Give Thanks

I love the crafts I can do with my kids that have meaning. And with Thanksgiving coming, I wanted to have a craft that reminded them of everything we have to be thankful for. The Lord has been so good to our family and I like to remind the girls of that, whenever possible. They do enough turkey crafts at school, so this craft has a more special purpose. So, I wanted to make a giving thanks tree, of some sort, for our dining room table. Our table is the main hub of our home and the girls spend a lot of time there coloring, reading, and of course, eating!

First, I already had a few fake leaf stems but I wanted to add more leaves. I had the girls color some leaves I had traced out already. 

As you can see from the pics, my vision of these leaves were to have them colored, I don't know maybe a nice yellow or perhaps a green color. Nope. My girls wanted a zig zag leaf, a pink leaf, and even a USA leaf. Emma is definitely proud to be an American! Anyway, I then had them write what they are thankful for and I was so blessed to hear what they had to say. They were thankful for Jesus, mom and dad,  our home and even great grandma's and great grandpa Bill. They sure know how to pull on my heart strings! And I am very happy to display this on our table!

P.S.- We are in week six of a kitchen remodel. Please excuse the messy background in all my pics. I hope to post about the remodel soon! This was a huge transformation!