Art & Crafts - Fall Leaf Art

Our Arts & Crafts project for this week was Fall Leaf Art. This was a lot of fun because we started by heading to the park to collect leaves. Xander had a ball picking out different shapes, sizes and colors of fall leaves. We brought them home and the next afternoon we made our Fall Leaf pictures...

So the first step mommy had to help with because, yes, Xander can color very well, but this was a bit too complicated for a two year old...

Step 1 - Lay an assortment of leaves out on a piece of copy paper...



Step 2 - Cover the leaves with another sheet of copy paper and paper clip together. Color over each of the leaves with red, yellow, orange and green crayons, making sure to get the impressions of the veins and stems of the leaves...





Step 3 - Have your little one paint over the paper with water color paints, making sure to cover the entire page with paint...





Step 4 - When dry glue to a piece of construction paper to create a picture frame effect...



And that's it! Fall leaf art!



Here's Xander's hanging on the fridge...



Xander had a great time painting, naming the colors and discussing the shapes of all the different leaves, I think this turned out to be a easy and fun fall project.