Easy Pumpkin Painting

Rather than just painting a pumpkin I thought it’d be fun to do it a little bit differently.

You’ll need: a cookie sheet (I covered it with aluminum foil to make clean up easier), red and yellow paint, sponge, pumpkin shaped paper.

Mix yellow and red paint together to see what happens.

Then put your pumpkin down on the paint and press.

Our finished pumpkins.  You could add a face to your pumpkin too if you wanted to make a jack-o-lantern.

Pretty Fall Leaves

These leaves are so simple and they turn out so pretty.

Here’s what you’ll need: coffee filters, markers and a spray bottle.

Cut the coffee filters into leaf shapes.

Color the leaves using some fall colors.  The more you fill up the leaf with colors the better it will turn out.

Put some water in your spray bottle and lightly spray the leaf.  The colors will run together creating a very pretty look.

Our finished leaves.

Leaf Rubbing

Our theme last week was fall.  The first activity we did was some leaf rubbing.

Here’s what you’ll need: construction paper, leaves, crayons with paper removed, tape, scissors and white computer paper.

Tape a leaf to the table and then put the white computer paper on top of the leaf.  Add a couple of pieces of tape to the paper to keep it in place.

Rub the side of the crayon over the spot where the leaf is.

Cut out the leaf rubbing and glue it onto a piece of fall colored construction paper.

Paper Plate Apple

Here is a very simple apple craft:

We were supposed to use a paper plate but when we went to do the craft I realized that all of our paper plates were gone.  So I cut a circle out of a cardboard box and that worked just fine.

Hailey tore up a piece of red construction paper and glued it onto the “paper plate.”

She added two green leaves and here is our finished apple.