It’s been unseasonably warm around here — check out the flip flops and dress! And the Easter Basket there…well, would you believe it’s for collecting Fall leaves?
We don’t have a lot of Fall color yet, but enough leaf beauties have hit the pavement that we ventured out for some Leaf Pickin’.
N picked up all of her favorites. She was only limited by the amount of space she had in the basket. My plan was to take them home and make some negative space impressions of the leaves with a spray bottle.
When we got home we laid them all out on huge sheets of paper.
And then had a snack. Snacks are important.
If we hadn’t been so impatient, pressing the leaves for a day would have made our leaf impressions clearer, but I was working with a three-year old, and, well, they like to do things when they think of them. Patience only goes so far.
I filled a spray bottle with a solution of 1/2 water and 1/2 liquid watercolors. We used orange, but you could use any color.
And oh-my-goodness if this wasn’t the most fun part of the entire project!
It could have been the project all by itself.
And we could have done it outside. 😜That would have been smart.
But fortunately our table was covered with paper and plastic, and the kids sprayed to their heart’s content.
Despite some curling leaves, you can see that the impressions are still pretty clear. It worked best when the kids stood up on a chair and sprayed straight down. Once dry, we hung one above our play kitchen.
And once this was done, we went back outside for bike riding, popsicle eating, and watermelon seed spitting.
Really. It’s been that warm.
How are you enjoying these first days of Fall?
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