Welcome Autumn!

I love fall! I think I can safely say it's my favorite time of year. I enjoying watching the leaves change, and seeing mums and pumpkins find homes on my neighbor's porches. I love to bake and with the temperature dropping I don't mind turning my oven on. Just last week I made pumpkin pie, crock pot apple sauce, and chocolate chip pumpkin bread. I think apple crisp is next on my list!

I also love doing crafts with the kids, and am always searching the Internet for new fun, toddler friendly, and thrifty craft ideas. Yesterday I ran across a blog with an awesome fall craft that I knew we could do. I changed it up just a little bit, because I'm not a fan of handing two four year old boys and my two year old daughter paint brushes and letting them loose.

First we had to have a tree, so I convinced daddy to help because I have NO drawing ability.So thank you daddy for helping my thoughts become a reality. After he drew the outline and I cut it out, i tried taping it to our storm door. I had imagined it there all day and was very disappointed when I realized the glass was so cold the tape just wasn't going to stick. The only other place I could think to put it was in our stair well and while it's not what I had imagined, it works.

With the tree up and ready it was time to set the kids to work on the leaves. So I took out some coffee filters, and some red, orange, and yellow markers and let the kids color them however they wanted.After they finished coloring I had them use a water bottle to
spray to coffee filters so that all the colors would bleed together.

After we sprayed all the coffee filters I laid them out to dry and put the kids down for their naps! While everyone was napping I cut the dried coffee filters into leaf shapes and taped them on our tree using double sided tape.

Our finished project!