Fall in Love with Fall – Pumpkin Pie Spice Paint

During our stint in the US, I grew quite fond of the autumn or the fall season. Autumn meant it was time for us to go on a romantic vacation to a fall-colors destination like Door County or the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It meant the orange-red fall leaves that make it seem as the whole maple tree is on fire. It also meant spending hours finalizing a pattern for pumpkin carving and making my homemade pumpkin spice. That whole aroma of pumpkin and cinnamon cooking together, there was nothing that could better warm the evenings that had started to get a little chilly at that time of the year.

maple leaves in fall

pumpkin patch

working on an apple cider mill

our Jack O’ Lantern

Washington Island at Door County, Wisconsin

Little B and I are learning about seasons and I thought it would be a good idea to do some activities that can bring some of these elements of autumn/fall together.

Here’s the first one. So let’s go, let’s fall in love with fall –

Pumpkin Pie Spice Paint

What You will Need

Pumpkin pie spices – powdered cinnamon, nutmeg and clove

Poster colors in fall colors red, yellow and brown

Painting essentials like palette/plate and brush

How to Go About It

I let Little B explored the spices. She smelled them, tasted them and felt them in her hands. Little B is almost 5 now so I don’t have to worry about her rubbing the spices in her eyes or anything like that. However, if you are working with younger kids, I would recommend using your own judgement here.

We paired up each spice with a poster color. We selected cinnamon for brown, nutmeg for yellow and clove for red.

I wanted to make sure that each color smelled the spice powder it is mixed with. Therefore, we added a generous amount of spice powder in the color – about ½-1 teaspoon of spice powder in 1 tablespoon of paint.

As we mixed the spices with their respective paints, we had on our hands incredibly-nice smelling pumpkin pie spice paint.

We decided to use these paints for another activity dedicated to autumn – Autumn Nature Lover Crown. It will be coming on the blog pretty soon – keep reading!