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Go wild with some bright autumn colours to create this autumn tree painting, and capture your child's hands in time!
You will need:
Construction paper
Poster paint in autumn colours (we use brown, yellow, orange, red and gold)
With a brush (or finger) paint the branches and stump of the tree with brown paint. When dry print handprints in lots of different autumn colours over the branches to be the leaves. We added finger prints on the ground to create fallen leaves.
This lovely craft idea can be undertaken in one go as a project on the seasons - or in four parts over the year as each season arrives. However you choose to do it, the canvases make an eye-catching display.
This is a lovely craft for younger children, who will enjoy both the hand painting and printing and the sticking on of stickers! You could adapt the craft for spring by using pink "blossom" stickers.
These felt leaves are a simple way to teach children basic embroidery stitches as they get to see a quick result. We have stuck to basic backstitch as we are just starting out but you can be more ambitious if you like and experiment with other stitches.