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DIY instructions for glittery leaf crowns, the perfect craft for fall or Thanksgiving. Includes colorful leaf print that can be cut and glued.

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There's nothing but leaves in this leaves sensory bin. No other icons of autumn, so it pairs perfectly with picture books about leaves and changing colors.

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ALL NATURAL LEAF THREADING ACTIVITY - engage with Nature, get creative and develop fine motor skills. Fun!

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How to Make a Fall Leaf Family: Simple Leaf Craft for Kids

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Are you looking for a simple fall craft to do with your preschoolers? This Fall Leaf Family is a simple leaf craft you can with with tots and preschoolers.

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5 AUTUMN LEAF ACTIVITIES FOR PRESCHOOLERS

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Use those colorful leaves the kids love to collect for one or all of these fun and educational autumn leaf activities. Fake leaves work well, too!

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This leaf walk watercolor art activity is the perfect combination of outdoor play and art! Such a fun activity!

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These fun leaf activities for kids include plenty of fall leaf crafts, leaf art projects, and fall activities kids can try with parents!

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Get your OshKosh kid in the Fall spirit with this kid-friendly craft.

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44 Fun Fall Crafts to Make With Your Kids

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We love Autumn, we really do and have expressed it beautifully with our latest Autumn Tree Craft - The Fingerprint Heart Autumn Tree!

So if you love Autumn as much as we do, then this is the craft for you and your Arty Crafty Kids!

While simple in method, this project is perfect for colour-mixing and kids' will love recreating the colours that come with the seasonal change in their art.

Fingerprint Heart Autumn Tree: Materials

White Cardstock for Printing
Paint - Create Autumn Shades
Brown Paper
PVA Glue
Paintbrush
Scissors

Our Free Tree Heart Printable. This could be found towards the end of this post.

Fingerprint Heart Autumn Tree: Tutorial

Step 1: Download and print the heart template - this can be found towards the end of this post.

Prepare the paint, with either ready-made shades of oranges, red and yellow or offer your Arty Crafty Kids the primary colours with black and white for colour mixing.

While they're colour-mixing, ask questions:

How much Red and Yellow do you need to make Orange?

How do you make different tones of Orange (Yellow, Red, Green)?

How do you make Brown?

This simple process of trial and error is a fabulous learning exercise, with an emphasis on problem-solving skills and mathematical thinking (mixing and mentally measuring colours to achieve the desired tone).

And of course, it's wonderful for creativity!

Feel free to refer to our colour chart for reference:

For best results, add a thin layer of paint to the fingerprint and print.

Step 3: Using the darkest Autumn shades, work from the bottom of the heart up, layering the colours as your Arty Crafty Kids progress.

Step 4. Continue working with the heart shape, progressing with lighter shades as your Arty Crafty Kids reach the top.

The layering of colours will create some interesting and beautiful tones.

Step 5: Leave the heart to thoroughly dry!

Step 6: Transforming the fingerprint hearts into an Autumn Tree!

Using brown paper, trace around your child's arm and hand. Depending on the age of your Arty Crafty Kid, they may want to do this for themselves.

Cut out the arm/hand trunk and secure to the cardstock, positioning the hand within the fingerprint heart.

The Fingerprint Heart

Autumn Tree is now complete!

To access the template, sign up to our Arty Crafty Kids Club newsletter, and we'll also keep you posted about other crafts, free templates and offers for the Arty Crafty Box!

This template and many others are also available in our Arty Crafty Kids Club Members Area Free 10-Day Trial - Sign Up Here

For more Arty Crafty Autumn inspiration, take a look at a few of our popular posts!
Autumn Handprint Tree Autumn Bubble Wrap Tree Accordion Leaf Autumn Tree Pin for Later! "We help parents unplug their kids from modern technology and spend quality time engaging in fun art and craft projects!"
We bring the fun by making it easy to engage kids in arts and crafts with unique and fun ideas, easy to do projects, online printable templates and the Arty Crafty Box with all the materials delivered to your door!

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Fingerprint Heart Autumn Tree - Arty Crafty Kids

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We love Autumn, we really do and have expressed it beautifully with our latest Autumn Tree Craft - The Fingerprint Heart Autumn Tree! So if you love Autumn as much as we do, then this is the craft for you and your Arty Crafty Kids!

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What does the fox say?!?
I've noticed that this time of year, foxes seem to make their appearance more and more with the winter season - so that's exactly what inspired our latest kid craft post {it also may have started with a fun cookie jar from World Market....}

So without further ado - make some friendly woodland creatures with just a few simple supplies and creative spirit! Easily add some ribbon to the back of these Popsicle Stick Foxes for instant Christmas ornaments or add some magnets to display them proudly on the fridge. Whatever you do - I sure hope we inspire you! Happy crafting my " foxy " friends!!!

* 3 per fox Jumbo Popsicle Sticks { affiliate link}
* School Glue
* Orange Cardstock
* Orange Decorative Scrapbook Paper
* Orange Craft Paint
* Paint Brushes
* Small Wiggle Eyes
* Brown Pom Poms { affiliate link}
* Scissors

* First grab three popsicle sticks {three per fox} and glue them together to look like a triangle. Set aside to let it dry completely. Repeat.
* While those are drying, grab your orange scrapbook paper and cut a triangular shape that will be placed within the popsicle stick design and be the face of the fox. At this time, you should also cut out two smaller triangles out of the orange cardstock for the fox's ears.
* To finish off thePopsicle Stick Fox - have children paint their popsicle stick design completely orange , as well as gluing the paper pieces and eyes/nose in place. Once done, set aside to let it dry completely before displaying proudly!

As an added bonus for today's blog post - here is another fox themed kid craft! All we did was take some decorative plastic leaves { affiliate link} and added some fox features to give them life! Super easy and perfect for little ones to craft up!!!

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What does the fox say?!? I've noticed that this time of year, foxes seem to make their appearance more and more with the winter season - so that's exactly what inspired our latest kid craft post {it also may have started with a fun cookie jar from World Market....} So without further ado - make some friendly woodland creatures with just a few simple supplies and creative spirit!

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Welcome to Teacher's Pet your one stop shop for all of the very best in classroom resources including, posters, labels, games, activities, challenge cards, bunting and so, so much more!

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It was another beautiful weekend and we had a ton of outdoor fun. While sitting out on the grass, I was struck by this beautiful shadow that was cast on one of the rocks. I quick ran inside & grabbed some paints and was going to capture the shadow on the rock with some paint. We explored shadows and art last month and I thought this would be a beautiful project to do. Alas, the sun disappeared and did not come back and I lost my lovely shadow.

It did however inspire a different project with leaves and rocks. I could not paint my shadow, but I could still capture the beauty of a leaf on a rock.

We tried using a fern for a nature resist painted rock. This was a little tricky because the fern moved around a bunch.

So instead, we tried painting the leaves and then pressing them onto the rocks.

We used acrylic paint for ours. If the paint is too thick it does not have a nice effect, so make sure the paint isn't old and clumpy.

Applying a thin layer of paint works best or it might squeeze out the sides.

Press firmly with your fingers around the whole leaf.

After testing out a few, I found that painting the back of the leaf creates better imprints. Remove your leaf slowly and check underneath to see if the paint transferred over enough If it has not, slowly lower it back down and press on the bare spots. Let the paint dry and then add a sealant if you choose to keep in the paint.

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Nature Printed Rocks - The Pinterested Parent

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It was another beautiful weekend and we had a ton of outdoor fun. While sitting out on the grass, I was struck by this beautiful shadow that was cast on one of the rocks. I quick ran inside & grabbed some paints and was going to capture the shadow on the rock with some paint.

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Here is a new twist on Q-tip painting with amazing results. This Q-tip fall tree painting is a great idea for toddler to adults.

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I just can't get enough of fall trees. I think it is the beautiful colors that draw me in and delight me. Autumn trees are one of my favorite painting subjects because of those gorgeous vibrant colors and because they are just plain fun to paint. While we love the paint brush, it is always fun to experiment with different tools & methods.

Last night, we had an idea to make a Q-tip tree, but since the swabs are so small & it can sometimes get tedious for my little girl, I tried bundling them to cover more area. I think the result was fabulous.

What you will need:

Canvas or Watercolor Paper
Acrylic Paint
Q-Tips

Rubber Band

Paint Brush

Directions:
I painted two canvases with a simple bare tree on them.

I grabbed a handful of Q-tips & bundled them together with a rubber band.

We squeezed acrylic paints in yellow, orange, red, brown, gold & green into an old paper bowl. We dipped our bundled Q-tips into the different colors & pressed the bundle onto our canvas & all around the tree's branches.

Here are our finished projects. The technique looked different between the two canvases.

My daughter's leaves came out more bold & vibrant by using more paint on her Q-tips & mine created softer more textured leaves using a lighter amount of paint on the tips. The results were very different, but both came out lovely.

If you enjoyed this, then you might also like these beautiful bubble wrap painted fall trees or these lovely clay leaf bowls from Red Ted Art.

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Bundled Q-Tip Autumn Tree - The Pinterested Parent

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