This set of free Thanksgiving gratitude printables are a great way to get kids to express gratitude and are a fun alternative to thanksgiving coloring pages.

Thanksgiving is a great time of year to focus on cultivating an attitude of gratitude in kids of all ages but also in ourselves. A few years back, I started writing down 5 things I’m grateful for on a daily basis in a gratitude journal of sorts and it helps me focus on all the good in life, it’s really changed my mindset over time. I often invite my kids to write a little list of things they’re grateful for, but writing a regular ol’ list isn’t as much fun for younger kids.

This set of gratitude activity sheets are a great reminder for older children to take note of what they are thankful for in their life. There’s four designs that you can choose from- a simple hand printed ‘I am grateful for…’, a hand written ‘my thanksgiving list’, a hand lettered ‘gratitude’ and a hand lettered ‘I’m so grateful’ option.

An aside… this year one of my grade 5s started learning cursive at school and I’m so grateful for that (ha!). I know that it’s no longer curriculum, so it’s such a pleasant surprise for me as someone who loves hand lettering so much! I know that many kids can’t read cursive so I wanted to make sure that there’s a printed option as well so there’s one for the entire family.

When our kids were really small, I used to take the kids out for a thanksgiving walk and we’d send thankful cards as a creative way to practice gratitude for younger children. At our family thanksgiving dinner, my sister-in-law used to make a thankful tree for the kids to add what they’re grateful for. 

This is another great option to help kids practice a heart of gratitude whether at home on Thanksgiving Day at the dinner table or for classroom use if you’re a teacher. Pair this with a cute thanksgiving craft and it would make such a great thanksgiving gift for parents! As a parent… who would love to get that 😉

This thankful activity printable is part of a collaboration that I’m doing with some of my favourite printable designer friends, so you can scroll to the bottom and find even more fun free thanksgiving printables from some very talented ladies! 

But first… let’s get you these ‘thankful for…’ printable thanksgiving activity sheets.

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Today I’m sharing a fun set of free rainbow coloring pages with you! I illustrated these a few years back for my twins’ seventh birthday party. That was the last year they agreed to have a joint birthday party and being boy/girl twins, honestly I’m impressed they lasted that long 😉

The theme they agreed on that year was ‘rainbow’ and it was an easy going outdoor party with treats and lots of trampoline time with their friends. Their ideas are much more involved now! You can see a sneak peek of this party right here, or in my blog post on my sister-blog all about affordable kids party ideas. 

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If you’re looking for a fun winter themed bingo game to play during these long cold days- this is for you! Today I’m sharing a winter bingo free printable set for you to download and play with your class, your kids, or… well, whoever you’re spending these winter days with! 

This This bingo set has 10 different bingo cards so if you’re playing with small groups, everyone can have their own bingo card but if you’re playing with more than 10, you’ll just need to re-use cards. 

My kids are such a fan of bingo. Whether we’re playing with cousins, grandparents or just by ourselves, they’re always down to play new bingo games. I really love that bingo is a game that even really small kids understand how to play so if you have a group of kids that range in ages- this is the perfect activity to get everyone involved!

Today I’m excited to share a winter themed set of free printable bingo cards with you… and I can’t wait to play with my kiddos this weekend! We’ll be cozying up with some hot chocolate and probably using mini marshmallows as our dot markers.

My only regret is that I didn’t have these winter bingo mats ready before the holidays when we were short on snow days, this would have been a great way to keep them busy indoors over winter break… and it’s a perfect game for quality time no matter the age of kids. 

The kids worked with me to brainstorm winter theme items like a snow shovel, hockey stick, pair of mittens, cup of hot cocoa, snowflakes and other winter time fun pictures for me to draw for these bingo boards. 

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Today I’m sharing a free printable holiday themed look and find activity sheet. This is a one page activity sheet with doodles I drew and arranged for kids to find multiples of the same graphic.

The black and white outlines make them perfect to color like a coloring page but with the added bonus of counting and matching shapes. These are a fun way to get even younger kids involved in a printable activity instead of the typical word searches.

As our kids have been growing, when we invite families over for gatherings… the parties are getting large. It’s not just adult friends with a couple of babies, it’s hoards of kids.

I’ve started making printable activity pages like this holiday look and find free printable and coloring pages to keep on the kids craft table in the basement to give kids an activity if they’re feeling shy or needing a quiet moment or for younger children to just color. These are awesome for our busy home full of kids, but this is also a great activity for independent work time for teachers classroom use. 

I made these holiday christmas fun doodles a few years ago for holiday coloring placemats. Lately? I’ve been using them for everything.

I mean… these holiday border papers, this printable advent activity list… I have some Christmas coloring sheet options coming up! I’m currently working on a christmas bingo game and a free printable christmas word search as well! If you have other requests for these little doodles… let me know! I’m really loving creating new printables with these cute christmas graphic arts.

But today is alll about that look and find activity. My kids love these free printable hidden pictures activity pages. And since there’s not a lot of words on here, they’re straightforward even for younger children to use and coloring the small details are so good for their fine motor skills.

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Every family that celebrates Christmas counts down to Christmas day in some way… and really, there are so many ways to choose from! You might like a simple chocolate advent calendar, a printable countdown to Christmas, a mischievous elf on the shelf (no thank you, for this mama!), or if you’re like me… you might crave those mini magic moments and christmas activities that you remember growing up as you look forward to Christmas day. 

One of my favourite holiday traditions we started with our kids is doing an activity advent calendar each year instead of a traditional advent calendar full of chocolate, treats or small toys.

Much like a holiday bucket list, it’s a great way to make sure that the magical time of the year doesn’t slip away through your busy hands, reminding you to make time for quality time and fun Christmas traditions this month of December leading up to Christmas morning.

Every year it looks a little different as we prepare it for kids of different ages, but the idea is that on each card, envelope, or with a note inside a box every day, fun activities are written. But if you’ve ever attempted to pull this off… you might have found yourself flipping through all the cards to change what the 13th said because now there’s a school concert and no time to go visit grandma and also there’s no snow today but the calendar said build a snowman!!?

So my biggest tip for enjoying an activity advent calendar is to leave most of the days blank and fill them in the night before or even the week before once you know what your capacity (and weather!) are looking like.

This makes the Christmas activity advent calendar completely customizable to your family and your life season. You can only choose advent activities that you are sure you have the time/energy/stuff to make happen. 

For example… one year Aubrey broke her collarbone. So we had virtually NO outdoor activities. 

Others… we had babies right around the holidays so we needed a pretty low-key Christmas (holiday story, anyone?!).

And if there’s no snow, then don’t write down ‘sledding’ and save it for the day you get a big dump. 

Kind of awesome to have that flexibility, right?

BUT coming up with ideas in the moment… at 10pm because you forgot… can be a challenge.

So I created a printable list of 133 simple activity ideas so that you never stand there staring at your kids’ advent activity calendar questioning why you started one in the first place. Even though it really is your favourite tradition. Not that I’ve been there 😉

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If you love watching The Bachelor or The Bachelorette… you’ll love watching it with bingo cards *that* much more, promise 😉  It’s one of my favourite parts of watching the Bachelorette with friends (other than the snacks and commentary!) and I love how many of you I get to see playing along over Instagram too!

Over the past few years I’ve been sharing free printable sets of Bachelor (or bachelorette!) bingo cards for you to print and enjoy as you’re watching our favourite trash TV over on my other blog (lemonthistle.com). Now that I’m keeping all printables here… I thought I’d move these over as well! But moving over SEVERAL seasons of bachelor and bachelorette bingos had me thinking… there has to be a better way! Ha!

So meet the Build your own Bachelor Bingo packet… build your own bingo cards for The Bachelor and The Bachelorette viewing parties with all my favourite square ideas. You can download it once and create a bingo for each and every episode for yourself and your friends.

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