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    You are here: Home / Art and Crafts / A Wall of Thankful Leaves

     

    A Wall of Thankful Leaves

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    It's time to change up our Giving Thanks at Thanksgiving tradition. For the past two years we've had a thankful tree, but this year I wanted to do something different.

    Countdown to Thanksgiving by recording blessings on crafed leaves.

    We made these newspaper leaves for a wall display and everyday in November we will choose one and write down what we are thankful for. So, by Thanksgiving we should have a whole wall of blessings.

    New Kid helped me slap some autumnal colors on newspaper.

    I would have also used yellow, but we were out. Very oddly, the red paint in the bottle had turned pink. Cheap paint, I guess.

    I cut them in to what I hope are leaf-like shapes and attached them with painter's tape. I'm sure someone more artful than I could create a beautiful display, but I rather like their ruggedness. Since I haven't yet rehung our artwork after repainting the living room, the empty wall was happy to be decorated.

    In case you are interested, I got the idea of painting newspaper from the window display of a local wine shop. Somebody working there must be an artist because there is always some crazy fantastical display in the window. This month the display was rather tame: a bicycle going on a picnic in a whirlwind of colored newspaper leaves. I loved the effect of the paint on newspaper and wanted to figure out a purposeful way of doing that at home. Voilà

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    1. Christy says

      October 26, 2011 at 11:47 am

      I love the newspaper idea!

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    2. MaryAnne says

      October 26, 2011 at 1:53 pm

      The newspaper gives such a nice texture (not sure that's what I should be calling it, but can't think of a better word) to the leaves. We need to start a thankful wall, too.

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    3. Our Side of the Mountain says

      October 26, 2011 at 4:49 pm

      Oh, what a great way to repurpose newspaper! Although we're not perfect in our recycling, we like to reuse things if we can't recycle them (or do both).

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    4. Raising a Happy Child says

      October 26, 2011 at 5:24 pm

      Nice way to reuse newspapers! I am curious to see what will be written on them by Thanksgiving time.

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    5. Beth says

      October 30, 2011 at 6:16 pm

      How clever using the newspaper - that looks super neat. And I look forward to checking out the books I haven't ready =-) ~Beth

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    6. Courtney says

      November 14, 2013 at 2:47 pm

      I think these are just stunning! Thanks for sharing on the Discover and Explore linky!

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