Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Fall Tree

Just For Fun
Here is a great way to bring a little bit of home-made fall into your house.
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What You'll Need:
- Coffee Filters
- Spray bottle
- Water color paints
- Paint brush
- Scissors
- Glue gun
- Tree branches


The How To:
- First get out some coffee filters and spray them with water from the spray bottle.
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-Then, start painting them with the water colors. It's fun to watch the colors spread out on the wet coffee filter. I had my kids use fall colors (yellow, orange, red, green, brown) to paint them with.

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-Next (when the coffee filter was dry) I folded it in half several times until it was too small to fold anymore.
-Then I drew half a leaf on it and then cut it out.
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-Next comes the glueing on of your cute leaves. Put a drop of glue from the glue gun on the end of a leaf and stick it on the branch.

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And there you have it. A fun and easy craft that lets you prolong the feel of fall after all the leaves have fallen off the trees outside.
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6 comments:

  1. It's beautiful Carrie! I love it!

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  2. Neat--now all I need is a tree willing to let me have a few twigs of the right size and I should be all set. Oh yes, and coffee filters too which I have been meaning to buy anyway for the longest time. Clever idea, Merry

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  3. Zachary and I made this last night. It turned out so beautiful. This is a great project for the kids to help with!

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  4. We made a forest of these yesterday. They turned out so pretty. Thanks for sharing!

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