This FREE Printable Thankful Tree is the perfect activity for Thanksgiving this year. Get your whole family to participate in this fun and easy craft!
Hey, everyone! Erin here from Printable Crush. I love this Printable Thankful Tree because it gets everyone in the house talking about everything they’re grateful for.
My kids are still young, and some of the answers were funny like my son is grateful for elephants. Some were thoughtful like my daughter is grateful for love and art. This also matches perfectly with my cute Thanksgiving Turkey Crowns, so be sure to check those out!
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The best thing about this is that those memories are yours to keep. It’s way better than just saying what you’re grateful for because everything is written down and you can bring it out every year.
To create this Thanksgiving Printable Thankful Tree, you’ll need:
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- FREE Printable (download below)
- White Card Stock
- Scissors
- Sharpie Marker
- Glue Gun or Glue Dots
- 16X20 Frame
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Thanksgiving Printable Thankful Tree Instructions
- First off, you’ll need to get page one of the printable printed off. You can get this printed at any local copy store.
- Print off at least three pages of the leaf printable at home.
- Next, cut out all the leaves and write things your family is grateful for on each leaf. You can do a couple a day until Thanksgiving or all at once.
- Put print in the frame without the glass.
- Attach the leaves to the print with a glue gun if you want it to be permanent, or with Glue Dots if you want to change it every year.
I love that the leaves have a watercolor texture because it creates a lot of movement and a fun effect for this artwork. To me, there is nothing better than art that has a purpose and a story…and that’s just what this is!
If you like this, check out my printable Thanksgiving Word art. That one’s even easier (just print and cut), but I would suggest displaying both this Thanksgiving!
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This is my first time doing a project like this, and I was wondering how you printed the tree at Walmart. I went to the photo print store online and it has to be .jpg. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Hi! We updated the Free Printables page to include the JPG version as well! :)
What size is best for printing the tree?
I printed mine on paper that is 16×20 and it looks great!
Where do I find the leaf printables?
Hi Jill! It’s a page in the printable document, along with the tree! :)
I LOVE this & will be putting this together for sure! Thank you so much for sharing!!! Where did you find your frame? How thick is your frame?
Hobby Lobby, and it’s about 3 inches thick!
I waited for a sale, so I got it for $35. :)
I love this! But I’m having difficulty getting to the printable page. I seem to be in an endless loop of downloading the extension and then getting a page where a password is needed. Any suggestions? Thank you!
You should only need to put the password in once; if you don’t have PDF, you should download the JPEG version. Please let me know if I can help in any additional way! community@iheartnaptime.net
This is beautiful! Thank you. I printed 3 of them so my daughters could each have one. So much to be grateful for! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Hello,
I love the tree but for some reason, I’m unable to print it, it requires a password, let me know how I can print…would love to use it for our Thanksgiving this year…
thank you so much
Hi Susan! You need to be a newsletter subscriber to get the password… we have many places to sign up, but the easiest to navigate is on the bottom of our homepage, in the blue area. Please let me know if you’d like any additional assistance! Thanks!
I printed these and had my 10-year old daughter and her friends do the project after school today. The girls loved it! It started some great conversations between the girls about family, pets, etc, and how lucky they all are. This is a wonderful craft — it is fun and it helped the girls think about all that they have to be thankful for. Thanks for sharing it!
Thank you for this! I am doing these with our church family on Friday. For anyone who is interested in making it smaller. It prints nicely on standard cardstock and then scale the leaves page down to 80%. They then fit the tree and are still easy to write on and read. a $1 store frame makes it an affordable large group project.
Thanks for the tips Jennifer! Great idea for an affordable group craft project! :)
I can’t find the printable page for the leaves….
Hi Anne! This printable is exclusively for those who subscribe to I Heart Naptime! If you would like to subscribe and receive this printable along with dozens of other darling printables, there is a link on the post! :)
Is this still available? All the links show “Page Not Found”
Hi Miranda! This print is available to I Heart Naptime subscribers. If you subscribe, it should send the link to the printable to your email! :)