Skills learned: Gratitude!
Age: 12m+
Rating (out of 4 stars): 4
As fun as our other Thanksgiving activities have been, I wanted to do at least one activity to bring in the true spirit of Thanksgiving which is gratitude. To do that, I decided to cut out a bunch of leaves from colored paper and write something we have to be grateful for on each one. It took me a long time to trace and cut out each leaf so we only ended up with 12 leaves, but Izzy definitely would have loved to have had more. My idea with the leaves was to make a sort of tree by sticking them all on a sheet of contact paper I had taped to our sliding glass door. Izzy had no problem with that concept and as I handed him each leaf, I told him what was written on each one so he would maybe know a little bit about all the blessings he has to be grateful for. It didn't take too long to get all the leaves up on his 'tree', but he kept revisiting it throughout the night either to reposition the leaves or to just feel the stickiness of the contact paper. Although it was a short activity, I thought it was a very beneficial activity and I hope to be able to do it again next year with him and sister both. (As a side note, this activity brought out the modeling side of Izzy... you can see what I mean below). Cost: Free
Skills learned: Gratitude! Age: 12m+ Rating (out of 4 stars): 4
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AuthorHi! My name is Cassity and I am the mom to a little 2 year old boy named Izzy and a baby girl named Sydney. I am lucky enough to get to be a stay-at-home mom to them and we have fun thinking of new activities to do together in the afternoons. We created this blog as an opportunity to share those activities with you. Archives
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