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Sunflower Handprint Art 2 – Autumn/Fall Art Activities for Kids
Sunflowers are such a cheerful flower and what better way to celebrate the ending of summer and coming of autumn with a handprint art sunflower, a perfect craft for preschoolers We love sunflowers and last week we had a lot of fun making a giant sunflower with our handprints. Today we decided to use our favourite flowers as inspiration again for a craft activity. What we used: Pre-cut card handprints Paint PVA non toxic glue Glitter Paper Plate A2 White card Stapler and staples What we did: We painted each of the pre-cut handprints with autumnal colours, sprinkled them with a little red and gold glitter and left to dry…
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Sunflowers – Handprint Art for Kids
Sunflowers are one of my favourite flowers and each year we try to grow them. We haven’t been very successful this year but still managed these lovelies in the picture below. So using these cheerful, sunny flowers as inspiration we set about our most recent art activity – again this is quick and simple and suitable for all ages from 2.5yrs up. What we used: large sheet of paper/card poster paint paint/printing tray plate pencil paint brushes What we did: Doodles (5) placed a plate on the sheet and drew around it with a pencil to make the centre of our flower He then painted a long green stem and…
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Finger Print Autumn Trees – Fall Art Activities for Kids
This is another quick and easy autumn art activity perfect for younger kids, similar to our Autumn Tree Collages, but using finger painting this time instead of collage work. What we used: poster paints paint tray blue card paint brushes What we did: We each painted a tree trunk Using our fingers we printed lots and lots of different coloured autumn leaves all over the tree Doodles and Oodles both wanted to add apples and D showed apples falling from his tree. Still using our fingers we added grass to the paintings and dotted a leaf or two on the grass. We used gold paint for some of the leaves…
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Autumn Tree Collages – Fall Art Activities for Kids
This is a very simple yet lovely autumn collage activity, suitable for all ages and both Doodles(5) and Oodles (2.5) managed this with ease. What we used: coloured paper felt autumn leaves and scraps of felt PVA non toxic glue cotton wool What we did: I encouraged the children to tear a piece of green paper to create the grass or hill for the foreground of their picture. They then ripped brown paper (we used brown sugar paper for it’s texture) into strips to make the tree trunks Using the PVA glue they arranged the paper on the blue sheet to create their grass and tree and then added the…
