Pottery Barn Inspired Thankful Tree
Make this simple Pottery Barn inspired thankful tree to help count your blessings this Thanksgiving!
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.
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
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.
Have you ever made a thankful tree or something similar?
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This is such a good way to teach children the importance of living with a grateful heart. It really does change our perspective. Thanks for sharing! Pinned!
Thank you, Cindy!
This is so cute. We do this with our Christmas tree every year. We get it out the first of November and decorate it with all colors and ornaments and all the things we are thankful for. Then after thanksgiving we only have to switch out ornaments to e ready for Christmas! Visiting you from the hello monday link up.
That’s a wonderful idea! Thanks so much for sharing!