Fall Leaves Crafts and Activities
My youngest asked if we could paint some leaves this morning. It has been a long time since we have done any crafts at home, so I immediately said yes. He wanted to cut some leaves from paper and paint them, but I suggested we take a walk and collect some real leaves to paint. So, we took a short walk in the neighborhood and collected a ton of different kinds of leaves.
Here are the leaves we collected.
Once we were back home, we talked about which colors are fall colors. We set up our paint tray and began painting.
My boys were super creative and created some gorgeous leaves.
Here are a few of my favorites:
So, inspired by this experience with my boys, I search around the web a bit and found a handful of other fall leaves crafts that I hope to do with my boys this season.
Outside Leaf Sorting from This Reading Mama
Autumn Leaf Art Project from Pragmatic Mom
Fall Leaf Shadow Matching from Tot Schooling
Sight Word Leaves from JDaniel’s4 Mom
Autumn Leaf Art (Doodles and Mandala) from The Artful Parent
Tracing Paper Leaf Cards from Willow Day
From Green to Gold: Fall Leaves from Boy Mama Teacher Mama
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We’ve never painted leaves before but they are stunning! Thanks for the inspiration!
My kids would enjoy this activity – and it will brighten up the brown leaves we get in the fall here in California.
It really was great fun!