Our fall craft

Ever since the leaves have been changing colors D has been collecting them. Whenever we go for a walk we find pretty leaves - red, yellow, green, and brown. And he wants to save them all. Every single one. So we started putting them in an empty cracker box where they promptly turned brown (if they weren't already) and crunchy. I felt like our pretty leaves deserved more than the cardboard confinement, so I started looking online for some crafts. When I didn't find any that I liked, I kind of took some ideas and made up my own. Yikes.

So one warm afternoon we picked these...

Do you think we got enough (it's about four layers thick)? D sure didn't. I think he
would have picked our tree bare given the opportunity and a very tall ladder.

And then using two pairs of scissors, a piece of cardboard, about half of a bottle of Elmer's glue, some big heavy books, and one paperclip, we made this...

And we hung it here...


And darn it all, we think it's beautiful! I don't know how long it will be beautiful before it turns crunchy and brown. Maybe it will still be beautiful then? Actually, I'm not so sure how long it will stay on the door. It's not the sturdiest construction. I think a little gust of wind might be its demise. Oh well, at least we have a picture of it at it's prime.

We also stuffed some of the leftover leaves (yes, there were some left over...like six) into this glass and put D's pumpkin he got at preschool on top because we didn't know what else to do with it.

Please, all of you official craft-y people, try not to pass out from all the cardinal craft rules (of which I am unaware but am sure exist) that were broken during our attempts to fashion fall crafts. Oh...gotta run...I think Martha Stewart is calling!