Thanksgiving is a great time to teach children about being thankful and feeling grateful. A wonderful way to help them understand gratefulness is to have them experience how great it feels to help others. My students adopted a nursing home to care for this thanksgiving. This is one of the activities we did. The students decorated this placemat to send for them to use for Thanksgiving dinner. We discussed other ways to be helpful & grow their helpful spirits each day. (simply change the school name to your own)