Ever the recycle queen of green, I LOVED working with the kids on this one… and a great way to use up old unloved books.
This is very easy to make, the boys’ now have quite a short attention-span for crafting, yet really rose to the challenge – creating templates using REAL Autumn leaves of different shapes which we cut up, several pages at a time for speed, from the pages of this aged book – folding a crease down the centre of the “leaves” to create a more realistic 3Dimensional effect.
We had in preparation, wrapped some lovely string around a shop-bought wreath, however, we have previously used a cereal box to good effect.
9yo thought to add the pine cones – a bit of mixed medium eh?!
We glued the leaves on with our trusty glue gun, overlapping and building as we went along….
Our front door is quite sheltered, so it should be OK for Christmas – looks nice eh?
Equally, the ‘leaf wreath’ would look lovely on an interior door during the holiday period, and we’ll be taking this one down to Granny’s care home for the door to her room this year.
Want to see me talking about this project and other leaf crafts (including our hammered leaf printing and a bubble wrap leaf lamination inspired by Lizzie’s fabulous post)… Click the link and photo left, to watch via youtube…. Maggy Woodley from Red Ted Art hosted a fabulous “Leaf Craft Ideas’ on Google+.
Maggy talked us through some lovely ideas, including leaf bowls whilst wearing a rather attractive leaf crown! More links to follow from Anthea at zingzingtree, thefairyandthefrog, some cute leaf fairies from peaklepie, missielizzie’s decorating pumpkins with leaves and herecomethegirlsblog with their reward chart.
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