Free Printable Thankful Tree with Leaves
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Get this fun, engaging, and FREE Printable Thankful Tree with leaves. Kids write things they’re grateful for on the leaves and create a beautiful, colorful tree craft!
🍂 Why We Love It
There’s so much to love about this Thankful Tree activity!
Using the free printables, kids will write words or phrases describing things they’re thankful for on leaves, then cut them out and glue them on a tree.
The finished craft is colorful and festive, and it serves as a beautiful visual reminder of thankfulness!
This is an engaging and meaningful activity that encourages kids to be creative, practice fine motor skills, and self-reflect.
It’s great for kids K-3 and works well with lessons about gratitude and Thanksgiving, and we share some suggestions for tailoring this activity to younger students below!
✂️ Using the Printables
What you get:
- Thankful tree page with space for child’s name.
- Two leaf pages with options for medium and small size leaves.
- Large leaves for classroom display that reads, “We are thankful for…”
Like our Thanksgiving Fluency Turkey printables, you can simply print, grab the crayons, scissors, and glue, and get started!
Printing: Print the leaves on white paper and have kids color the leaves, or print on various fall-inspired colored paper. Plan for at least one page of leaves per student.
🍁 Tips & Info
Use as door or wall decor! We include large leaves for hall or classroom display that say, “We are thankful for.” Hang those above all the finished trees!
Make a Thanksgiving Placemat: Don’t cut out the tree. Instead, have students glue their leaves directly on the tree page. Laminate the page, and you’ve made a beautiful waterproof placemat to use at Thanksgiving dinner!
Extension Idea: Once everyone has completed their trees, ask each kid to take a turn reading their leaves aloud. My students have always really loved this part! It helps them share about their lives, get to know each other better, and promotes a positive classroom environment.
For Younger Students: K-1 students may need help with cutting and writing words. I like to pre-cut the leaves for my youngest students so we can keep things moving along!
👉 You may also like: Our 3 Thanksgiving activity pages. They keep kids entertained during the festivities!
🖨️ Download & Print
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Thankful Tree and Leaves
Class Display Leaves (We are thankful for...)
🍂 More Thanksgiving Freebies: Acrostic Poem Printables, Thanksgiving Activity Placemats.