How to Paint Autumn Trees
When the leaves change in the autumn season, you can celebrate this change with your children by providing them with a topical craft. For example, children can paint the beautiful, vibrant colors of the autumn trees, like yellow, red and orange. You can even use the painting time to explain to your kids why the leaves change colors. Once the paintings are finished, you can hang them up on the wall to make your home feel more festive.
Things You'll Need
- Craft paper
- Scissors
- Tempera paint (brown, yellow, red, orange, purple)
- 5 bowls
- Paintbrush
- Towel
Instructions
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Place a sheet of craft paper onto a tabletop or desk.
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Pour tempera paint into five different bowls: one brown, one yellow, one orange, one red and one purple.
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Paint your palm using brown paint.
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Press your painted palm onto the craft paper. This will be the tree's branches.
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Clean off the painted palm using a wet washcloth.
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Paint the tree's trunk using brown paint and a paintbrush.
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Dip your thumb into yellow paint, and press in onto the fingers of your hand print. This will be one of the autumn leaves.
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Repeat this process with the red, orange, purple and more yellow paint until the branches of the tree are filled with autumn leaves.
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Clean off your thumb using the wet washcloth.
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Repeat this process until you have as many autumn trees as you want in your painting.
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References
- Photo Credit painting image by Dmitri MIkitenko from Fotolia.com
