40 Thanksgiving Gratitude Crafts and Activities

Thanksgiving is a beautiful time of year to practice gratitude, so here’s a list of Thanksgiving gratitude activities and thankful crafts that provide an easy way to teach children about gratitude.

This collection of Thanksgiving gratitude activities and crafts for kids makes cultivating gratitude in the home, classroom, or workplace fun. While you can do some Thanksgiving gratitude crafts and activities on this list of ideas year-round, most are specific thankful activities and crafts for Thanksgiving.

If you are looking for gratitude crafts and activities to use throughout the year to teach children about gratitude, look at Gratitude Activities and Crafts for Kids. You may also enjoy this list of Thanksgiving Traditions.

Related: Gratitude Books for Kids That Inspire Thankfulness.

Thanksgiving Gratitude Activities, Games, and Crafts for Kids and Families

Gratitude brings abundance. Use the fun Thanksgiving activities and easy Thanksgiving crafts listed below to cultivate gratitude in the home or classroom this Thanksgiving.

Click on the creator of the thankful activities and grateful crafts on the list if you want to see the DIY details. Gratitude activities are first on this list, followed by gratitude crafts for kids, gratitude games, and more! Scroll down to see all the fun ways to nurture gratitude this Thanksgiving.

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Thankful Activities: Fun Thanksgiving Activities for Kids and Adults

There are a lot of fun Thanksgiving activities for kids and families to do on, around, or for Thanksgiving. Enjoy the fun Thanksgiving activity ideas on the list below in your home or classroom to celebrate the joy that gratitude can bring!

Thanksgiving Gratitude Activities

Here are a few Thanksgiving gratitude activities that can help you raise grateful kids.

1. Thankful Heart Thanksgiving Activity for Kids | Live Craft Eat for Lasso the Moon
2. Thanksgiving Kids’ Table | Meaningful Mama
3. Thankfulness Chain: Thanksgiving Activity | The Joys of Boys
4. Things I am Thankful for Story Window | Buggy and Buddy
5. Thanksgiving Yoga | Kid’s Yoga Stories

Printable Thanksgiving Gratitude Activities

Give any of these fantastic printable Thanksgiving gratitude activities at home or in the classroom to increase feelings of thankfulness.

1. “I Am Thankful For” Printable Thanksgiving Placemats To Color | Rhythms of Play
2. Thankful Turkey Printable Thanksgiving Gratitude Activity | Rhythms of Play
3. Printable Gratitude Journal Prompts | Rhythms of Play
4. Thankful Tree Printable | Rhythms of Play
5. Gratitude Activity for Kids: Thanksgiving Cootie Catcher | Bren Did
6. Count Your Blessings Tree (Printable) | Somewhat Simple
7. Gratitude Photo Scavenger Hunt | Let’s Get Together
8. Thanksgiving Coloring Pages Printable | Nurturestore
9. Be Thankful: Book Inspired Family Thanksgiving Activity with Free Printable | Sunny Day Family
10. Free Printable Gratitude Garland |Somewhat Simple
11. Printable Family Gratitude Devotions for November | Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls
12. I Am Grateful – Gratitude Printable Template | Rhythms of Play

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Grateful Games: Thanksgiving Games for Kids and Families

Teach children about gratitude and thankfulness while playing any of these fun Thanksgiving gratitude games for kids!

1. Gratitude Pick up Sticks Game | Teach Beside Me
2. How to Teach Children Gratitude: Gratitude Game | Play Party Plan
3. I am Thankful Skittles Gratitude Game | Planning Playtime

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Thankful Crafts: Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids and Families

This fun collection of thankful crafts for kids doubles as gratitude activities that can help children develop grateful hearts and will help cultivate gratitude at home or in the classroom.

You can also turn a few of these Thanksgiving crafts into a Thanksgiving gratitude countdown for the home or classroom; Starting on November first, or whenever suits your fancy, write something you are grateful for each day until Thanksgiving day.

Or, make any of these thankful craft ideas as a family on Thanksgiving weekend and decorate them with words of gratitude that remind you of everything you have to be grateful for.

Click on the creator of each Thanksgiving gratitude craft for all the DIY details!

Thankful Tree Crafts for Thanksgiving

Learn how to make a thankful Thanksgiving tree with these easy tutorials!

1. Thanksgiving Thankful Tree Ideas | Rhythms of Play
2. How to Make a Thankful Tree with Real Leaves | Rhythms of Play
3. Printable Thankful Tree with Gratitude Leaves | Rhythms of Play
4. Thankful Tree with Clay Gratitude Leaves | Rhythms of Play (pictured below)

Thanksgiving Gratitude Garland Crafts

Thankful garlands make fabulous autumn home decor and excellent Thanksgiving decorations for the home or classroom.

1. Gratitude Garland | Mosswood Connections
2. Acorn Gratitude Banner | Creative Family Fun
3. Giving Thanks Thankful Banner | Carina Gardner

Thanksgiving Gratitude Wreath Crafts

Thankful wreaths are fun gratitude crafts for all ages. Try either of these Thanksgiving gratitude wreaths tutorials:

1. Thanksgiving Clothespin Wreath | Chica and Jo
2. Wreath of Plenty Craft | Parents
3. Or, make gratitude leaves and fashion them into a wreath.

Thankful Turkey Crafts

Make a thankful turkey with the kids for Thanksgiving, or try these cute turkey leaf crafts, to help everyone feel a little more grateful during the long dark days of the fall.

1. Thankful Turkey Thanksgiving Placemats To Color | Rhythms of Play
2. Cute Thankful Turkey Printable Coloring Page | Rhythms of Play
3. Gratitude Turkey Placemats | Mama’s Happy Hive
4. Thankful Handprint Turkey Craft and Gratitude Journal Project | Arts and Crackers
5. What a Turkey | Parents
6. Thankful Turkey Craft Kit
7. Gratitude Turkey | Little Family Fun
8. Thankful Turkey Book | B-Inspired Mama
9. I am Thankful Thanksgiving Craftivity | Playdough to Plato
10. Easy Thankful Turkeys Craft | Teaching 2 and 3-Year-Olds
11. Thankful Turkey Handprint Keepsake | School Time Snippets

More Fun Thanksgiving Gratitude Crafts

Make any of these Thanksgiving gratitude crafts to create an attitude of gratitude in your home or classroom!

1. Gratitude Moble | Rhythms of Play
2. Give Thanks, Gratitude Board | Jellybean Junkyard
3. Gratitude Boxes | Meri Cherry
4. Be Thankful: A Thanksgiving Craft for Kids | Kitchen Counter Chronicles
5. Gratitude Pumpkins | The Joys of Boys
6. Thanksgiving Thankful Crafts Kit
7. How to Make Marbled Clay Gratitude Leaves | Rhythms of Play (pictured below)

Related: Turkey Leaf Lanterns Thanksgiving Craft

Thankful Food and Kindness Cookies

We have found a few fun ways to practice gratitude and kindness with food, too! For example, make thankful dinner rolls, or pass out kindness cookies to your guests or neighbors this Thanksgiving.

1. Delicious Thankful Dinner Rolls | How Does She
2. Easy Cake Mix Kindness Cookies – Use Thanksgiving cookie cutters and decorate kindness cookies with words of gratitude or inspiration!

Related: Pumpkin Cranberry Bread 

Children’s Thanksgiving Books That Inspire Thankfulness

Thanksgiving is a beautiful time of year to remember to be grateful for what we have. Reading gratitude books with your children is a great way to introduce the concept of thankfulness to your children.

Looking for a list of Thanksgiving books to help nurture gratitude in the home or classroom? Have a peek at this fantastic collection of  Thanksgiving gratitude Books for Kids.

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Thanksgiving Activities and Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids and Families

Thanksgiving is a beautiful time of year to remember to be grateful for all of the blessings in life. This collection of gratitude activities and Thanksgiving crafts provides an easy way to teach children about gratitude as the days grow short and the nights long. Many of these gratitude activities for kids can be done any time of year but are the most fun at Thanksgiving.

So, fill your life with gratitude and decorate your home or classroom with thankfulness this holiday season! Just try any of these Thanksgiving gratitude activities and crafts.

Thanksgiving Activities and Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids, such as the roundup of Thanksgiving ideas listed above, make it fun to nurture thankfulness in your home or classroom. Try these fun Thanksgiving gratitude activities and Thanksgiving crafts for kids today!

You might also enjoy this list of Gratitude Activities, and don’t forget to pop over to look at this collection of 20 Thanksgiving traditions and fun things to do on Thanksgiving! 

You might also enjoy our Fall Bucket List–it’s filled with even more fun fall activities!

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