Welcome to Day 2 of the Hoosier Horror Blog Hop! Today we are talking about a super easy but fun craft! Chalk drawn fall leaves!
This post had been inspired by an Inner Child activity that she did a while back, but I put my own spin on it. While shopping at United Art and Education for some Art Smart supplies (more on that later), I saw this great little book by Dover of leaf stencils for under $2! I just knew we needed to get it. There are so many things we can make using this. While, on the drive back home, I got to thinking. Why not use chalk and the stencils and make a similar page to Inner Child's.
Supplies needed:
white construction paper
fall leaf stencil (if you can not find this, you can either make your own using photos printed off the computer, or real leaves!)
q-tips
chalk in fall leaf colors
This craft is a very simple and not very messy craft. I had the kids sit at the dinner table, and pick out a leaf stencil. I showed them how to trace the leaf, using the chalk, and leaving a thick line. Now using the q-tips, just make straight lines from the chalk line out. It will give it a nice smudgy look to it. It took the kids just a bit to get the hang of using enough chalk to create this look. But both kids really had fun. They were amazed at how it looked when we were all done. These pictures are now hanging up and decorating our entry hall walls.
I found this idea on a great blog that I follow. The Chocolate Muffin Tree always has fun kid's art and science projects to try. Now we have done the washable markers on coffee filters before, but this time we made leaves!
I laid out sheets of newspaper on our coffee table, drew leaf shapes on coffee filters, and pulled out some fall colors out of our washable marker bin. I showed the kids what to do, and they were off. They had tons of fun playing around with color combinations, and L discovered that if you just leave the marker on the filter, the ink will expand. This was fun to see because he never really paid attention to that kind of stuff before. But then that also resulted in a fight over the one skinny brown marker because "that is the only one that does it". It didn't matter that I told them all the markers do that. Oh well!
