We still have quite a lot of leaves hanging around our neighbourhood (on the ground, anyway), so when I saw this post on making pictures from pressed leaves, I wanted to give it a try with the children.
Our results weren't quite as fabulous as the ones in the original post, but we had fun. Strange that although we have been doing crafts with autumn leaves for many years now, I had never thought of simply gluing pressed leaves together into a picture.
Kira made a bunny:
Owen made a monster:
And Jasper made what he called a leaf pile. And then, before I could take a picture of it, he added more glue. And more glue. And a hazelnut, it looks like. And then he added more glue, until the bottle was empty. He squeezed the last bit that was left onto his brother's picture, apparently.
It was fun not only to make the craft, but to go for a walk looking for different shapes of leaves. Next year I'll try this again, but maybe I'll supervise the glue usage a bit more carefully. :)
Has anyone else been doing anything fun with the last remaining autumn leaves?
I love their creativeness with the leaves...and glue, Laura. It's almost summer here in New Zealand..and it's very dry. We could do with a little rain..preferrably overnight while I'm sleeping :-)
Posted by: Julia | November 18, 2011 at 02:53 AM
That looks cool..we made placemats..a piece of card with pressed leaves glued on it..fern did a pattern and iris just stuck a few on..i then laminated them and bingo..autumnal placemats..i love using whats around us to create pretty things that can kept for a while.
sara
Posted by: sara | November 18, 2011 at 03:01 PM
They came out wonderfully! Love the little bunny and its expression. We're hoping to start collecting earlier next year and try again. Of course, lack of time is a great hindrance.
Posted by: Ellen | December 2, 2011 at 02:34 PM