Tonight for Family Home Evening we decided to take a drive up the canyon and look at the leaves. Last year we went up too late, and everything was dead, so this year when I heard that it's supposed to get cold on Wednesday, I decided that we'd better hurry and go look at the leaves if we were going to. And I was really glad we did.
We drove up Provo Canyon and then took the Squaw Peak turn off and drove all the way up there. In the valley the leaves haven't started changing yet, and I had my doubts about how much they'd be changed in the mountains, but I didn't need to worry. There were beautiful colors everywhere.
Ivan slept through most of the drive, but Lincoln had a good time. I told him to look for the color red out the window. He did a really good job pointing out red. He's so smart. He also really liked saying "Go up hill." and "Dribe (drive) down hill." I think it's funny that he can tell whether we are going up or down.
At the top of the mountain I got out and collected a bunch of leaves of all the different colors. When we got home, Aaron helped Lincoln glue them all to a paper to make a pretty collage, while I made dinner.
It was Linc's first experience with glue, and he really enjoyed it. Haha. He also liked "push. down. hard." (pushing down hard), on the "leabes" so that they would stick to the paper.
I am so proud of his little art project. I hung it on the wall in the kitchen so that Lincoln can see it from his booster seat. He's pretty proud of it too, and that makes me happy. What are some other fun Fall art projects that a two year old could handle?
3 comments:
Last year I got some finger paints and let Stockton paint on a pumpkin. He loved it. It was kind of messy though, but really fun. I love your leaf collage. Great idea.
What a fun evening! Last time we tried to drive up Squaw Peak the road was closed, I'm glad to hear it's reopened. Love the collage! You could also try leaf rubbings, I think Audrey did that at Linc's age.
You guys are too fun! My kids favorite activity this time of year is jumping in the leaves. The leaves aren't falling yet but they're already dreaming about how big a pile they will be able to make.
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