Leaf Walk Watercolor Art
Post by Contributing Writer Amy
A cute fall day calls for some leaf collecting! Here's a fun project with beautiful results that tin exist done with a diverseness of ages. You can find a similar activity on Fun at Home with Kids. Before going on a walk to collect leaves, gather up your supplies:
- Hot gum gun
- Hot glue sticks
- Thick white newspaper (card stock or watercolor paper)
- Pencil for each kid
- Paint Brush for each child
- H2o
- Watercolors (Ruby-red, orange, yellow, and brown)
- Masking Tape (optional)
- Leaves
Our leaf collecting "walk" turned in to me being the only one walking (and pushing the stroller), merely the trunks of the niggling trikes turned out to be great places to put leaves equally they were collected.
We were looking for leaves with cool shapes that were still apartment enough to trace. They found all kinds of beautiful fall treasures. In that location was some business organisation nigh united states of america taking acorns because "the squirrels might really demand them." :)
Accept the kids lay out the leaves on their paper and trace them with the pencil. It seemed to be just the correct amount of claiming for my 4 year olds to do independently and was great pre-writing practice for them.
Use the hot gum gun to trace over the pencil leaves and add a heart line and some side veins with hot glue. After the kids pull off all the little extra hot glue strings, the pictures are set up for watercolors. While the watercolor paints are still dry out, y'all tin put a slice of masking tape over colors other than red, yellow, orangish, and brown.
You can allow them do it anyhow they'd similar, or give them the direction to paint the background a different color than they paint the leaves, leaving no white space. I just let them go to see what happened. I personally preferred it volition full coverage, but was impressed by the paintbrush tapping technique used to create some splatter outcome. I always effort to remind myself that it's the kids' art, not mine. It used to work peachy for me to practise my own art alongside them. That manner, I wasn't tempted to requite them directions and suggestions while they created. These days I'k too decorated keeping baby sister from drinking the cloudy paint h2o or sticking the pigment brush up her nose to micromanage their art! Toddlers and perfectionism just don't go together well. I think she's cured me. :)
It was fun to see how different the paintings turned out, fifty-fifty though they were created under exactly the same circumstances. When we have another beautiful leaf collecting day, we can do it again on folded paper to make fall greeting cards to mail to loved ones. Happy foliage collecting!
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Amy is a erstwhile reading and third form teacher as well as a mother to three little girls with big personalities. She believes joy can e'er exist found in playing, learning, and ice cream.
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