#AUTUMN TREES WINDOW FULL#
#AUTUMN TREES WINDOW FREE#

In fact, the word deciduous comes from the Latin word decidere, which means to fall down or off. Photo by Erin Korsmo.Īt the end of fall, most deciduous trees lose their leaves for the winter season. You can use Lego for this but Duplo will give bigger circles and can be better for little hands to hold too.Above: Oak trees at Murphy-Hanrehan Park Reserve hold onto their leaves through winter. Using the template makes it look so much better than my attempts at drawing a tree! I’ve shared a Lego printed craft before but I couldn’t resist including the idea again with this and using our tree template. I love how the different amounts of paint on the sponge can give a different effect – big splodges or tiny little lines! Sponges are also really easy for young kids to hold onto and they’re pretty easy to clean afterwards so you can pop them away in a draw afterwards to paint with again another day.

I’m never quite sure what these things are called – bath sponges? Shower puffs? Either way they’re a great material to print with and if you don’t have one at home already you can buy them online here. If you wanted to you could also try dipping your child’s finger into green paint to make some grass at the bottom of the tree. You could also do this as a collaborative art project with more than one child and get them each to add their fingerprints.įor younger kids it makes a lovely keepsake too, I love seeing kids finger painting from my kids and seeing how little their fingers look. If you don’t mind a bit of mess then finger painting is a really sensory way to get creative and to mix the colours up a bit, make sure you keep a cloth nearby to clean up any messy hands afterwards! To create this art idea using your pom poms just dip them into your paint and get printing. Whichever method you use it might also be fun to mix up using large pom poms and small pom poms. Tip: If you are using a peg then it’s easier to use large pom poms rather than small ones. You can grab hold of the pom poms with your fingers or if you don’t want to get messy then use a clothes peg to hold onto it. This is a great craft if your child likes doing painting but isn’t so keen on getting messy.

#AUTUMN TREES WINDOW FULL#

I love the effect of using pom poms to paint autumn leaves so much, it’s so simple to do but the result really looks like a full autumn tree to me. We’ve also used this template for our paint splat fall tree craft and this bleeding tissue tree craft both of which are great for autumn art.

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Our free tree template can be used for all four seasons and you can print as many copies as you’d like, meaning that you can try out as many of these ideas as you like. You’ll also find some more of our most popular autumn crafts for kids at the end of this post so do check them out for more easy ways to keep your kids busy.įor this post I’ve shared a video of this craft in action as I know that both my kids and I sometimes like to watch how something has been made, I hope that you find it helpful. I also find that once we start looking for things to paint with we often find more items we could use so hopefully this will help inspire you to come up with your own ideas too.įor all of these crafts I’ve put our paint onto a plate, this means that the paints are easy to access no matter what you are painting with and also allows the paints to mix slightly which I think adds to the effect of leaf colours.

These autumn tree crafts are designed to be really easy and to inspire you to get creative with the things you have at home.Īll the items that’s I’ve used to paint the trees are things that you either are likely to already have or that you can normally buy quite easily. Autumn is a great time to encourage creativity and the changing colours of the leaves make it perfect for inspiring some painting, especially as you can look at the way the colours mix together.

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