Carrot tasting
Purpose: Children get to know the orange vegetable carrot and learn to be grateful for food.
Activities:
Children helped to peel carrots, squeezed carrot juice.
After tasting the juice, we talked about its taste. We asked: "Can we thank nature and the people who brought them to us?"
The children said "Thank you" together for the delicious food.

Children play GRAZIATTOLO. They learn to thank by putting the orange note written with their thoughts in the jar. The activity is done in a circle, all together after lighting a candle.

**Orange Handprints with Words of Gratitude**
**Goal:** Children learn to express gratitude creatively.
The children created handprints on paper.
Together with the teacher, they added short words of gratitude: "Thank you for the smile, kindness, care, sun, life, food, warmth, and love."
We discussed how important it is to thank for beautiful things.

We played the wonderful GRAZIATTOLO. We talked about gratitude and after each child said 'thank you' for something they have. They drew it and placed it in the gratitude box which they painted orange before. Great suggestions were heard and the process made the children very happy. Once the box is full we will have our gratitude celebration. But I think we will need to make a bigger box to hold our 'thanks" because there were too many!

Children say the nicest thanks!!!

Our little learners embarked on a colorful journey to connect the vibrant orange color with the value of gratitude. We read the inspiring book *The Tailor of Words* by Antonis Papatheodoulou, which tells the story of a tailor who doesn't just sew clothes—he sews with words.
Inspired by his example, we decided to become tailors of words ourselves! Together, we crafted The Orange Sweater of Gratitude, weaving it with words that express thankfulness and kindness, like "thank you".

After some readings focused on THANK YOU, we open the "graziaretto" and give them their cards to take home

ORANGE - GRATITUDE

The children draw the pictures for which they are grateful, after which we learned the song,, I dressed in Thank you!

The children listened to the song: "Thank you!" then you talked about the meaning and use of this magic word.

After discussions about gratitude, during which we highlighted what we should be grateful for, the children cut out leaves on which we wrote the words they chose. With these leaves, they created the Tree of Gratitude.

Nagy Georgeta Victorița Secondary School nr 27 Timișoara România Orange Gratitude

După o discuție interactivă despre recunoștință și importanța exprimării ei, copiii au reflectat asupra lucrurilor pentru care se simt recunoscători. Apoi, fiecare copil și-a conturat și decupat propria mână din hârtie colorată, scriind sau desenând pe ea un gând de recunoștință. Toate aceste mâini au fost reunite într-o creație colectivă simbolică – Copacul Recunoștinței – care a prins viață în sala de grupă, ca expresie a gândurilor bune și a inimilor deschise.