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.
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. VoilÃ
Extra Credit Reading (in addition to Multicultural Thanksgiving picture books) :
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Christy says
I love the newspaper idea!
MaryAnne says
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.
Our Side of the Mountain says
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).
Raising a Happy Child says
Nice way to reuse newspapers! I am curious to see what will be written on them by Thanksgiving time.
Beth says
How clever using the newspaper - that looks super neat. And I look forward to checking out the books I haven't ready =-) ~Beth
Courtney says
I think these are just stunning! Thanks for sharing on the Discover and Explore linky!