Gratitude Activity

On Thursday evening, 19 November, SNAP friends had a gratitude activity in preparation for Thanksgiving. We colored pages and finger puppets appropriate to the holiday and wrote what we are grateful for on leaves with which we decorated a gratitude tree. We played a game where, when the ball was rolled or thrown to us, we said what we were grateful for, what we liked to eat most on Thanksgiving, and what we thought we might get for Christmas. And a game called Go Turkey Go (a Thanksgiving version of Red Light Green Light) was very entertaining.

 Getting started -- the gratitude tree had no leaves

 Those scissors are pretty and we are ready to color

 Choose something to color

 Sister Burns and Sister Santiago are interested

 Happy Thanksgiving

 Excitement is contagious

 Snip, snip, snip

 Brother Welsh is interested, too

 Brother Taylor, take my picture

 This table is ready for us to make gratitude leaves

 Sometimes Brother Welsh likes to joke

 Write something on the leaves so we can hang them on the tree

 Yeah, like that

 Lots to be grateful for

 Some things we are grateful for are delicious...

 Like egg rolls

 I'm done with my leaves and I'm just going to finish coloring my page

 Hanging the leaves...

 Made the tree look good

 One more leaf

 Now tell us what you are grateful for

 When you are through, throw it to someone else

 Get ready, I'm gonna throw it

 Good throw -- good catch

 My turn

 Go Turkey Go

 I saw you moving -- back to the line

 Watch out for sneaky SNAPers

 I'll just take the plate and run

 Making a big move

 Stop!

 The famous Spode dinnerware company from England made our paper turkey plate

Sister Leishman wrapped up our evening

We all had a great time and are glad so many of our friends came to enjoy it. Thanks to everyone who made it happen.