For younger kids it makes a lovely keepsake too, I love seeing kids finger painting from my kids and seeing how little their fingers look.
Autumn Tree Painting Ideas for Kids (FREE TEMPLATE)
I’m so pleased to be able to share these fun autumn tree painting ideas for kids with you today, especially as I’ve also got a free tree template to share with you to make it a bit easier for you and your kids to get creative!
We love autumn crafts and these ideas are really easy for you to try at home with your children – I’m sure you’ll think of loads more ways to paint an autumn tree too and it’s a great excuse to get the paints out, mixing up those gorgeous autumnal colours and most of all having fun together!
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Autumn Tree Painting Ideas for Kids
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.
These autumn tree crafts are designed to be really easy and to inspire you to get creative with the things you have at home.
All 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.
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.
For 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.
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.
For 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.
Free Autumn Tree Template
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. 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.
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.
This is a great craft if your child likes doing painting but isn’t so keen on getting messy. 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.
Tip: If you are using a peg then it’s easier to use large pom poms rather than small ones. Whichever method you use it might also be fun to mix up using large pom poms and small pom poms.
To create this art idea using your pom poms just dip them into your paint and get printing.
Materials needed for Autumn Tree Craft for Kids
- Brown Paper
- Scissors
- Glue Stick
- Black Marker Pen
- Corks
- Red, Yellow, Orange and Brown Paint
- Large sheet of White paper
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How to make the cork printed fall tree with tots
Starting out we wanted to create a tree trunk – I love combining observation with our art projects (like we did with our family portrait collages) so we looked outside at the shapes that tree trunks make and T came up with holding her arm up and spreading the fingers out explaining that it looked just like her arm. Taking that as inspiration on the brown paper we laid down her arm and drew around it and then she roughly cut out side of the lines and I neatened it up from an oval into a hand shape as she wasn’t pleased with the way that it looked.
She then glued the trunk to the paper using a glue stick – we find that using a glue stick is much easier when the project requires more steps as it sticks quickly and forms a good bond to allow you to carry on straight away whereas white PVA glue takes a long time to dry and with preschoolers they get impatient.
I then quickly set up a dish with some corks of different sizes and the paint and demonstrated how to print.
She then went ahead and started to print dots around the top of the tree – it was a perfect opportunity to talk about the colours that she was using and the shapes that the dots were making as well as observe what the trees looked like out of the window.
She then noticed that leaves were falling down with the wind and printed leaves fallen down as well as leaves at the bottom of the tree.
It was left to dry and has since been added to our art wall as the pictures there slowly change from summer inspired art to autumn and seasonal celebrations.
Activities like this although creative give you opportunities to talk about other areas of learning with your children, we spent time talking about shapes, the colours and what happened when two colours were mixed together as well as observing why some prints were better than others.
More Autumn Crafts for Toddlers and Preschoolers
- Symmetrical Leaf Drawings
- Leaf Art
- Pumpkin Numbers
Autumn Tree Paintings
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