Remember when we picked acorns? Well, today we finally got together with some friends to make our acorn crafts. My friend Robin found this cute craft on a kids website. We collected enough acorns to use in our fall decorations around the house & kept a few out to make our "pumpkin-acorns". They were too cute & the kids had a GREAT time making them!
All you need is a handful of acorns w/ the tops OFF & some orange paint & Sharpe marker. Here is Anne Marie painting her acorns/pumpkins orange.
Our friend Mira getting into the act.
Our friends Elsie & Ben doing the same!
It was a little messy (and the moms had to "touch-up" after the kids were done) but it kept their attention for a LONG time !
An example of the "mess"....everyone had bright orange hands!
We let the acorns dry and the kids all went outside to play for a while, but when we came home they had finally dried, so we started to decorate our pumpkin faces......
Yes, folks, she actually drew this face herself...isn't it good?? It looks like a very scary / mad jack-o-lantern doesn't it? I"m sure it was by accident (or she's a genius artist!!)
I helped make some of the faces too -- this is our pumpkin line-up. We'll find someplace cute to put these around the house with our other fall decorations.What a fun little project!!
4 comments:
How adorable! The child's a Picasso. Art school immediatly.
we had a lot of fun! ours still need faces.... maybe today.
Robin
Now that is plain cute! We have piles of acorns in our house ~ Caleb loves to pick them up on walks. I frequently find them in my dryer...
And Ky loves to paint!
Love your little pumpkin patch.
My vote is for the genius artist!! I have seen this idea before and thought that it was so cute...I need some acorns!! Looks like everyone had a great time and what a great way to bring the outdoors in for the holidays!!
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