Celebrating Autumn
We smell their smells and touch their veins.
Bright jewels from the crowns of trees.
We trace their shapes. We say their names. - Carole Gerber (Leaf Jumpers)
Satch spent the morning creating these fall leaves using watercolor on diffuser paper (which I purchased here). You can also use coffee filters because it's the same kind of paper, but we gave up paper filters many years ago. I added some grommets to hang them in the entry way to the living/play area.
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Just let the your wees paint the leaves with watercolor a/o marker and spritz with water to blend. They can also use crayon and colored pencil before painting to create a resist effect.
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And of course we hung our acorn ornaments!
Labels: art and craft, kid craft, play
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4 Comments:
Fun! Love the bright colors. We painted some leaves using filters last fall - had to buy some for the project - never thought of diffuser paper. Very cool!
What fun! I will have to try this.
this will be today's project! great idea!
xoxo
Nice! We make butterflies this way (with clothespin bodies) for Easter.
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