(I have no idea why my pictures have these gray areas at the bottom !)

There’s just something about fall crafts that I can’t resist! Even though the last 2.5 weeks have been hectic and stressful with fighting the flu, we’ve done more crafts than we’ve done in a while.

And these fall suncatchers are one of my favorite projects (of course, anything made with tissue paper squares is a winner in my book!).

To be honest , I did them on a whim one afternoon, so I kind of made it up as I went, which is why ours are a little wonky and uneven. It wasn’t until after we were done and I saw how cute they were that I took the time to actually make a template for them (and if I didn’t have a newborn and 4 sick kids, I would have made a template for you all to print out — sorry!).

But these are SO easy.

Materials:
:: Green, blue and brown construction paper
:: Wax paper
:: Tissue paper squares in fall colors
:: School glue
:: Foam brush
:: Scissors

Instructions
1. Take a piece of green construction paper and a piece of blue and cut both in half.

2. On the blue, cut out either a hand (for a turkey) or a large flower shape (for the top of the tree). The easiest way to do this is to cut straight up from the bottom to start, since your green “grass” will cover that cut anyway.

3. Take your green paper and cut it in half in a wave pattern, as if it were a small hill.

4. Cut out a trunk from brown construction paper if you’re making a tree.

5. Cut a piece of wax paper to fit behind the cutout. It should be larger than the cutout but smaller than the blue paper itself.

6. Spread glue on the wax paper and layer tissue paper on it. Spread another layer of glue on top. We use small foam craft brushes for this.

6. Glue the layers together.

7. Hang in the window and enjoy!