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I have seen many of these around the blogosphere and pinterest. I figured that this could be another Thanksgiving craft that I could pull together with what I already had on hand.

All I needed was:

some sticks
brown spray paint
glass container
white beans
brown lunch bags
embroidery floss
thread

First, I raided our yard for some sticks/branches.

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Then I spray painted them (I know you are starting to ask yourselves, "what doesn't she spray-paint...the answer not much). This took a couple of coats. I know it is ironic that I painted branches brown, but I wanted them darker than their natural color.

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Next I found some brown lunch sacks. I cut them up so that I could have "paper" to trace and cut leaves out of.

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I googled leaf templates. Found two leaves that I liked and I printed them off and then cut them out. I traced them onto the sheets of brown lunch sacks. I could fit 2 per sheet.

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Before I cut them out, I stitched round my tracing lines with brown thread and my sewing machine. I then erased the pencil tracing marks. Then I cut out the leaves and punched a hole in the top.

I threaded the hole with a piece of embroidery floss, then tied it to make a loop.

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Then I wrote down things our family was thankful for.

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After all our leaves were done, we hung them on the branches that I had placed in a glass container filled with white lima beans.

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Now we have a perfect little thankful tree to add to our house's Thanksgiving feel.

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone.