THANKSGIVING: 3 PRACTICAL KIDS’ ACTIVITIES ON GRATITUDE
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Subject Line: Thanksgiving is on its way! Here are 3 Activities to Teach Your Kids Gratitude
Dear (Insert Parent Name Here),
Thanksgiving is soon approaching, and this U.S. holiday is an incredible season for parents to be able to pass down their faith. In 1 Thessalonians 5:18, it says, “Be thankful in all circumstances for this is God’s will for you, for those who belong to Christ Jesus.” So we have a short video with 3 easy, practical activities you can do with your children to teach gratitude.
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As always, I am here to support you as parents. If you need anything, please do not hesitate to reach out.
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Subject Line: Gratitude Activities for On-The-Go, At-The-Table, and OutdoorsÂ
Dear (Insert Parent Name Here),
This holiday season, find a few minutes to walk outside with your kids and practice the Outdoor Gratitude Activity from this video. In one quick walk with your child, you can teach them how to practice gratitude, which is a part of our faith that we pass down to our children (I Thessalonians 5:18).
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The U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving is soon approaching. It’s full of fall leaves, turkeys, and lots and lots of pumpkin. This is an incredible season for parents to be able to pass down their faith because in 1 Thessalonians 5:18, it says, “Be thankful in all circumstances for this is God’s will for you, for those who belong to Christ Jesus.”
So what an incredible opportunity to be able to pair Thanksgiving with a chance to pass down your faith. So here are three ways that you can involve your kids and activities to teach gratitude.
One is activity on-the-go, which is an activity that you can do at the table. Two is an activity you can do at the table, and three is an activity you can do outside.
First is the one that you can do on-the-go. This is a twist of “would you rather” so you could ask, would you prefer this or that? While you’re driving in your car and you have your kids, you could say, hey, do you prefer math or science? Do you prefer P.E. or lunch? Do you prefer Minecraft or fortnight? You can think about the shows that they like or the movies, the apps that they play. And you can begin to pair them up and think, do you like this or that? And as you’re driving- what you’re doing or the purpose of this is that you’re teaching them how to discover what they really like. And then once you teach them what they really like, then they can practice gratitude. For example, are you grateful you get to get to play the game of Minecraft? What do you enjoy about it? And you begin to teach them how to be grateful.
Second, the activity that you can do at the table for Thanksgiving is to pick up some brown paper, maybe at a moving store, at your local moving store and wrap your table with that brown paper, then throw out some markers and begin to ask your kids to name something they’re grateful for. You can also begin to do something more specific like grab a can of beans, take a Sharpie, draw circles all around it on the paper, and then write mom or dad or the name of their sibling or church or school, and then ask them in that circle to write one specific thing they’re grateful for, about their mom or about their sibling or about their church. Last, they can color all over the paper.
The third activity is something you can do outside. Have them go walk around and pick up some leaves, whether it be red, yellow, orange. Just pick up some sticks, collect just a few items.
If you live in an area where you don’t have fall leaves, run to the dollar store and pick up a few leaves, different colors, and then spread them out around for your kids. Ask them to pick up the ones that are red.
The red leaf represents a person. Is there one person in their life that they’re grateful for? The yellow can represent an event. Is there something that happened this year in their first-grade class that they’re really grateful for? And orange can be a place, green can be themselves, and brown can be any kind of item they’re grateful for. Maybe it’s their love or their stuffed dog.
So it teaches your kids practical ways to be grateful because this is an incredible season, an incredible time to practically involve your kids in gratitude for 1 Thessalonians 5:18 says, “Be thankful in all circumstances for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.” And Thanksgiving is an incredible time where you can pass down your faith to your children by teaching gratitude.