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Homemade Fall Place Mats
Approximate Time: 20 minutes or less
Glue a photo of your child to the construction paper. I glued ours to a piece of solid white paper first, so that it was matted and stood out a bit.
Let your child arrange the leaves on the construction paper in any manner they wish to do.
When they are arranged to their liking, use a dab of glue to hold each in place.
Carefully cover the entire sheet of construction paper with a piece of clear contact paper, pressing out any air bubbles.
Cover the backside with contact paper as well.
Trim the edges of the place mat with a scissors and then enjoy using it daily!
By Michele from East Bethel, MN
By mary (Guest Post)
11/13/2008
Thank you for this great idea! I did this project last week-end with my three granddaughters. They enjoyed doing this and the place mats turned out really nice.
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10/10/2008
What a lovely idea! This brings back memories of when I was a wee one in the late '50's/ early 60's of collecting leaves, sandwiching them between two pieces of wax paper, placing a towel over them on the ironing board and pressing them together with a hot iron :-) We would then use pinking shears to cut the edges and use as place mats :-) Thanks for bringing back this long forgotten memory :-)
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10/06/2008
My nieces did this for all the kids one year and it was such a nice touch to the holiday table.
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