The Gratitude Graffiti Project

What is the Gratitude Graffiti Project?

It is a forty day practice of purposeful appreciation of one’s life through interactive art.   

During the month of November, Horizon Science Academy- Dayton Elementary students focused on the theme of gratitude.  The students in room 177 arrived to school at the beginning of the month to find their door decorated with a graffiti board and three post-it notes on their desk.

Through this project students were asked to:

1. Contemplate a source of gratitude in their lives and then 

2. Express that thought of thankfulness. 

The students expressed their thought of thankfulness by posting the notes on the graffiti board on our classroom door.  Each day, students recorded at least one new thing they were thankful for.  

Outside our door, we stationed a GRATITUDE STOPS, where a person walking by can mentally note something they are grateful for or to take it a step further and give a gift to our community by actually writing what they are grateful for that day on our “Gratitude Graffiti” wall.

Through The Gratitude Graffiti Project, students were participating in a form of art, they were fully engaged in creating the art that expresses their gratitude. Through art, people can contemplate, create and rejuvenate and awaken a whole new perspective on how to look at how great life can be.