Fall Finger Painting

 

 

Nice weather outside yesterday, so we decided to do a fall finger painting. I have been wanting to buy Crayola finger paints for a while, but they are like $7.00 for four paints and every time I put them in my cart, I always ended up putting them back because I couldn't justify the price.  

 

Last week I got lucky finding a set of fall colors on clearance at Micheals for $2.99!!!  

 

So I had the ideas that I would dip the kids' hands in paint and we would make a pretty painting that looked like fall leaves.

 

HA!

 

It went NOTHING like that.

 

Here is how it did go:

 

Princess first put on a beanie hat! No clue why, but I think it adds to the fall theme.

 

 

She dove right into the paints that I put onto a cookie sheet from the Dollar Tree.

 

 

She loved painting with the brush.



 

 

 

Princess did a lot of paint-squeezing too!

 

 

This is her cleaning off her hands...and wiping it onto the painting:

 

 

 

Then Son got involved:

 

 

 A budding artist I think:

 

  

He really gets into his work:

 

 

Here is the finished masterpiece:

 

 

I still had vision to turn this into a tree, so we cut out some leaf shapes from the painting and Princess and I glued them onto a tree that I drew. HERE IS OUR FALL TREE:



 

 

 

Somehow these projects NEVER go as planned, but always turn out way BETTER than I imagined: