art

By Melessa

To celebrate the first day of autumn, we just had to do this fall leaf project. I love this project, because it’s cheap, easy to do, and would be equally fun for an adult craft night or for a kid’s art project. All you need is a few sheets of newspaper and some craft paint, in whatever colors you’d like to use to reflect your seasonal décor—I’ve done this project with my boys for both the spring and fall.

For this fall project, I went crazy with lots of colors. We simply spread out a single layer of newspapers on the table and let them go crazy with different brush strokes, gradually filling up the entire space with paint.  The bigger the brush, the faster you fill.  Make sure you let one color dry completely before starting another if you don’t want them to be blended–or if you’re like me, mix and blend and see what happens. Read More »