Whew. The toddler activities have definitely been lacking around here lately. It’s not because we haven’t been doing fun and educational things together. Nope. It’s all because of the nasty sickness my family has been passing around this past month. We’ve done breathing treatments, steam showers, antibiotics, Advil, Tylenol, cough drops, vitamin c…you name it…we’ve done it. Thankfully, I think we’re on the mend, and my little guy and I got busy this week with a Fall inspired art piece.
I loved the pumpkin art so much from last month that I wanted to continue with another seasonal themed art project for the month of November. To make your own, you’ll need:
white cardstock
buttons
fall colored cardstock
brown marker and crayon
Elmer’s school glue or a gluestick
black Sharpie marker
One thing I learned from our last art project, it’s easier to just get everything out and ready to go and then let him explore and touch and figure out what he wants to do with everything {within reason of course}. We started out by tracing Jackson’s hand and forearm onto the white cardstock using the brown marker. I filled in some lines to give the trunk some definition and Jackson decided he wanted to color in the trees a little bit with the brown marker. I honestly couldn’t believe he stayed inside the lines of the trunk.
Once the trunks were ready to go, we spent some time applying the glue and adding torn pieces of paper and buttons as the colorful fall leaves.
Again, I was amazed at how great he did with gluing and placing the objects on his trees. He was so proud of all of his work {and so was I}.
Soon we had a couple of beautiful and original masterpieces, and I eagerly added one to a frame on our new DIY’ed picture frame ledge {details on that coming soon}.
As with all art projects that Jackson and I have completed together, I added his name, the month and the year to the bottom. After all, I’ll definitely want to remember how old he was when we made all of these fun projects together!
I’ve already got my wheels turning on what we can make in December. Any suggestions?!
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