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Hedgehogs – Leaf and Paper Collages – Autumn / Fall Preschool Craft
Hedgehogs always remind me of Autumn, and these collages are a lovely, simple preschool Fall activity to celebrate the season. We have a hedgehog who regularly helps himself to our cat’s food at night before hibernating for the winter, so my kiddies were delighted to create their own paper version of “Hedgy”, our little prickly buddy! We have lots of other autumn activities for you to try in our Seasonal section of the blog. What we used: card – flesh coloured and blue sugar paper in autumnal colours glue sticks leaves buttons crayons scissors What we did: I helped the children to draw a rough shape of a hedgehog using…
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Scarecrow Collages – Autumn / Fall Crafts for Kids
Scarecrow collages are a great Autumn/Fall craft for younger children. Hope you have as much fun making these as we did! Continuing with our autumn theme we have been looking at scarecrows and using a variety of materials to make collages. My little girl Oodles (2.5yo) and I made these but they are suitable for preschoolers and children in the younger classes at school. What we used: variety of coloured paper and card straw buttons googly eyes PVA non toxic glue paper plates pre-cut face templates fake sheafs of wheat stickers stapler and staples What we did: We started by gluing some straw onto the top of a paper plate…
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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…
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Summer Butterfly Collages: An Invitation to Create – using materials as a stimulus
I love to wander around “Euro” or “Pound” shops looking out for bits and pieces to use in art projects or play activities. On one such trip recently I found these card butterfly cut outs. I’m not a huge fan of using templates and cut outs but I find if they are used in the right way they can be very useful for creative process art projects. Often I use some sort of a stimulus for our art activities – a book, an item, a picture, or even a piece of music. I also use the actual art materials as a stimulus, which is what I did for this…
