Thankful Coloring Pages and Handwriting Exercise

Here are FREE thankful coloring pages and handwriting exercises for your students, yourself and your family. You can use this freebie at Thanksgiving time or anytime you need to stop, reflect, and give thanks. Teachers and parents often teach children how to be grateful all year long.

Children Learn Gratitude By Example

Children learn by example, so what better way of teaching them the meaning of gratitude by your own actions. Teaching them what gratitude means will help them their whole lives. Before you distribute the thankful coloring pages, begin the lesson on gratitude by starting out with sharing on three things that you are thankful for. Perhaps you are grateful for your class if you are a teacher or your children if you are a parent.

Take a few minutes each day and contemplate what you want to give thanks for. Here are some questions you could ask yourself.

• Why are you grateful to be a teacher or a parent?
• What is it about your students or children that makes you grateful?
• Who in your school or family are you grateful for and why?

Give them specific examples of why you are grateful such as a peaceful classroom or warm hearted children. Then you can share the thankful coloring pages for the students to color and write what they are grateful for. There are three different handwriting options – single line, two lines or three lines (with a dotted middle line).

Show Gratitude to Others

Then don’t forget to ask yourself how you can show your gratitude to others. This might include volunteering at your school or helping a friend. This will also help teach children the value of giving to others and helping out in your local community.