Seasonal Window Art- Cardstock cutouts with tissue paper

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Window cut outs.  Adapted from a craft idea in All Year Round.  These are cut out of cardstock, then tissue paper is glued on and they're placed in the window.  I used an X-acto knife over a self healing mat that I usually use for cutting quilt squares. I photocopied the shapes from the book, adapted them as I wanted, and cut over the photocopy onto the card stock, folded in half.

With the flash you can see the cardstock part.

One for us, one to share in May.

Roosters in our front window.

My friend Rachel reminded me of the importance of seasonal traditions. Then our kids grow up with a sense of belonging to the family; "Remember? We always did ___ in the spring" "We always had ___ for snack on snow days"  We're still establishing our own traditions here, I think that changing these cutouts in the windows will be a nice addition to our family traditions.

I'm loving this book, All Year Round, for beautiful simple traditions.  There are so many ideas for rhymes, art projects both for adults (this one I did during nap time because of the X-acto knife involved) and children, stories, and traditions.  They make it clear that it's better to only do a few simple ones and not burn out rather than try to do them all and feel frazzled.