Our Oct./November trip to Arkasouri was mainly for the "fall" experience with our children and grandchildren in the area. So Grandmother remembered how much fun it had been, when my children were little and we were living in Indiana, to collect colorful leaves and press them (with a warm iron) in waxed paper. One day, Margaret Anne ("Margolet", to Savannah), Rachel, and Savannah climbed on the Polaris for a trip down the drive and into the woods to find trees with leaves still hanging on.
Margaret, Rachel, and Savannah can hardly wait to get started.
Mary, our faithful chauffeur, drives hither and yon, wherever lovely foliage presents itself.
Rachel and Margaret find some special specimens.
Organizing our finds for a beautiful nature picture to display.
Margaret Anne's creativity.
Rachel's display.
Savannah's collection.
We taped them to an outside door -- what brilliant fall colors!
Using a flash shows more of the sweet little ladies who made the displays! What a wonderful morning's activities for Grandmother! Thank you, Lord, for sweet, memory-making times like this!
Margaret, Rachel, and Savannah can hardly wait to get started.Mary, our faithful chauffeur, drives hither and yon, wherever lovely foliage presents itself.
Rachel and Margaret find some special specimens.
Organizing our finds for a beautiful nature picture to display.
Margaret Anne's creativity.
Rachel's display.
Savannah's collection.
We taped them to an outside door -- what brilliant fall colors!
Using a flash shows more of the sweet little ladies who made the displays! What a wonderful morning's activities for Grandmother! Thank you, Lord, for sweet, memory-making times like this! 
7 comments:
Oh, what fun!! Another special time with grandmother. Those precious girls will always remember those special memories with grandmother and granddaddy.
What a blessing you are to them.
Love y'all,
Tina
Rachel absolutely loved her craft, and she proudly hung it over the window at home!
Thank you, Grandmother, for making such a wonderful memoriy!
Love,
Katie
Those colors are so beautiful in the sun!
How fun!
Love,
Molly
What a wonderful project! (Grandmother's are so much fun!)
Kelly
Once you press them, do they stay in place on the wax paper? Can you believe I've never heard of or done this project before? It sounds like a great idea and the results of the children were lovely.
Elisabeth
Thank you all for the sweet comments! Yes, Elisabeth, they do stay together, unless some over-enthusiastic little person tries to cram too many leaves into one "picture"! Then the wax just gives up trying to hold the whole thing together!
Since we are planning, the Lord willing, to go back up to "Arkasouri" for Christmas (the whole family together for the first time in years!), I plan to gather all the makings together for another project. This time, it will be stained-glass windows, with crayon bits framed and pressed between waxed paper.
We loved these easy, inexpensive crafts when my children were little, and it has been a fun time renewing those memories by teaching them to the grandchildren!
Bonnie
Oh, those were such sweet pictures. I DO remember pressing leaves in the Indiana Fall. You're such a good grandmother!
Love you!
Beth
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