Blessings & Gratitude Activities & Games Archives

Friend November 2023 “Gratitude Tree” Make a gratitude tree! Write what you’re grateful for on each leaf. Then cut them out and hang them up. To make more leaves, you can trace the shapes. Twist up brown paper bags to make a tree on your wall. Or put small branches in a jar and tie the leaves on.

Friend November 2024 “Friends By Mail: Gratitude Tree” I made a gratitude tree and wrote things I am grateful for on the leaves (Nov. 2023). (Kate G., age 8, Connecticut, USA)

Friend March 2022 “Thankful Tag”

Friend January 2023 “Blessings Scavenger Hunt” Heavenly Father has given us so many blessings. Can you find these things around your home? Write down what you find for each one. What other blessings has Heavenly Father given you?

Friend November 2021 “Gratitude Puzzle” Draw a picture of something you’re grateful for. Try to draw and color in every space. Then cut out your puzzle!

Friend March 2021 “Gratitude Scavenger Hunt” Finding things you are grateful for can help you during hard times. Can you find each of these things somewhere in your home for this scavenger hunt? Draw a picture of each one.

Friend November 2020 “Funstuff: Thankful Words” Find the words in the word search of a few things we can be grateful. Try to think of a few more thankful words.

Friend November 2018 “Food & Fun” Make paper apples out of strips of paper. On each strip, write something you are thankful for. Afterwards, make mini caramel apples as a treat.

Friend November 2017 “Find It” This family is building a gratitude tree all through November. Every day each person writes something they’re thankful for on a paper leaf and tapes it to the tree. Can you find the one thing that’s written on three different leaves.

Friend November 2017 “Family Night Fun” Take turns fishing. When you catch a fish, read the number on the back. Then think of that number of blessings and tell them to your family.