So far we are 0 for 2 on fall art 
? projects…. The leaf rubbings a couple months ago were a fail. K had no interest at all and I ended up doing leaf rubbings by myself. So this time we tried painting leaves. I found these really cool huge leaves on one of the lawns across the street and was so excited because I thought they would be perfect to paint! (Did I mention then they sat on the counter for a week while I tried to find a good day for this amazing art project? Because they did. Okay 2 weeks 
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“Wow leaf art?!” Success!
So I packed up all of our paint stuff and hauled it to the bluff. When I took it out with the leaves K looked super excited! “Wow leaf art?!” Success! Maybe cooking around a pile of leaves for 2 weeks was worth it! (I would have just put them elsewhere but I kept telling myself “Maybe we will do our leaf art tomorrow! Might as well leave it out right?!”…. Did I just miss my opportunity to say “leaf it out”? I meant leaf it out.) ANYWAYS. K was super excited and got her paint brush ? and promptly mixed all the colors on the plate into one color (of course), which came out as a weird pale purple somehow.
Then she turned to me and said “I’m done. Let’s go home now.” And that was that.
She painted her new color all over one single leaf, and then turned to me and said “I’m done. Let’s go home now.” And that was that. So I packed the wet paint brushes into a baggie I brought, put the plate into another baggie, wrapped the one leaf she painted (along with 2 I painted, no big deal) in foil to transport so they wouldn’t smear before we could dry them at home, packed up our blanket, put Isabelle back in the carrier, and we went home 15 minutes after we arrived. Then we got home and K proudly showed Jason her single all-colors leaf and said “I MADE ART.” Not sure if this is a#pinterestfail or #pinterestwin …