Learning how to practice gratitude is a natural during Thanksgiving.
Whether you’re looking for free thanksgiving printables for kids, practicing your gratitude writing, or considering November gratitude challenge ideas, practicing being grateful is always a good idea.
(Outside of the holiday, using a gratitude journal can really fine-tune your blessings awareness.)
Our family has always made counting our blessings a priority, especially at Thanksgiving. That’s why it’s one of my favorite holidays.
To help encouraging a tradition of thankfulness, I designed a printable gratitude list worksheet complete with a cute watercolor pumpkin.
You can download it here.
Make “how to practice gratitude in life” easy
Everyone at our Thanksgiving table will share what they’re grateful for as we gather together. We often pray our thanksgivings; it’s just what we do.
Using this pumpkin printable makes it easy to reflect on the gratitude message that I want to instill all year long.
The gratitude log can create a thankful awareness of the blessings we have.
This is a great way to install awareness of gratitude in the family, small group or classroom. This gratitude notes template can be used as a fun Thankful Thursday Gratitude Prompt exercise.
Feel free to make as many copies of these Thanksgiving printables as you need.
Thankful for good food
Thanksgiving dinner is traditionally a feast in many homes; it certainly is in ours.
I put my watercolor pumpkin clipart to work and created a Thanksgiving menu planner that’s downloadable and printable.
In addition do you like to decorate for your Thanksgiving holiday? If you do and want to keep it simple, take a look at my Best Thanksgiving Ever post. You might enjoy it.
Practicing gratitude brings joy
Amazing how that works, isn’t it? The more we are thankful, the more our spirits are lifted. I love that! It’s one of the reasons I do art. So much joy in creating beauty.
So many people have great things to say about the power of gratitude. I found this helpful article on being thankful and I wanted to share it with you. Gratitude has truly pulled me out of the down times more than once. It’s a fantastic tool but I found I must practice it consistently (like anything I want to be good at) to receive the full benefits.
(Do you find Bible verses + wall art an easy way to keep your gratitude meter high? It really works to surround yourself with positive messages.)
With Christmas right around the corner, I’m all for keeping the joy going. Take a look at my Christmas Joy printables here and let it inspire you to use easy and inexpensive printables to create your own special spaces.
