Lovely Little Fireflys!!

A few months ago as I was cruising around a couple of friends blogs, I stumbled upon these beauties. As soon as I saw them I knew I had to make them with the kids. I have always been a tremendous fan of Eric Carle's work, particularly the illustrations that are used in his works, they are so bright and beautiful, drawing you in even more to the story they accompany. Here are our finished results, we are going to get some of the battery operated tea lights to go in them so they can be displayed in their rooms, I may also add some wire and some nice sparkley beads so they can be hung.

Drying:
Dry and ready to flicker!

Let Fall Begin!!!!

So this weekend the kids and I worked on some craft projects I had been gathering goodies for.

Our first project was to complete a banner that was started from a project posted at Life with Little Ones, Corey had made some super cute leaf rubbings out of newspaper. I used this idea for one of our brownie meetings and the girls just loved it. When we got ours home, we realized that we needed it to be longer to span the distance of our mantel, so we headed to the front yard for a few more leaves. Once we were done with the rubbings and had cut them out, I added the letters F-A-L-L to four of the largest leaves for a wonderful banner to adorn our fireplace mantel.

Love the natural outdoor beauty that these rubbings bring to the indoors of our home.