Laren and I were at Ikea that other day and they had some super fun vases. I found this lovely vase and decided it would be perfect for our thankful tree!
Monday night I spend a good hour in Hobby Lobby ( I could spend so many hours there!) finding exactly what I needed. I came home with craft tree branches, wooden balls, craft paper, and plenty of other fun things.
I definitely wish they would have had more of these at the store, because it would just be nicer and a fuller tree with more! I painted the wooden balls different varieties of brown and black and stuck them in the bottom for a little filler.
( sorry these photos suck )
Anyway, then I cut craft paper into circles for the leaves and Laren and I wrote what we were thankful for on them. I hole punched them and then we stuck them on our "tree"!
it looks really bare, but that's because...
Some of our leaves fell down into the vase.
I need to improve it a little, but I was really excited with how it turned out and am really glad we did it! We made enough leaves to each write something we are thankful for every day until we leave for Thanksgiving Break in CO. It was so fun to sit down with Laren and write down things we are thankful for. We are soo incredibly blessed! I've decided we are going to make this a family tradition AKA: i can't wait until we can do this with our kids and teach them about gratitude and have them be thinking of things they are thankful for so they can add it to our tree :)
Ta- Da!
What are you thankful for this year?
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