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A Gratitude Jar Lesson Instructions

This document provides instructions for creating a gratitude jar activity for elementary and middle school students. The activity aims to help students establish a regular practice of expressing gratitude. Students will decorate empty jars to serve as containers where they can place written notes listing things they are grateful for on a daily, weekly, or as-feeling basis. The jars will be displayed as a reminder for students to reflect on and appreciate the positive things in their lives. The document includes materials needed, learning objectives, step-by-step instructions for personalizing jars and writing gratitude notes, and tips for facilitating the activity.

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A Gratitude Jar Lesson Instructions

This document provides instructions for creating a gratitude jar activity for elementary and middle school students. The activity aims to help students establish a regular practice of expressing gratitude. Students will decorate empty jars to serve as containers where they can place written notes listing things they are grateful for on a daily, weekly, or as-feeling basis. The jars will be displayed as a reminder for students to reflect on and appreciate the positive things in their lives. The document includes materials needed, learning objectives, step-by-step instructions for personalizing jars and writing gratitude notes, and tips for facilitating the activity.

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A GRATITUDE JAR

SEL SKILL(S): RECOMMENDED GRADES:


Communication, Emotion Regulation Elementary and Middle

MATERIALS NEEDED: LEARNING OBJECTIVE:


Printable art and gratitude slips In this lesson, we’ll help you establish a
A clear jar (pint or quart work well) regular routine for being thankful by creating a
Glue or tape, scissors gratitude jar where students add gratitude
Optional: Additional decorations: art, notes more frequently.
images, stickers, ribbon, etc.

INSTRUCTIONS:

We recommend that each student create and personalize a jar; however, if it is more appropriate,
you may decide to create a single jar that is shared by the entire class. In either case, the jar
should be displayed in a location that will be noticed, like a student workspace or on your desk at
school.

You can have students add notes to the jar every day, every week, or simply when they are feeling
grateful. And then, at the end of the semester or year, students can open their jars and enjoy
reading all the things they were grateful for during that time.

Note: While the jar is just a container, it is also a visual, symbolic reminder to add items and to
reflect on being grateful for the things we have. So we encourage you to have students spend
adequate time decorating the jars so they will feel proud of their creations.

Find a Suitable Gratitude Jar


An empty spaghetti sauce, pickle, or salsa jar will work well as will many jars that get tossed into
the recycling. And if the jar has a label, which it probably will, soaking the jar in water overnight
will make it much easier to remove the label.

Note: If you or your students don’t have a jar, use an empty cup to get started, and when you have
a jar, go back and decorate.
Create Decorations and Personalize
On the first page of the printable, we have created labels and simple shapes that students can
color, cut out, and attach to their jars. But don’t be limited by what we have provided. Students
should create their own art, clip images from magazines, use ribbon, stickers, etc.

Write Notes for the Gratitude Jar


On the printable, we have a few prompts like these:
1. I am grateful for my family because ___________________
2. I appreciate my friend ___________ because _____________
3. I am glad that I don’t have to do ___________________
Blank slips are also provided so students can create their own gratitude notes.

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