crafts | Adventures of Four

This is my first post after our home PC decided to commit suicide last week. J struggled all weekend to recover our data and put it onto our MacBook Pro. It was a herculean effort given how difficult it was to access the files and the fact that we brought home a new (to us) boat on Friday that required a complete fence rebuild on our side yard for yacht storage. More on that later though! Just know that it’s a miracle that I’m able to be Internet-functional today.

The boys and I worked on a simple fall craft today in the form of a cute autumn tree. Cutie Pie got started this morning by painting two sheets of construction paper with washable paint in fall colors. It took a long time for his artwork to dry due to the monsoon that we’ve been experiencing this week. My plan was to have Cousin B make a tree too but the paint hadn’t dried by the time he had to leave this afternoon.

The idea is really simple. I cut out a tree form from black construction paper. Then I cut out a bunch of leaf shapes from the pages that Cutie Pie had painted earlier in the day. Wildman helped us adhere the tree and the leaves to the sticky side of a sheet of contact paper this evening. Then we stuck it to our sliding glass door.

Viola!

I give you our fall tree! I love how it turned out! It was a quick and easy autumn craft that I will keep in my mental file for years to come.

Valentine’s Day Crafts and Other Lazy Day Fun

Steph taught our Zumba class Tuesday morning and my friend drove Wildman to preschool. So, I got to lounge around in my PJ’s all morning long. It was wonderful!