Fall crafts are full of opportunities to add all sorts of outdoorsy fall leaves and other fall nature objects into art activities. (Even though we did this activity in the summer time)

This particular activity is really a tree art activity. It doesn’t only have to be done in the Fall, but since Fall is tree time,  you can concentrate on trees in your  art activities in many activities that can be done with kids.

The way we did this activity is a follows.

We took the children on a nature walk to collect all kinds of leaves.

(If that is not possible due to where you live, then if you can, you can bring in a  whole bunch of leaves for the children to work with.)

We showed the children( that’s what you have to do if they have no experience with rubbing activities).

They turned the leaves over backwards and placed a paper over each leaf  and using an unpeeled crayon  rubbed the leaves until the shapes and its veins showed through.

You can give the children either colored construction paper as seen above or plain white computer paper. (which is actually thinner)

We  had them cut out the leaves.

We presented them with a  choice of trunks to use.

You can use different brown and black materials for this, it does not have to only be the types I offered in the image below.

We gave the children a piece of tag board and had them paste the tree trunks they chose onto the tag board.

They  then used the leaves they  cut out to decorate their trees.

You can also give them other materials to add to their trees depending on what they want.

The children may want to incorporate the real leaves into their tree pictures as well.

You are not limited too rubbings and leaves for tree pictures. You can use a whole assortment of materials that children can create their own trees. In a future post I will show you materials we use.

If you want to do more art activities with trees and leaves you can find

another fall art activity with creating their own leaves which mainly concentrates on the children creating leaves.