say, we’re going for a little less prep, a little more togetherness. (I hope.) Because I’m eager to make all this about something more than a meal.

When I learned that the pilgrims built seven times more graves than huts, it started to dawn on me that this isn’t always about this surplus always spilling around us. We need this day, no matter how much we have or how harrowing of a year it’s been, to turn our faces upward.

So I’m eager to pass this on to kids, too–to create great memories around the actual acts of giving thanks! read more

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