Fall Art

I have taken Thursdays as a sort-of "no housework" day to do things with the kids. Ellie doesn't have school, and we don't have a sitter or any daytime activities.
So today, since it was one of the first actually cool days in a while, I was thinking fall.
I remembered this pin that I saw HERE Yes, it is in Italian, but it doesn't really require detailed instruction.
My kids are 4 and 2, so our projects didn't turn out quite so nice, but the kids had fun and it was an easy project.
As an added bonus, I also got to use my favorite toy- my Silhouette Cameo!
I found an image of trees, and selected out just the branches to cut out, enlarged it so that two would fit on a piece of construction paper (construction paper does not fair the best in a silhouette- it tore a little, and I had to do a bit of trimming with scissors- I think it is just too fragile, I set the blade to 2)
Then I pasted the bare trees to blue construction paper, set the kids up with finger paint and q-tips, and let them at it.
Here is the result:

I actually think that Ellie's turned out pretty cute- she is very orderly, and did each branch a separate color, then switched to brushes so that she could do clouds and a sun (which of course Greg then wanted to do as well!) Ellie also insisted on a sticker- in school, they generally get a stamp or a sticker on all their work. 

We have been working on her writing her name, so I generally have her write it on everything she does!