Joyfully Weary

This past week we to welcomed Autumn by reading a few or our favorite fall themed books * and by making our own autumn trees.  Our Supplies: paper towel tube, scissors, brown marker, glue, green, red, orange, and brown tissue squares Step 1 : Cut strips 1/2 to 2/3 down your paper towel tube. These will become your branches. You can also cut the tops of the strips in to smaller sections to create more (smaller) branches Step 2 : Separate and twist your "branches" to form a tree shape Step 3 : Use the brown marker to draw bark on your tree trunk and branches. Step 4 : Apply small glue dots to a branch. if the glue comes out in lines that's ok too :)  Step 5 : Crumble tissue paper and place it over glue Step 6 :   Repeat steps 4 & 5 until you are satisfied with the amount of foliage on your tree. That's it, you now have darling miniature trees packed full of autumn leaves! * Here are the a...

While we were fixing up our schoolroom I spotted some uniquely shaped paint chips at Home Depot that I thought they would make great fall leaves. Since we were stocking up on other paint supplies I didn't feel guilty grabbing a bunch.  I wasn't sure how we'd use them at first but after a little thought I decided to make a tree from which the leaves could hang and "fall". I used a couple 50%-off coupons at Jo-Ann Fabrics to buy a yard of brown felt and a roll of adhesive hook velcro.  I had originally just planned on cutting the felt into a simple tree about three feet tall but when I told Husbandie my plan, he took over and came up with something much cooler... husbandie's floor to ceiling corner tree. *the home sign is always hanging on that wall, i love  how he spaced the branches around it While he was working on the tree I cut squares of velcro and stuck them to the paint chips.  there is a little punch out on the paint chips, ...