Tuesday Crafternoon: Halloween Tree

My daughter, my ‘Bean’, is a project/artwork factory. Give the girl some paper/scissors/glue/crayons and she will wildly produce mass amounts of finished product. We cherish every piece, of course, but there comes a time when we just can’t do anything with it. Our house is just a whirlwind of paper pieces and glitter and markers without tops (she is very intense in her creating).
My Crafternoon project this week is an attempt to focus the creative process …and perhaps save a family member from going missing under piles of art.

After scavenging for appropriate fallen tree branches in our yard, we painted a couple of them black (we used acrylic paint) and sprinkled silver glitter on them before they dried. I popped them in a vase and Voila!: instant Halloween Tree. Bean has already created a paper witch ornament and a sparkly ghost (glue and glitter on wax paper) ornament to hang. Now when she is looking for a project, I direct her to making another ornament: a jack o’lantern or spider or bat, perhaps. She has a goal, I don’t have to find a place for the random artwork (at least until after Halloween) and we have fabulous keepsakes from this year. I’d call that a win-win-win.

Health and Happiness,