Gratitude Tree & Mindfulness

Gratitude trees are helpful for self-reflection and for practicing mindfulness. The gratitude tree can be used for Thanksgiving and anytime throughout the year. As you wait for the new year, you can make a gratitude tree out of Xerox paper, scrapbook paper, or digital art. Additionally, you can paint a tree and paint big leaves. Nonetheless, you can draw a tree and write what you are grateful for inside the leaves. 

This mindfulness practice helps you to express your gratitude. It also makes you concentrate on things that make you feel grateful. Gratitude trees can be made at home, and your child can color the leaves. However, you can make a gratitude tree as a family project. As well as making a gratitude tree on a poster board and hanging it in your hallway of your home. 

You can also make a gratitude tree and put the year that the tree was made. Mindfulness and gratitude can be practiced together to improve your sleep, to reduce your anxiety, and to have a better perspective about what is good in your life. Make a mini gratitude tree on an index card or a four by six paper to frame it on your desk. Additionally, you can make a mini gratitude tree with popsicle sticks, chenille stems, or on a paper card. This project can be done in thirty minutes or an hour depending on the materials that you use to make your gratitude tree. 

After you are done making your gratitude tree, you can take a picture and save it as a reminder to practice gratitude. You can also make a gratitude tree in your artwork journal or artwork notebook. No matter how you make your gratitude tree, practice mindfulness and gratitude in the morning. This can help you with improving your social skills and to have empathy. Lastly you can practice mindfulness and gratitude before going to sleep.

If your workplace has a paper gratitude tree on a wall, you can participate by writing inside the paper leaves with an acid free gel pen. Gratitude trees can also help you feel grateful and appreciate everything about your job. Another way is by typing what you are thankful for and gluing the typed words on the leaves. Share what you wrote in the leaves with your co-workers, family, or friends. Be honest and write good thoughts about what you are thankful for. 

Making a gratitude tree can also be a learning tool, help you feel positivity, and to help develop appreciation. Besides adding paper leaves to your gratitude tree, you can add paper shaped fruits and paper shaped birds. Sometimes, in school classrooms, you might see paper gratitude trees on the classroom walls with paper shaped flowers. Have fun making your gratitude trees with your friends, co-workers, classmates, and family. Here are websites about gratitude trees and mindfulness. 

Gratitude Tree-New Leaf Foundation:

https://newleaffoundation.com/gratitude-tree/

Gratitude Tree-Pals for Healing:

https://www.palsforhealing.org/post/gratitude-tree

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