To welcome autumn, we decided to do a fall leaf craft project. We collected fallen leaves and yellow petals in our back yard. Our neighbors have a beautiful tree covered in yellow flowers that hangs over our yard. There are always butterflies fluttering around it and the area below is carpeted with yellow petals. Not quite fall leaves but they look right and it's not easy to get the fall leaf experience in California.
I printed off a variety of fall leaf outlines (I love how easy the internet makes things like this for me). They colored them however they wanted. D used only fall colors, while T really wanted blue leaves.
After tearing up the leaves and petals into little bits, it was time for the glue. I outlined the leaves with the glue in sections. The girls spread the leaf bits over the glue and patted them down in place.
It took M a little bit to learn to wait before patting down the leaves until there were enough covering the glue that her hands wouldn't get all messy, but she had the hang of it by the end.
I shook off the extra leaf pieces back into the bucket for them to control the mess. It was a messy project but not too bad and clean up was easy.
Voila! A fun fall project that got them outside for a bit but wasn't too messy.
