As we enter into this season of thanks, I wanted to create a home environment where my kiddos can express their thanks to God for His blessings. At the beginning of the month, we started our Thanksgiving tree. Now we wanted to share with you our thankful basket. This simple activity not only helps all us to recount our blessings, but is also a language arts lesson. This is how our thankful basket works.

Materials:

Basket or another container
paper
pen or pencil

Instructions:

Set a basket, precut papers and pencil on a table.  Anyone in the family can write and drop their thankful messages into the basket. On Thanksgiving day, we’ll pass around the basket and read some or all of the messages.

Note:

Since Buddy’s learning to write, I encouraged him to write as much as he wanted for himself and help his siblings. He did so eagerly. He’s learning without even knowing it!

The day before Thanksgiving, we passed the basket around after dinner and we read all the messages in the basket. Here’s Buddy reading one of them.

Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving activity that you would like to share. Please drop a note in the comments sections.

Adapted from Shirley Dobson’s books Let’s Make a Memory.