Fall Crafts

I've been trying to teach the girls about the change in seasons from summer to fall, but it's pretty hard when most books just focus on the changing of the leaves. So instead we've turned to the fall holidays and some stories from the bible, and then we make a craft. It's a good formula: read a story, make a craft; read another story, make another craft. I put up some examples of what we've been doing. I was very impressed with Zoe's trees that she made after reading a story in her children's bible, and Sophie did a great job making the face on her pumpkin. The pumpkin craft is simple: stuff a paper lunch sack with newspaper, tie the top with string, paint the bottom orange and the stem green, then draw a face with a sharpie. We read the story, "The Five Little Pumpkins" first and talked about the different shapes that made up the pumpkin faces. Zoe did a great job painting but didn't quite get the concept of drawing the face. Oh well, she is only two!