Thanksgiving Activity: {Create) a Family Journal This is the perfect time of the year to work with your kids to create a family journal. A Thanksgiving activity such as this one can bring the family together! Here at the Kids Activities Blog we have been sharing fun family Thanksgiving activities and hope you have enjoyed creating new memories together. Thanksgiving Activity What's the essence of Thanksgiving in your family? Looking in from the outside -- from the UK, where we don't celebrate Thanksgiving as such -- there are two things I'd love to borrow from the celebration to share with my own children. The first is the sentiment of gratitude, of stopping to appreciate all you have and giving thanks. The second is the idea of the whole family coming together to be part of something special. Inspired by these two ideas, here's what we're doing to mark Thanksgiving in our family. It's a whole family project, with everyone joining together in the thanksgiving activity to make a Thanksgiving Family Journal. Family Journal How to make a Thanksgiving Family Journal We're taking a simple notebook and turning it into both a work of art and a journal that we can use all year round to record what's special to us. Step one is to decorate the cover of our Thanksgiving Family Journal, and I'm putting the children in charge of this and seeing what they come up with. Some ideas you could try, if you want to make a journal