fun fall craft made for a perfect afternoon with my kids

he did participate for a few minutes...but mostly he ate pumpkin muffins :-)

i got this idea from meg.
if you don't read her blog, you must. she's real and creative and beautiful and has the best ideas and recipe's and is funny, too!

first we drew trees (just the branches) using pencils, then went over the lines with oil pastels.

then we used watercolors to fill in all the white spaces between the branches.

my "kelly days" of painting came in handy...i had all this stuff in my craft closet!

the kids really got into it.

love the tongue :-)

rebekah kept going back to the pics on meg's blog and copies the colors on one of the examples.

aren't they great??
i finally replaced the frames in our hallway...they had the pictures the kids drew of our family 2 summers ago!

i made one, too.
can you tell who's is who's??
(bailey, me, sawyer, me, joshua, rebekah) :-)