We have a White Oak tree in our backyard that produces hundreds, thousands, millions of acorns.  They produce huge quantities every year but every other year it is a MASSIVE amount.

We have always tried to find things to do with them.  We found these cool ideas a few years ago before we even lived here and decided to ‘revisit’ them this week.

The first craft requires:

• acorn caps
• Markers in bright colors
• Elmer’s glue

Color the inside of each cap with colored markers. The amount of marker you use, will determine the shade the capís inside will become. We like the bright colors and those seemed to turn out best.  After coloring inside the cap squirt the glue in all the way to the top while the marker is still ‘wet’. Allow the caps to dry overnight.  Keilee wants to use some of these in her fairy houses.  She thinks the fairies will LOVE them and I agree, don’t you?

The next thing we did was make ‘acorn people’.  Actually the first time we did this Keilee made them all orange and pumpkin like.  This year she decided to bling them.

You will need:

• Acorns with caps
• Paint/paintbrushes
• Markers
• Glitter

Just use your imagination!  We painted them first and even spray painted a couple with silver chrome paint.  Keilee had more paint on her than on the acorns but she always paints that way.  We had a blast doing this although Keilee did 99% of it and I just took a few pictures.

They turned out very cute and we had such fun doing them.

She also decided to paint a leaf and make a leaf print.† It was beautiful too.  Our leaves haven’t turned yet so she decided to ‘turn’ them herself.

We had a great time doing these.  We got to be outside together on a beautiful cool fall day, laugh and create and talk for hours.  We live very close to the high school and we can hear the bells ringing changing classes.  We felt very lucky to be at home doing something fun together instead of Keilee being in school all day.  We are so blessed.

Homeschooling Rocks,
Karen

“From little acorns mighty oaks do grow” ~American Proverb

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