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Thankful Tree Centerpiece

in Holidays, Let's Party on November 22, 2018

“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.”

– Cicero

Happy Thanksgiving!ย First and foremost, we would like to wish you and your family a fantastic day filled with laughter, love, and a truly delicious meal. When we sit down to eat our Thanksgiving dinner, we like to go around the table and have everyone share one thing that they are thankful for that day. In all honesty, we try to do this at dinnertime every night. It’s a great way to share all of the little things that inspire gratitude. And teaching our daughter to be grateful…to find the joy in every single day…is extremely important to us. In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday, we like to find special ways to showcase our gratitude during the month of November. Last year, we crafted an adorableย Thankful Turkey Centerpiece. And this year, we’ve put together a Thankful Tree Centerpiece!

Thankful Tree Centerpiece ยฉ Capturing Parenthood

Every night when we sit down for dinner, we write one thing that we are grateful for, on a fall-colored leaf. We then pin our leaves to the branches of our tree…filling our tree with more color and gratitude as each day passes. We are thankful for our family, warm pajamas, our beautiful home, family movie days, the opportunity to help others, sledding in the snow…and so much more. Sharing all of the joyful moments in our day is always such a wonderful, heart-warming way to spend mealtime as a family.


Thankful Tree Centerpiece

Supplies:

Thankful Tree Centerpiece ยฉ Capturing Parenthood

  • Glass Vase
  • Artificial Twig/Tree Branches (We found ours in the floral department at Hobby Lobby)
  • Vase-Filler (We used small glittery, harvest-colored balls that we also picked up at Hobby Lobby)
  • Construction Paper or Card Stock (Red, Orange, and Yellow)
  • Scissors
  • Marker or Pen
  • Mini Clothes Pins (You could also hang the leaves with ribbon, if so desired)

Instructions:

Thankful Tree Centerpiece ยฉ Capturing Parenthood

  1. Start by cutting your artificial tree branches the appropriate size to fit in your glass vase. If the branches are thick, a standard pair of scissors might not do the trick. We used a pair of wire-cutters (an X-ACTO knife should also work).
  2. Place the branches into the center of your glass vase. We twisted our two main branches together along the bottom, to form a trunk and make the branches a bit sturdier.
  3. Once you have the branches in the vase, fill the remaining space with filler. You can use all sorts of things as vase-filler…the main goal is to hide the twisted portion of the branches, as well as provide the necessary support for the tree to stand upright on its own.
  4. Now that your bare tree is complete, it’s time to craft some leaves! Cut your leaves from the various colors of construction paper or card stock. We like to fold our paper so that we get more than one leaf with each cut.
  5. Store your colorful leaves (along with a marker or pen) and a handful of mini clothes pins, near your thankful tree.
  6. Each night when your family sits down for dinner, have everyone write down one thing that they are thankful for that day. Pin the leaves to the tree. And before you know it, your tree will be brimming with color and character…and a whole lot of gratitude!

As you come together with friends and family today, may you find an abundance of joy and gratitude.

Thankful Tree Centerpiece ยฉ Capturing Parenthood

“If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.”

– Steve Maraboli

How does your family like to showcase thankfulness during the month of November? We would love to hear all of your wonderful ideas in the comments below.

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...
We followed Kaitlyn's extremely helpful Haunted House Drawing Guide (you can find it over on her Teachers Pay Teachers account) and completed the project over the course of 3 lessons.
...
During our first lesson, we sketched our houses in pencil, and added some eerie exterior landscaping. ๐Ÿชฆ๐Ÿฆ‡
We popped in a few spooky characters (ghosts, spiders, pumpkins, and a vampire). ๐Ÿ‘ป๐Ÿ•ท๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿง›
And then we traced over our pencil lines with black Sharpie.
...
During our next lesson, we used a coloring technique that we learned from Kristian @friendsartlab โค๏ธ We colored our pictures with oil pastels...and then painted over the top of the oil pastels with baby oil...it causes the oil pastels to bleed and blend together! ๐Ÿคฉ
...
During our final lesson...we added more spooky characters to the inside of our house...that can peek out behind the doors and windows. ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿง™โ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ‘ป
To do this...I used an X-acto knife and carefully cut around the outside edges of the doors/windows (leaving the hinge sides intact so that they could fold open and closed).
We placed yellow construction paper in the background...and added witches, ghosts, skeletons, a mummy, and a Frankenstein! ๐Ÿ˜
This step made our haunted houses really come to life...and we just can't thank Kaitlyn @artwithmrs.e enough for sharing this awesome lesson and drawing guide! THE ABSOLUTE BEST! โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
...
It was very evident how much our daughter loved this project...as we worked through each step...but the thing that solidified just how much she enjoyed it was - one weekend morning I walked downstairs to find her and her dad sitting at the table - and she was very excitedly teaching him how to draw his own haunted house - while she drew a few more herself (scroll to the last picture in the carousel)! ๐Ÿฅฐ
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That's right...first-time pumpkin-growers over here...and it was all actually a bit of a surprise. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
...
You see, when we went to prep our garden beds this spring, we noticed a plant that had already started growing. We assumed it was a cucumber plant, since it was in the same place we had cucumbers last year.
We left it alone and planted a couple of other cucumber plants nearby. ๐Ÿฅ’
At first, the leaves on our mystery plant looked very similar to the leaves on our other cucumber plants.
But a couple of weeks later the plant had grown A LOT bigger. It was now obvious that it was not a cucumber plant. But what was it? ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ
...
And that's when it suddenly dawned on these exhausted parents, that our daughter had spontaneously tossed seeds from her pumpkin (last Halloween), into the garden bed. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ The mystery was finally solved...and by the looks of the large golden flowers that were emerging all over the vines...we figured we might have a few pumpkins come fall! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿ™Œ
...
It was so much fun to watch the pumpkin plant grow! ๐Ÿคฉ We had to cut down the wire on one side of our garden bed to let the vines out...and they ended up growing 6-10 feet long in both directions! ๐Ÿ˜ณ It was crazy!
They put out the most gorgeous flowers...that the bees absolutely loved! ๐Ÿงก And soon enough, we spotted a few round gourds growing at the base of some of the flowers. They grew quickly...and then turned a beautiful shade of orange! ๐Ÿ˜
...
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โ€ฆ
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โ€ฆ
We popped it out onto a tray, grabbed a shaker of salt, a bottle of warm water (colored red for added effect), and some tongs.
And then it was time to Free the Frankensteins (our daughter coined the phrase)! ๐Ÿ˜‰
โ€ฆ
This spooky activity provides chilly sensory play, motor skills practice, and scientific exploration (salt and warm water speed-up the melting process)! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ™Œ
As an added bonusโ€ฆyou also get some color-mixing! And the addition of the salt makes it extra sparkly too! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿ˜
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Eventually, all youโ€™re left with is some mini erasers floating in a pool of colorful waterโ€ฆand a happy kid! โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
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...
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...
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...
Once we had our pumpkins...we decided to change things up a bit, and grabbed our stash of googly eyes. ๐Ÿ‘€ (Most of) our fall pumpkins then transformed into Halloween jack-o-lanterns! ๐ŸŽƒ
We pressed the googly eyes into the clay, and we used a few small tools (that came with our box of air-dry clay) to add their mouths. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
...
And now we have a cute and colorful crew of clay pumpkins adorning our mantle! ๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿงก๐ŸŽƒ
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...
This colorful project ended up being a lot of fun, and also very relaxing...as we all quietly focused, and zoned in on adding the color patterns around all of our letters. It was actually a bit hypnotizing! ๐Ÿคฉ
...
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...
I love the idea of doing a self-portrait project at the beginning of the year, and then again at the end of the year...so that we can see how much we've grown and changed.
...
We used Kaitlyn's @artwithmrs.e Simple Self-Portrait Drawing Guide and it was so incredibly helpful (especially for this new homeschool teacher who wouldn't necessarily list drawing as one of her stronger suits). ๐Ÿ˜‰
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...
We looked through the self-portrait drawing guide to get different ideas for our eyes, nose, mouth, and hair. ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘ƒ๐Ÿ‘„
...
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She was used to drawing pictures of herself with her long, blonde locks...and her new hairstyle proved rather difficult. But she persevered, and ended up with a self-portrait that she was truly proud of! ๐Ÿฅฐ
...
When we were finished drawing our likenesses, we decided to cut them out and create a special background to glue them onto. I went with random black and white designs...and our nugget decided to draw various things that she loves (her family, winter, candy, books, dolphins...and more)! โค๏ธ
...
It was such a fun project...and I can't wait to see what our self-portraits look like at the end of our school year! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
...
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Ok...@artwithmrs.e Haunted House project is hands- Ok...@artwithmrs.e Haunted House project is hands-down the best Halloween-themed art project out there! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ™Œ
We had a blast creating haunted houses for homeschool art this month! ๐Ÿงก
...
We followed Kaitlyn's extremely helpful Haunted House Drawing Guide (you can find it over on her Teachers Pay Teachers account) and completed the project over the course of 3 lessons.
...
During our first lesson, we sketched our houses in pencil, and added some eerie exterior landscaping. ๐Ÿชฆ๐Ÿฆ‡
We popped in a few spooky characters (ghosts, spiders, pumpkins, and a vampire). ๐Ÿ‘ป๐Ÿ•ท๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿง›
And then we traced over our pencil lines with black Sharpie.
...
During our next lesson, we used a coloring technique that we learned from Kristian @friendsartlab โค๏ธ We colored our pictures with oil pastels...and then painted over the top of the oil pastels with baby oil...it causes the oil pastels to bleed and blend together! ๐Ÿคฉ
...
During our final lesson...we added more spooky characters to the inside of our house...that can peek out behind the doors and windows. ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿง™โ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ‘ป
To do this...I used an X-acto knife and carefully cut around the outside edges of the doors/windows (leaving the hinge sides intact so that they could fold open and closed).
We placed yellow construction paper in the background...and added witches, ghosts, skeletons, a mummy, and a Frankenstein! ๐Ÿ˜
This step made our haunted houses really come to life...and we just can't thank Kaitlyn @artwithmrs.e enough for sharing this awesome lesson and drawing guide! THE ABSOLUTE BEST! โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
...
It was very evident how much our daughter loved this project...as we worked through each step...but the thing that solidified just how much she enjoyed it was - one weekend morning I walked downstairs to find her and her dad sitting at the table - and she was very excitedly teaching him how to draw his own haunted house - while she drew a few more herself (scroll to the last picture in the carousel)! ๐Ÿฅฐ
...
#hauntedhouse #hauntedhouses #hauntedhousedrawing #directeddrawing #spookyart #halloween #happyhalloween #halloweenart #halloweenfun #elementaryart #homeschoolart #homeschool #homeschoolfun #capturingparenthood
I decided that these six little pumpkins needed a I decided that these six little pumpkins needed a permanent place on our feed...because WE GREW THEM OURSELVES!!! ๐ŸŽƒ
That's right...first-time pumpkin-growers over here...and it was all actually a bit of a surprise. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
...
You see, when we went to prep our garden beds this spring, we noticed a plant that had already started growing. We assumed it was a cucumber plant, since it was in the same place we had cucumbers last year.
We left it alone and planted a couple of other cucumber plants nearby. ๐Ÿฅ’
At first, the leaves on our mystery plant looked very similar to the leaves on our other cucumber plants.
But a couple of weeks later the plant had grown A LOT bigger. It was now obvious that it was not a cucumber plant. But what was it? ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ
...
And that's when it suddenly dawned on these exhausted parents, that our daughter had spontaneously tossed seeds from her pumpkin (last Halloween), into the garden bed. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ The mystery was finally solved...and by the looks of the large golden flowers that were emerging all over the vines...we figured we might have a few pumpkins come fall! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿ™Œ
...
It was so much fun to watch the pumpkin plant grow! ๐Ÿคฉ We had to cut down the wire on one side of our garden bed to let the vines out...and they ended up growing 6-10 feet long in both directions! ๐Ÿ˜ณ It was crazy!
They put out the most gorgeous flowers...that the bees absolutely loved! ๐Ÿงก And soon enough, we spotted a few round gourds growing at the base of some of the flowers. They grew quickly...and then turned a beautiful shade of orange! ๐Ÿ˜
...
Needless to say, we are now officially pumpkin-growing people! ๐Ÿ˜‚ My husband can't wait to plant more next year...and he's already looking in to different varieties - hoping to grow some larger jack-o-lantern style ones next season! ๐ŸŽƒ
โ€ฆ
#pumpkins #growingpumpkins #ourpumpkinpatch #homegrownpumpkins #homegrown #homegarden #pumpkingrowing #gardening #fallharvest #happyhalloween #timetocarvesomepumpkins #gardensurprises #gardenfun #capturingparenthood
Free the Frankensteins from the Frozen Rainbow Bra Free the Frankensteins from the Frozen Rainbow Brain! ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿง 
โ€ฆ
Yesterday, we shared how we made this colorful, frozen rainbow brain - full of Frankenstein mini erasersโ€ฆand today we wanted to show you what became of our beautiful brain! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
โ€ฆ
We popped it out onto a tray, grabbed a shaker of salt, a bottle of warm water (colored red for added effect), and some tongs.
And then it was time to Free the Frankensteins (our daughter coined the phrase)! ๐Ÿ˜‰
โ€ฆ
This spooky activity provides chilly sensory play, motor skills practice, and scientific exploration (salt and warm water speed-up the melting process)! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ™Œ
As an added bonusโ€ฆyou also get some color-mixing! And the addition of the salt makes it extra sparkly too! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿ˜
โ€ฆ
Eventually, all youโ€™re left with is some mini erasers floating in a pool of colorful waterโ€ฆand a happy kid! โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
โ€ฆ
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We are definitely getting into the fall and Hallow We are definitely getting into the fall and Halloween spirit...so during a recent homeschool art session, we decided to make some air-dry clay pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns! ๐ŸŽƒ๐ŸŽƒ๐ŸŽƒ
...
Back in 2019, Lauralee @2art.chambers shared several colorful, air-dry clay pumpkins that her students made...and after rediscovering the saved post, I decided that it would be a perfect October art lesson for us too! ๐Ÿงก
...
We used various colors of air-dry clay, and rolled each color into whatever pumpkin shape we wanted...and then we added our lines/indentations using the side of a credit card. ๐Ÿ’ณ The stems are just small, broken pieces of old crayons (another genius idea from Lauralee). ๐Ÿ– And we topped our stems with pieces of pipe cleaner, to create the little curly cues. ๐Ÿ˜
...
Once we had our pumpkins...we decided to change things up a bit, and grabbed our stash of googly eyes. ๐Ÿ‘€ (Most of) our fall pumpkins then transformed into Halloween jack-o-lanterns! ๐ŸŽƒ
We pressed the googly eyes into the clay, and we used a few small tools (that came with our box of air-dry clay) to add their mouths. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
...
And now we have a cute and colorful crew of clay pumpkins adorning our mantle! ๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿงก๐ŸŽƒ
...
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Andrew from @elementaryarts shared a patterned, bl Andrew from @elementaryarts shared a patterned, block letter name project a couple of weeks ago (I'll share the post in stories today), and I immediately added it to our list of art projects to do this year! ๐Ÿ˜
But we decided to switch things up a little bit! Instead of using our names, we each picked a color that we like...wrote the name of the color in block letters on our paper...and created our color patterns using at least two different shades of our chosen color. ๐Ÿ–
...
This colorful project ended up being a lot of fun, and also very relaxing...as we all quietly focused, and zoned in on adding the color patterns around all of our letters. It was actually a bit hypnotizing! ๐Ÿคฉ
...
Needless to say, we are really happy with the way our block letter color project turned out! ๐Ÿ™Œ We even had a special guest who wanted to join in on this art project! โค๏ธ
...
P.S. We also used Andrewโ€™s free TPT handout on how to make block letters! The bundle includes bubble letters, cursive letters, graffiti letters, and more! ๐Ÿ‘
โ€ฆ
#blockletters #blocklettering #colors #color #colorful #artproject #artforkids #kidart #elementaryart #artactivity #artactivities #artactivitiesforkids #colorfun #homeschool #homeschoolart #homeschoolfun #capturingparenthood
We created self-portraits for our first art projec We created self-portraits for our first art project of our homeschool year...and we are pretty obsessed with them! ๐Ÿคฉโœ๏ธ๐Ÿคฉ
...
I love the idea of doing a self-portrait project at the beginning of the year, and then again at the end of the year...so that we can see how much we've grown and changed.
...
We used Kaitlyn's @artwithmrs.e Simple Self-Portrait Drawing Guide and it was so incredibly helpful (especially for this new homeschool teacher who wouldn't necessarily list drawing as one of her stronger suits). ๐Ÿ˜‰
We actually purchased her entire Guided Drawing Bundle (over on Teachers Pay Teachers) and we highly recommend it! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ™Œ
...
We looked through the self-portrait drawing guide to get different ideas for our eyes, nose, mouth, and hair. ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘ƒ๐Ÿ‘„
...
Now...if you caught our stories earlier this week, you know that our daughter recently made a pretty big change to her hair (that included a partial side-shave and bob-length cut - she also dyed it blue). ๐Ÿ’‡โ€โ™€๏ธ
She was used to drawing pictures of herself with her long, blonde locks...and her new hairstyle proved rather difficult. But she persevered, and ended up with a self-portrait that she was truly proud of! ๐Ÿฅฐ
...
When we were finished drawing our likenesses, we decided to cut them out and create a special background to glue them onto. I went with random black and white designs...and our nugget decided to draw various things that she loves (her family, winter, candy, books, dolphins...and more)! โค๏ธ
...
It was such a fun project...and I can't wait to see what our self-portraits look like at the end of our school year! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ
...
#selfportrait #selfportraits #homeschool #homeschoolart #elementaryart #artactivities #artactivitiesforkids #artforkids #kidart #homeschoolfun #capturingparenthood
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