autumn garland.

On Friday, Thea didn't take her nap, and we were both tired and stuck in the house because of an afternoon rain. After lots of tracing and coloring, I remembered that we had brought a few leaves inside from our morning trip to the playground. I thought it might be fun to try some leaf rubbings.

First, we selected a few warm autum colors and took the papers off the crayons (which proved to be much more difficult than I had anticipated!).

Then we placed the leaves under our paper and started coloring.

Once we had filled up a few large pages with leaves, I roughly cut around the edges of the leaves.

Then, I punched a small hold in the top of each leaf...

and strung the leaves on a length of red and white baker's twine, tying a small knot so that the leaves would stay in place.

And there you have it!

I ended up with quite a long strand, so I cut it in two, and hung one along our mantle...

and one in front of one of the windows in our living room.

What are some of your favorite autumn crafts?

Comments

[Kat]

Those are lovely! Immi's favorite thing to do with crayons lately is peel them, I'm happy to send her over some time to help ;)

The other day we collected a pine cone to make a feeder. We spread it with peanut butter and would have rolled it in seeds if we'd had any, then hung it out front. It disappeared from the tree pretty quickly... not sure the squirrels need any encouragement to take things from my yard, but we had fun putting it together.

[Alex@LateEnough]

This is fabulous! Totally doing it this week with my kids.