tutorial tuesday: holiday thank yous

I’ve dedicated January’s tutorials to letter writing. To start off, I’ve made a holiday thank yous tutorial. So begin your new year with gratitude and write a thank you.

Here is my quick start guide to writing your holiday thank yous.

1. Gather writing materials: paper, envelopes, addresses, stamps, markers, stickers, etc. Keep it simple. Don’t get hung up on making/buying some fancy card. That part doesn’t matter as much as the handwritten note. I wrote mine with crayons on construction paper. To help my toddler write his own letters, I made a thank you form letter he could fill in himself. He told me what he wanted to say and I filled in the blanks and then he traced over my letters. He made little drawings in the box at the bottom of the page.

2. Prepare a list of who you need to send thanks to. Before we started writing our letters, we each took a “Holiday Thank Yous” checklist and wrote down the people we needed to thank and why. The boys really got a kick out of checking the box next to each line on their lists when they completed a letter.

3. Gather your family together at the kitchen table and start writing. The more the merrier! We spent an hour last night writing our thank yous. What a great way to teach the kiddos the importance of saying “thank you”.

In case you have some letter writing to do, I’ve included two freebies!

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Happy thank you writing to you and yours! Let me know how it goes.