Counting Blessings as a Family

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count! -Neal A. Maxwell

Our first Thanksgiving married, my husband and I decided to take a moment out of our busy lives and write out all of our many blessings. We hoped that if we could see them all together, we could make them count a little more!

So we took some butcher paper, listed them all, one by one, and hung it where we could see it everyday.

{Now, no making fun…We had only been married a couple of months!} 😉

Since we’ve had the chance to spend a lot of time with our cousins, we decided to do it with them this year!

We thought we should start out by teaching the young ones what it means to be grateful with some simple activities.

We found some autumn colored paper, cut some tall feathers and leaves…

Wrote some things they were thankful for on their feathers…

(Can I just quickly say that I love kindergartener’s handwriting! I smile every time!)

…and made Indian headbands to wear for Thanksgiving dinner! Just like those at the very first Thanksgiving!

Next we talked about the Pilgrims and Indians, and why we celebrate Thanksgiving.

We then made place mats for the BIG DAY!

They had fun tracing and labeling each item’s spot.

Last but not least, we got the whole family involved! Inspired by the original/boring butcher paper poster, we created a Thankful Tree poster and covered it with all the blessings that we enjoy!

(bet you can’t tell which ones the husbands added!) 😉

We then hung it up in a place where it can be a reminder for us to not only count our blessings, but make them count!

Hope you make the time to pause and count your blessings! It surely puts life back into perspective!

For we all have much to be grateful for…

Don’t forget to check out all the Thanksgiving ideas we’ve been gathering via Pinterest!