November's Thankful Tree

Every November we do a Thankful tree, adding a leaf each day with something we are thankful for.  And every November, I'm scrambling to cut out leaves and usually getting annoyed with the process.

I thought ahead this year, and in October, we gathered up some pages with leaves printed on them and pulled out the paints.  The kids had a wonderful time painting them!

It was more work than usual, but after getting them laminated at a local teacher store, I'm hoping we can reuse them (as long as I don't forget where I put them!)

We had a few too many, so before laminating them, we sent some to a friend who had mentioned all the pretty leaves in her yard had already fallen off the trees.

Rather than starting at the beginning of the month, we waited until 2 weeks before Thanksgiving; that way each child could have a leaf every day.

It's a little hard to see, but here's our tree!

I think my favorite this year was Quintin's thankfulness for "new teeth!"