Thanksgiving Thankful Pie: A Family Activity To Give Thanks

This November, leading up to Thanksgiving, we really wanted to be able to concentrate on remembering the things we’re thankful for. So we decided to make this Thanksgiving thankful pie. Putting it together was both simple and fun. We’ll each be adding an apple slice with something we’re thankful for every day. Then, on Thanksgiving, we’ll open up the pie, pull out the apples, and share what we’ve written. If you want to make your own pie, here are instructions and photos describing how we did it.

What you’ll need:

Two pieces of white cardstock

A different colored piece of construction paper for each member of your family

Crayons

Scissors

Glue

Stapler

Zipper bags or envelopes

First draw a pie shape on one piece of cardstock. Then place that piece on top of the other piece of card stock, and cut out your pie. You’ll need to identical pies which is why it’s necessary to cut out both pieces of card stock. Alternatively, you could cut out the first pie, trace it on to the second piece of card stock, and cut it out.

Next, Staple the bottomed three edges of the pies together. Be careful not to staple the top, rounded portion of the pies as this is where you’ll insert your thankful apple slices.

Now you can color and decorate your pie in any way you like.

At this point, you’re ready to make the apple slices that you’ll put inside the pie. Each member of your family will need a different color of apples so that when you pull the slices out of the pie on Thanksgiving, you’ll know who they belong to. Draw and cut an apple slice out of one of the pieces of construction paper. Then trace that same slice on each color of paper. You’ll need one slice of each color for the number of days before Thanksgiving which is on November 27, this year. Place all the apple slices of each color into separate zipper bags or envelopes to make them easy to find. Then, each day, have everyone remove one slice from their bag and write something they are thankful for. The apples are then put into the pocket of the pie where it will remain until Thanksgiving. If you have young children who are unable to write, you can have them dictate to you. To make it more interesting, you might have the youngest children take turns dictating to different members of the family so there will still be some surprises in the pie.

We want to wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving this year, and we hope our thankful pie has given you a chance to think about those things in life for which you, too, are thankful.