Week 1: Thank You Cards

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.
Have you used one to say "thank you?"
~William A. Ward

For week one, we focused on Thank You cards. This is the perfect time of year to write them.

It seems so simple of an idea...writing thank you cards. However I truly believe that teaching our children to be grateful is one of the most important things we can teach them.

First we had a little lesson. We talked about how nice it is to hear a "thank you" when we do something nice for someone. We also talked about how we can feel sad when we do something nice don't get any acknowledgments. After that we read the story of the 10 Lepers in the Bible. Only one of the lepers goes back to thank Jesus after being healed.


We made a list of the people we could send cards to. We hadn't sent any cards out for the Christmas presents we received yet. So thought we'd do that and send out a couple other thank you cards. Our list included grandparents and auntie. Then we added the girls' teachers. We talked about others we could thank, such as the mailman, our Bishop, and church teachers. In the end we had time to send out 7 cards with pictures.


The girls had a great time. Wish we could see the smiles on the faces of those who receive the cards. Since we can't, we talked about how they will be smiling and thinking of us when they read the card.

We ended with a piece of cake and then off to bed.

(This was the first idea in Merrilee Boyack's book, 52 Weeks of Service. She is an LDS author and lecturer.)