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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…