Pottery Barn Inspired Thankful Tree

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Make this simple Pottery Barn inspired thankful tree to help count your blessings this Thanksgiving!

Counting blessings with this pottery barn inspired thankful tree

Learning to have a thankful heart for everyday blessings (as well as the more miraculous ones) can make a huge difference in our outlook on life.

I think it’s very profitable to focus on thankfulness as a family, and the month of November seems like a natural time to do that.

One tool we’re using to nurture a spirit of gratitude in our home is the thankful tree. It’s such a fun and simple project to make. The tree we made this year cost us nothing. We already had everything right here in our home and yard!

To begin, I took a walk in the woods behind our house to gather some twigs.

supplies used to make a Pottery Barn thankful tree

Pottery Barn Inspired Thankful Tree

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Branches
A jar or other container to hold the branches (depending on the jar you may need rocks or other material to hold the branches up)
Cardstock
Hole punch
Scissors
Leaf template
Twine
Chalk ink marker

leaves cut out of cardstock that have thanks on them

How to Make It:

First, put the branches in your jar or other container. You may need to trim some of the lower branches.

Next, use fall-colored cardstock and trace around the leaf templates. After cutting the leaves out, we wrote things we were thankful for on each leaf.

Then we simply punched a hole at the top or side of each leaf and tied them to the tree branches.

I didn’t get a picture of one yet this year, but we always have a leaf or two dedicated to “candy,” “ice cream,” and other things like that. 🙂

Our pottery barn inspired thankful tree sits on a dresser right by the dining room table.

The dining room is a great place for a thankful tree since we congregate there together regularly. It’s a natural time to talk about all of our blessings and each thing and each person we’re thankful for.