The leaves are changing and it is really and truly fall! I told you how excited Lydia is about all the leaves falling and I thought it would be cool to share this with our Compassion kids. I’m not sure of the foliage in Burkina Faso, but I know my family in California misses the trees in Georgia, so I thought our Compassion kids would enjoy having an autumn leaf from Georgia!
I was going to do the old wax paper and leaf thing…but honestly, a hot iron with my 3 year old? It just didn’t sound fun. And I didn’t know how long they would last. So, instead we grabbed our favorite leaves and took them to Office Max. They laminated them, we cut them out and tied them with a ribbon. I think it was only $1 per laminating sheet and he got all of them onto two sheets. So $2 is pretty good for a gift!
How pretty are they?! I like them so much I want to decorate our house with them! I can’t wait to send them to our kids and I’m pretty sure we’ll be laminating flowers in the spring!
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I love it! What a great idea! Our Compassion child in Brazil just left the program, and we got another one’s picture in the mail yesterday. We’ll have to do something fun like this for him!
I just put a laminator on my Christmas wish list today! I keep thinking of things to use it for, in making things with and for my kids. Create your own Memory game? check. Reusable writing practice sheets? check. And now…laminated leaves? check!!
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