Giving Thanks: Gratitude Pumpkins

We're well into our month of Thanksgiving and have been enjoying the thanksgiving devotionals I shared in a previous post. It's not too late if you are interested in using any of the lessons I've outlined.  This week we've been focusing on gratitude for home.  My boys put together new charts outlining their daily tasks and have been trying to do their part to make our home a "house of order."  I thought I would also share the gratitude pumpkins we made last week. They're quite simple but lovely.

We used 8 1 inch strips of card stock with holes punched on both ends (I couldn't find my hole punch so I poked holes with a screwdriver and it actually held the paper in place better than a large punched hole would have), 2 leaves of various colors (we had some glittery copper leaves as well, very pretty), and a pipe cleaner folded in half and twisted.  The boys wrote or traced things they were thankful for and then threaded the pipe cleaner through the holes.  I helped to flatten the end on the bottom when they were done. I placed all of the materials in a basket on our shelves and we ended up with enough pumpkins to send some home with Grammy.