Thanksgiving

Random Acts of Kindness Bingo: A powerful Thanksgiving tradition (free printable)

Make the holidays meaningful for your family with this free printable random acts of kindness Bingo game! It’s a simple way to get everyone involved in giving thanks and spreading love…any time of year!

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in November of 2016 and has been completely revamped and updated with new printables for you!

It’s November! Despite the fact that the days are growing shorter and colder, November is one of my favorite months of the year. It’s my birthday month (wahoo!), and I’m a serious fan of Thanksgiving.

Poor Thanksgiving. Smushed between the much flashier holidays of Halloween and Christmas, Thanksgiving often gets overlooked. But, really, Thanksgiving has so much going for it.

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Thankful from A to Z: A simple Thanksgiving alphabet activity to encourage gratitude

Get your kids thinking about the many things they have to be grateful for with this simple printable Thanksgiving alphabet activity!

As we head into the holiday season, it’s the perfect time to teach our kids the importance of gratitude. If your kids are like mine, they have OODLES of blessings to count. They’re really good at naming the obvious ones: family, friends, teachers…and those are good! But it can also be helpful to push kids beyond their first ideas and challenge them to think outside the box when considering the things they’re thankful for.

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A simple way to “Give Thanks” this year (+ Free Printable Thanksgiving Gift Tags to help!)

This year, help your kids turn their gratitude into action by giving thanks (literally) to the people your family is thankful for with these printable Thanksgiving gift tags!

There are many messages in the world that teach our kids to chase after more, more, more and focus on “What’s in it for me?”

I want to counter this message with my own: that we are already living in abundance and that when we look for ways to give to others, the world as whole becomes a little better and brighter.

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How to make perfectly creamy mashed potatoes

For Thanksgiving dinner or any other time of year, these eight tips from a mashed potato pro will ensure you get perfectly creamy mashed potatoes every time. One of my favorite Christmas movies is While You Were Sleeping. Do you remember the scene where they are all gathered around the dinner table having a completely absurd conversation about tall actors dotted by random comments about the mashed potatoes?

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Apple Sausage Stuffing: the perfect Thanksgiving side dish

This light and fluffy apple sausage stuffing is the perfect side dish for Thanksgiving dinner. It’s so good, you’ll want to make it more than once a year. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Food, family, and giving thanks for the many blessings I’ve been given. Simple. Non-commercialized. Delicious. You can’t get better than that….

Gratitude Tree: A Thanksgiving Tradition

Got gratitude? This simple Thanksgiving tradition is a great way to bring your family together and get everyone thinking about what they’re grateful for this holiday season.

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I love Thanksgiving. It’s one of my favorite holidays, actually. I mean, can it get much better than eating really good food and spending time with the people you love? Oh, and you don’t have to buy presents or any of the other commercial hoopla that often creeps into many of the other more popular holidays. Now, that’s a holiday.

I also love that Thanksgiving reminds us all to be grateful for the blessings we have in life. Did you know that grateful people have been scientifically shown …

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