Gratitude Jar Printable Worksheet & Slips

Gratitude is an essential part of life. If you can learn to practice gratitude everyday, your life will be immensely blessed.

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude”.

-Karl Barth

If you can teach your kids to be grateful, you will be setting them up for success. A simple way to teach your kids about gratitude is creating a gratitude jar, and you can do this at any time of the year.

It’s great during the month of November for Thanksgiving, but you can do it when you feel like your kids just aren’t appreciating what they have. It’s something you can do over and over again because we can all practice gratitude everyday.

In this article I am sharing a gratitude jar printable that you can use to create a gratitude jar at home.

What Is a Gratitude Jar?

A gratitude jar is a simple activity where you learn to think of what you’re grateful for each day. You can set aside a jar to fill with all the things you’re grateful for. Or, you can put in all the things you’re grateful for from the get-go.

What Goes In the Jar?

You can do it two different ways:

Write down on a slip of paper what you’re grateful for and place it in the jar.
Cut up the prompts, put them in the jar, and then draw them out to give you an idea of what to be grateful for.

How To Create a Gratitude Jar Using a Printable

You can use this gratitude jar printable to help you create an amazing gratitude jar however you’d like. There are a ton of options!

Use a mason jar to hold/collect your gratitude. You can label it with one of the 6 designs inside the printable by gluing or taping it to the jar. Or use a ribbon/pretty string to tie it on.
Use the (digital) paper jar to write down what your grateful for on the paper.
You can write directly on the paper jar or use the circles provided. Write them on the circles and glue them to the paper jar.
Cut up the slips of gratitude prompts, put them into a mason jar, and draw one every day (or however often you’d like) to discuss what you’re grateful for.
Cut out the circles, blank slips of paper, or the cute blobs. Write down what you’re grateful for on the paper and put it in the jar. Start collecting them and read them all at the end of each month, or whenever you feel you need a pick me up.
Use the prompts as suggestions to help you write your own.

Examples of Gratitude Jar Printable Slips

There are 5 different gratitude jar slips included in the printable. There are:

blank slips
blank circles
colored blank circles
slips that say “I’m grateful for…”
colored shapes that says “I’m grateful for…”

What’s Included With the Printable Gratitude Jar Worksheet PDF?

In the gratitude Jar PDF you will receive:

6 tag designs to label your jar
5 different jar slips to write what you’re grateful for on
2 digital paper jars to write directly on
Over 35 gratitude prompts for kids
Instructions

Gratitude Jar Instructions

As mentioned above, there are several ways to use a gratitude jar. You just need to find the one that is right for you and your family. Here are a few ideas of how you can use them with kids.

Ways To Use a Thankful Jar with Kids

Cut up some of the blank strips and put them out by the gratitude jar. Have your kids write something and put it in the jar each morning, at bedtime, or at dinner time. At the end of a week, month, or year read all the things everyone was grateful for. The kids could also each have their own jars.
Cut up the prompts and put them in the jar. Draw one each night before bed and have everyone answer. You can also do it in the morning or at dinner time.
Instead of discussing the prompts, you can have your kids write them down in a journal each day.
Use the jar in a kids classroom each day.
The gratitude jar makes a great car conversation. Draw one each day after school or on the way to practice.
Once you have collected quite a few in the jar, read through them and pick your best ones. Hang those up around the house.
Make a scrapbook with your answers.
Alternate drawing a prompt one day and coming up with your own on the next.
Decorate your jar together as a family.

A gratitude jar printable worksheet is a fun and unique way to teach kids the importance of being thankful.

I don’t believe there is anything better you can do in life than to teach your kids how to be thankful. If they can turn it into a habit, their life will be much happier no matter what lies ahead.

The gratitude jar printable is a simple way to implement gratitude into your family. You can use it in so many different ways with just a few minutes each day. You can either use the prompts provided to help your kids know what to be grateful for, or you can come up with your own.

It’s easy to implement gratitude because you can do it right before bed, at dinner time, in the car on the way to school, or randomly throughout the day.

Finally, before you go don’t forget to download your gratitude jar printable now!