Fall is a great time of year to make crafts with natural materials and this simple leaf art idea will bring out your child’s creativity.
While dried leaves are the best choice for this project because you can display and admire your child’s work for a long time, you can also do it with fresh leaves.
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If you’re planning some creative fall activities to do with your kids, make sure you include some that use natural craft materials – fall certainly brings an abundance of them. When it comes to those materials, we love making fall leaf crafts the most!
This particular craft allows you to be more creative because you can use any leaf and turn it into a fun looking leaf creature. You can even make a story book, add speech bubbles and write dialogue.
You can use fresh leaves and photograph the final result to create a story. Use different leaves for different scenes or use the same leaf and change the mouth to show different expressions. If this is the case, draw the mouth on paper and cut it out, not directly on the leaf.
There are many different characters and emotions you can express by drawing different mouths and hand positions.
Creating a background with different colors really makes the leaves stand out – you can also teach kids about complementary or contrasting colors.
There is no leaf that you can’t use for this project, different shapes give different personalities to your leaves.
The things you make from preserved dried leaves can be displayed on the wall.
How to make simple leaf art ideas
What you need:
- white cardboard (square or rectangular)
- glue
- Googly eyes
- black pencil
- round hole punching machine
- Watercolor of your choice (autumn colors)
- comb
- a small bunch of autumn leaves
Step by step instructions
Paint watercolors onto white cardboard and let dry.
Using round hole puncher…
… to round the corners as shown in the illustration.
Glue some leaves onto cardboard.
Draw a smiling mouth and hand on each leaf.
Attach two bulging eyes to each leaf.
Done!
We were excited to see how well these leafy friends grew.
Don’t they look so cute and happy?
We bet you love this simple leaf art idea and your leaf friends look amazing.
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