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Harvest Art
• Contact_FullName: Lisa Contact_Email: lisadshipley@aol.com Area: Fall Idea: We bought a bunch of different shapes and colors of gourds. All had very bumpy textures. We had the kids dip/roll them in paint and then paint with them instead of a paint brush. We used fall colors for the paint. The pictures looked great and you could see the different textures of the gourds on the paper. Contact_FullName: Britt Contact_Email: dubendrisb@franklin.k12.ma.us Area: Fall/Harvest/Leaves-Art/Fine Motor Idea: In advance, make a large tree pattern (without leaves) on a piece of bulletin board paper. Have the children use eye droppers and drop diluted food coloring in fall colors onto paper towels. Once the paper towels are dry have the students tear small pieces of the colored paper towels and crumple it up (fine motor part). Then have them glue the crumpled paper towel pieces onto the tree to look like leaves. Great activity to talk about team work and the kids love to tear things!! Contact_FullName: Alicia Contact_Email: macnbibber@yahoo.com Area: Harvest-Art Idea: Paint the children's fore arms and hands brown and make an arm/hand print on white construction paper. Then have the children finger-paint leaves (fingerprints) on their branches with fall colors. Makes a beautiful and personalized autumn tree! Contact_FullName: Denise Contact_Email: don_and_denise@yahoo.com Area: art Idea: As part of our fall harvest theme every year, we have the kids cover a leaf (preferably cardboard) in Fruit Loops cereal. It gives the leaf a dimensional look, and definitely fall-like! Contact_FullName: Denise Contact_Email: deniseq8@hotmail.com Area: Pumpkin Art Idea: To make a stuffed pumpkin, we took a paper plate and cut orange crepe paper approx. 1.5" larger than the plate. The children then glue the crepe paper three quarters the way around the plate (glue sticks work the best). They stuff the pumpkin with scraps of orange crepe paper and then glue the rest. With a stencil, they then trace a green stem and a leaf and cut it out. They attach the stem and leaf to the pumpkin with glue. These pumpkins are great for fall/harvest bulletin boards. Other vegetables can be made in a similar fashion (eg. eggplant, yellow squash, etc..). A bulletin board with these veg. and stalks of corn and our homemade baskets worked great for our harvest/Thanksgiving Theme. The children harvested the board the day before Thanksgiving break using the baskets to carry their harvest (like the pilgrims did) Contact_FullName: Sandy Contact_Email: ck1798@yahoo.com date:: 10/16/06 Area: Harvest Idea: Autumn Trees Have children cut a tree trunk from brown paper. Next let the children glue it onto a large sheet of white paper. Place paint (fall colors) on paper plates in the middle of the table and provide a Q-tip or for smaller children, let them use their finger tips to make leaves around the tree trunk. It's so colorful and they all come out looking different and wonderful! Contact_FullName: Courtney Contact_Email: keurtni21@aol.com date:: 10/10/06 Area: Harvest Idea: Items needed: *roll of toilet paper *16x16 piece of orange fabric *Strips of green fabric *a stick about ½-1" in diameter and between 3" and 6" long Give each child in your class a roll of toilet paper and let them go crazy tearing it off of the roll completely. When the roll is completely stripped, place the cardboard tube in the middle of the orange fabric standing upright and place all of the toilet paper around it. Then gather the fabric at the top, lay the green fabric strips along the top and shove the stick down in the hole of the toilet paper tube (shoving the fabric down in the hole too...this holds it together). These make the cutest pumpkins...they are great for decoration and they last forever. Contact_FullName: rachel Contact_Email: rachelwhetzel@peoplepc.com Area: Leaves-Misc. Idea: I went to my local 99cent store, and bought "branches" with silk leaves in fall colors. Once I got home, I cut each leaf off of it's branch. Then I took them to my class and put the leaves into our sensory bin. We have kid sized rakes at school, and the kids got to spread the leaves around our room and them rake them up. I also used the leaves with a few of the song ideas I got from this site and used them in the motions with the kids. I teach toddlers, and this was a great way to allow them to enjoy fall leaves without a huge mess, and to use them in multiple ways. Contact_FullName: Becky Contact_Email: lea484@peoplepc.com Area: Fall Idea: First I cut up pieces of red, yellow, and orange yarn. I give each child a piece of contact paper and let them place the pieces of yarn on the contact paper. Then you fold the contact paper over and cut it in the shape of a leaf and you have a new variation to the old tissue and contact paper leaves. I did this with my pre-k class talk
about mega fun. ontact_FullName: darnita Contact_Email: nisha1nahl@aol.com Idea: have child cut out 5 pumpkins then make a gate with craft sticks glue and on paper, next child will glue pumpkins above gate. this activity goes with the finger play five pumpkins sitting on a gate. Contact_FullName: Vivian Contact_Email: vtallman23@mchsi.com Idea: Acorn Painting Place a sheet of paper into a low sided box (empty coke can box). Have the child drop an acorn into fall colored paint. The child lifts the acorn out of paint with a spoon and drops the acorn onto the paper. Let the child tilt the box from side to side. Repeat with other fall colors. Contact_FullName: Donna Contact_Email: ddyoung8790@comcast.net date:: 11/04/06 Area: Harvest-Art Idea: My class loved this idea. We did harvest grain art. First I showed them different grains, wheat, flour, corn meal, oats etc. Next we added several spoonfuls to different paint and made it thick. After that we used veggie cookie/playdough cutters and made great textured prints. Contact_FullName: Terra Contact_Email: tfrench@frontiernet.net date:: 10/30/06 Area: Leaves-Fall-Art Idea: With our pre-school children I love to have the children work with fall colors, leaves and combining colors. With this project you need to cut out various leave shapes, then mix sugar and a small amount of water, mix together with red, yellow, green, etc. food coloring. The children then paint their leaves. When the leaves dry they look like glistening, beautiful fall leaves. They are not that messy and when they dry can be kept indefinitely. You can discuss with the children how when yellow and orange are mixed they make red and so on. Contact_FullName: Sharlene Contact_Email: leviluv@optonline.net Idea - Beautiful Fall Mural Materials: Plastic Bags, Butcher Paper, Glue, Red, Yellow, Orange, & Green Paints, Leaves, Pinecones, Berries, & Twigs. We did this with our class and what a work of art it all turned out! First, have the children go on a nature walk and collect leaves, pinecones, berries, twigs, or anything you can think of that would make an awesome class mural. Place everything in bags. Second, have the children either fingerpaint or paint by brushing all the colors of the fall onto a long sheet of brown butcher paper. The next day, after the paint had a chance to dry, give the children glue and the assorted fall collected that they collected the previous day. For the last part, I would write and draw a picture next to any words (so the children can "read along" with you) and talk about what you did with them. Everyone who comes into our room admires how beautiful it is!!! :) Contact_FullName: Mel Contact_Email: mellybean20@hotmail.com Area: Leaf Art Idea: The children in my center used to love doing this art project. As a class we collected leaves. Then with fall colors such as brown, red, orange and yellow we painted on top of the leaves onto a white paper and all around. After painting the children pealed of the leaves and it make a beautiful leaf pattern. Contact_FullName: Stephanie Contact_Email: smvsw2004@yahoo.com Idea: Have the children (any age group over 18 months) go outside and gather leaves. Take the leaves inside and have children do a leaf rubbing by taping the leaf to the table and placing paper, preferably thin paper, over top the leaf. Have children use a crayon and gently rub over the leaf, exposing a wonderful leaf picture. Contact_FullName: Keith Contact_Email: krosko@krosko.com Idea: Find and preserve your fall leaves. Leaves are then glued to hand-made or decorative paper and can be run through and Epson printer and print artwork onto your leaf. You can see examples of our leaf art at www.krosko.com. Contact_FullName: Jessica Contact_Email: jessylouie@yahoo.ca date:: 02/23/05 Area: Fall-art Idea: During September we took the children on a nature walk to pick up leaves, twigs, pinecones( some picked small rocks)...etc. We were planning to make fall wreaths that afternoon, throughout the walk the coordinator of our centre was taking pictures of each child showing off their fall treasures. When we returned to the centre and the children started to glue the items onto the plate with the centre cut out, I suggested making them picture frames using the pictures that were taken from the walk (the parents loved it) Contact_FullName: Rachel Holland Contact_Email: wmfalcon07@hotmail.com date:: 10/25/20 Area: Fall- Art Idea: Pumpkin Patch is a great idea to do when it is close to fall. All you need is sponges, stencils of a pumpkin and some leaves and paint. Then all you do is have the child(ren) using a piece of paper put the stencil on and sponge paint the outline till it forms the wanted picture! Contact_FullName: Abbey Contact_Email: Snowflake1396@hotmail.com date:: 10/08/04 Area: Leaf Art Idea: Take the children for a walk around the school yard to collect fall leaves. Make sure they are flat and not crunched, ripped, wet or dirty. Take them back in and give them each a piece of white paper. The kind that you use in a photocopier. Talk about the veins in the leaves they are all the lines inside the leaf. Also talk about the shape of the leaves like maple or oak and all the points they have. Also talk about the stem. Each child should have 2-4 leaves depending on the size of the paper and leaves. Then give the children each some fall color crayons like red, orange, brown or yellow. Put the leaves flat underneath the paper and rub the crayon on top. Then you can see all the veins of the leaf, the shapes, the points and even the stem. The children will be amazed. Contact_FullName: Mrs.Janie Contact_Email: MrsJpoohbear@aol.com date:: 9/21/04 Area: Fall -leaves Idea: Marble Art: If you cut out a leaf pattern. I always use a big leaf then roll a marble over it back and forth it makes it look like a real leaf and the kids love doing this. I use a box and put the leaf pattern in it, and then put paint in the corners, and roll it back and forth. It is not messy doing it that way. Yellow and orange are very pretty for this . Have fun and use Fall colors. Contact_FullName: Renee Contact_Email: RDG72@optonline.net date:: o9/16/04 Idea: Harvest Wreath- cut out middle from paper plate. Have children color pictures of fruit and vegetables, cut out, and glue around rim of plate to make a harvest wreath Contact_FullName: Kate Heekin Contact_Email: heekin@kittredge.org Idea: I teach in San Fran but reconnected with an old teacher friend in Connecticut. Our classes became penpals and in late October each one of my students sent a "California leaf" to the CT kids and they did the same in return. It was fascinating to compare CT leaves to CA leaves and we laminated the leaves they sent to serve as bookmarks! Contact_FullName: Denise Contact_Email: don_and_denise@yahoo.com date:: 09/22/03 Area: art Idea: As part of our fall harvest theme every year, we have the kids cover a leaf (preferably cardboard) in Fruit Loops cereal. It gives the leaf a dimensional look, and definitely fall-like! Contact_FullName: Theresa Contact_Email: Greentee1209@aol.com date:: 8/30/03 Area: Fall/Harvest-art Idea: Kid trees! Have the children lie down on a long piece of butcher paper with their arms above their head, trace them, and let them sponge paint or paint leaves and make prints of them onto the arm "branches" You could put the date and their height at the time and chart the class' heights. Contact_FullName: Paula Contact_Email: GLITTER2525 date:: 6-24-03 Area: Fall (Autumn) Idea: GLITTER TREE White Oaktag with an outline of a tree trunk) Freshly Picked Leaves Tempera Paint in Fall Colors Glitter in Fall Colors Take your children on a fall walk. Pick leaves that are colorful. Let the leaves sit for a day in case there is any moisture on them. Have the kids paint the leaves in fall colors (orange, brown, red, yellow and green). At the same time let them put glitter on the wet paint. When the paint and the glitter dry have the children glue the leaves on the top part of the tree trunk.. Have the kids decorate the trunk in brown marker/dot marker and brown tissue paper. Makes a gorgeous fall tree. Contact_FullName: Nancy Contact_Email: peppielepue@aol.com date:: 11-09-02 Area: Harvest Time Idea: I get medium size pumpkins and set them at the art tables in my class room. Then I have washable markers of various colors on the tables. The children can draw or print whatever they want and after class, I just run cold water over the pumpkins and the pumpkins are ready for the next class. When the children start losing interest in the activity, I let each of them take home a pumpkin and send a note with them to tell parents about my reusable art activity. Contact_FullName: Pat Contact_Email: pfuller38@cs.com date:: 10/29/02 Area: Fall/Harvest Idea: Put about a cup of unpopped popcorn in a knee high stocking and tie the stocking in a knot. Holding the top of the stocking, dip the corn in paint and "bounce" it on your paper. Makes a beautiful print and can be used for any season. Contact_FullName: Pieper Contact_Email: pieper@ncis.net date:: 10/3/01 Area: Harvest-Art or Leaf-Art Idea: Trace the child's forearm and fingers on brown paper for a tree trunk and branches. Cut it out if you like, glue it to white const. paper and sponge paint fall colored leaves. Even our youngest ones really get into it! Contact_FullName: Janet Contact_Email: ZanU714 date:: 10/02/01 Area: Harvest Idea: Use brown construction paper and black marker to create harvest baskets. Be sure each child has a basket with a space big enough to put apples or vegetables inside. In our class, we glued pictures of tomatoes, cabbage, corn to the "inside" of our baskets, and glued the empty baskets to light green construction paper so we had room for the painted veggies that fell out or didn't fit in the baskets! We used white paper and pre-drawn veggies for the students to paint, but I'm sure you could use any kind of picture to glue onto your baskets! Contact_FullName: cathy Contact_Email: csc54@home.com date:: 9/23/01 Area: Fall Art Idea: Fall Leaves: Trace and cut out different leaf shapes, either on manila paper or construction paper and have the children water color the leaves, these are beautiful and it gives the children their first experiences with water color. This has always been one of my more popular fall activities. Contact_FullName: Karen Contact_Email: mamatrudo@aol.com date:: 09/22/01 Area: Harvest-Art Idea: Candy Apples-slice off the bottom of a three inch Styrofoam ball so that it will sit flat. Add a craft stick to the top. Have children paint with red paint with a small amount of glue mixed in. I liked using larger brushes. Sprinkle top with glitter or real sprinkles. We loved it. Great for a class with food allergies. Contact_FullName: Nedra Contact_Email: libertyforall01@hotmail.com date:: 10-22-01 Area: Harvest art Idea: Have children to tear up different colors of tissue paper into medium pieces and put in a container. Take some white paper and have them decorate it with different colors using stick glue. Once they have it will look like a beautiful fall collage. Contact_FullName: Beth Contact_Email: tbigg_totton@yahoo.com date:: 10/12/01 Area: harvest art Scarecrow Puppets My Pre-K class just made the following scarecrow puppets and they loved them! Before you do the craft, glue two jumbo craft sticks together to make them double the length and also glue a stick across the top to create scarecrow arms. Cut out a shirt and pair of pants out of felt or fabric that corresponds to the size of the sticks. Have the children put the end of an old sock over a medium sized Styrofoam ball for the head. Stick the head on the top of the craft stick. Then have them glue on the fabric clothes, patches, and buttons to the stick body. Also have them glue button eyes and nose on the sock head. Use straw colored raffia for the hair (I attached with pipe cleaner) and a small straw head attached with toothpicks. I also used a red pipe cleaner for a mouth. They are adorable. My students enjoyed making up songs with them and then I used them for a very cute, three dimensional bulletin board. Contact_FullName: Vivian Contact_Email: prevj@teacher.com date:: 10-7-01 Area: Harvest-Art Fall Walk----I take my 3 and 4 yr olds on a walk around the school. We gather pine cones, leaves, dried grass, anything that they want and they put their treasures in a paper sack they have decorated. After our walk, we go inside and each child chooses one thing they want to put on our class mural and we gather around the butcher paper together and glue the items on. As we glue them on, we talk about each thing. My class has a lot of fun doing this. They can also glue other items on construction paper if they wish.
11-18-00After my children had taken the corn off of 10 pounds of feed corn (sensory table), we used the cobs to paint. I put out purple, red, yellow and brown on large paper plates so that is was easy to roll the cob in. I than encouraged them to roll all over a large sheet of paper. When the paint was dry, I let them trace around a ear of corn shape three times. After they had cut their three ears out, I stapled it at the top in a fan arrangement. Next we added about 6 inches of raffia and a paper twist bow at the top. What a great fall decoration, and the children enjoyed making new colors when they rolled their corn cobs into different colors.
11-4-00For a classroom or hallway decoration, you cut out 2 pumpkin shapes out of poster board. Cut a door in top one, open door and glue 2 shapes together. Cut out pumpkin seed shapes out of paper or poster board and write every child's name on separate seed and glue to 2nd sheet behind door. Then attach poem: Teacher, teacher, preschool teacher had a class that couldn't be neater. She stuck them in a pumpkin shell and there she left them very well.
11-4-00I use this for a Fall Bulletin Board--especially in November. I cut out a "quilt" block for every child (we have 48). I use manila paper. The outside edges of the quilt have straight edges and for the inside edges I use pinking shears or other fun-edged scissors. That way the quilt seems to fit together on the bulletin board. I usually send the quilt blocks home to be decorated as a family project. I use a brown background (our color for November) and use fabric or ribbon for the border. It is very simple, but very nice when completed!
10-30-00In the fall collect a variety of leaves. At the woodworking table place a block of wood on the table then place your leaf on top. Cover your leaf with a small scrap of white fabric, or muslin. Use hammers or small blocks to bang on the fabric. The colors from the leaves comes out on the fabric. This also works with flowers.
10-23-00Gather leaves (Maple or Oak are best), have children paint the back of leaf with water color paint, lay a piece of white construction paper on top of leaf -- very pretty! Fun to frame too!
10-16-00Cut leaf shapes from green construction paper. Cover the table with brown paper. Pour a small amount of red, yellow, orange and brown paint on four areas of the table. Give each child a leaf and have them pat it on each color. The paint needs to be refreshed periodically. The leaves look beautiful and the children really enjoy seeing the leaves turn color with each color of paint they put it on.
10-16-00Fall Mural. This is pretty messy, but it's eye-catching when it's completed. Start with a long piece of butcher paper (blue looks nice). - have children paint with their feet to make green grass. - paint with arm and hand to make a tree trunk - paint with red, orange, yellow to make leaves on their tree. (works best to put one hand in one color and the other hand in a second color). - Paint with cupped hands to make white clouds in the sky. This mural usually takes my preschoolers 4 or 5 days to complete. When dried, the children can write their name at the base of their tree.
10-8-00With my 4 year olds, We make a huge Fall tree out of butcher paper to hang in the hall. The children help paint the trunk and then use red and yellow paint to make leaves with their hands . When the prints overlap you end up having some orange leaves, also. After our tree is made we make acorns to go on and under the tree using cornflakes as the top part of the acorn. We also make different types of leaves using contact paper and tissue paper. The children stick tissue paper onto the sticky side of the contact paper and then we stick the paper together and cut out leaf shapes. We add all sorts of fall stuff through out the season. It looks great!
10-7-00In our two year old class we took the pattern of a gingerbread man and cut them out and then let the children glue scraps of fabric onto them to make scarecrows. Great small motor.
10-7-00Take clothespins, cotton balls, powder tempra paint and paper. Have the children practice pinching by using the clothespins to put on the cotton balls. Then dip them into the dry powder paint, and have them dot with fall colors all over their paper. When they are done have the child spray their paper with a water bottle, to make paint. After they dry, precut out of construction paper, outlines of leaves. Then just place the construction paper over the painted paper, to make a beautiful leaf display! They children loved doing this in our ECSE room!
10-7-00Rolled Potato Art I did this with ages from 2 to 5 and they all loved it!! You need: ~Potato's (one for each color paint you use) ~Paint (At least two colors to let the children chose a color) ~Spoon ~Deep container (Small Rubbermaid container works well) ~Construction Paper Take construction paper and place (you might want to tape it to the bottom) it in the container, you may need to cut paper a little to fit. Let the child pick a color of paint and spoon a little in the middle of the paper. Place one potato in the container and let children roll it around. At the end it is interesting to see the shape of the potato on the paper in the way it rolled around. The kids love to use their big muscle groups to roll that potato around!
10-7-00Fist prints Pumpkin Patch Have the children make a fist. Dip the outside of the fingers into some orange paint and then press onto a sheet of paper. (You may need to help them "roll" their fist onto the paper.) Repeat this several times. After the paint dries, the children may use crayons or markers to draw the stems, leaves, and vines. ~~~~ I did this with my 2 and 3 year olds. They had a blast. But I had to help them make the stems, leaves, and vines. It was worth it!
10-7-00I cut out a large tree trunk with branches out of brown bulletin board paper then glue it on to a large white piece of bulletin board paper. Using fall colors, I have the children make hand print leaves all over the top of the tree. A few days later we will makes squirrels and tape them around and on our tree. Very colorful and beautiful to display in or outside a classroom. A good project to show how everyone can work together to create something wonderful.
10-6-00Materials to use School glue, Q-tips, Food coloring and a variety of leaf patterns on tagboard. Mix glue with yellow, red, green and orange (mix yellow & red) food coloring in separate containers. Let each child choose the leaf pattern they want to use. Using Q-tips let them paint the different colors onto the leaves as they like. You will want to change out the Q-tips as often as needed because the cotton ravels off after a few uses. This activity is not very messy at all and dries a lot faster than paint. I cut out a tree trunk and put on the bulletin board and attached the children's leaves some on the tree and some on the bottom as if they were on the ground. This makes a beautiful fall bulletin board scene and next week I will be adding out pumpkins around the trunk of the tree for the scenery. I hope everyone enjoys this as much as I did. I did 4 children at a time. I work with Pre-K children.
10-6-00For Fall I cut out the middle of a large paper plate (save the middle). I let the children paint the paper plate in a fall color. When it is completely dry the children glue fall items onto the plate, such as real leaves, leaves bought at the craft store, or leaves made out of construction paper, they also glue on acorns, pumpkin seeds, use your fall imagination! they a loop of yarn is attached and they have a beautiful fall wreath. Now with the middle of the paper plate the children can paint it red or green, cut out a stem from construction paper, glue the stem to the top and you have a cute apple.
10-2-00Fall Leaves: Fold white or light green paper in half. Cut out leaf shapes. Unfold the paper. Have child put yellow and orange blobs of paint on only one side of unfolded leaf. Refold the leaf on the already creased line with the paint inside. Rub a little over leaf. Unfold. Voila. A decorated leaf! We also rolled marbles covered in paint over the "painted" leaves after they dried.
9-30-00We cut leaf shapes form butcher paper. We also cut small squares and rectangles from fall color tissue paper. The children painted white vinegar onto the paper placed the tissue paper on top of the small wet spot and then painted more vinegar on top. Let the vinegar dry. Peel off the tissue paper and you have a beautiful fall leaf.
9-30-00Have the children collect fall leaves on a nature walk. Cut 5" squares of wax paper. Place one leaf on one square of wax paper. Have children grate crayons onto leaf. Then have an adult place a second square of wax paper on top of the leaf and crayon. Cover with a brown paper bag and iron for 15 seconds. When cooled punch hole in top and thread yarn in hole. It creates a sun catcher.
9-30-00Gather large pinecones, one for each child. Using a whole punch cut out circles in the various fall leaf colors. Have children glue the circles to the ends of the pinecone branches. Looks really great and easy to create.
9-30-00I teach 2nd grade, but I think this idea would work with preschoolers if a lot of adult help was available. You will need the following materials for each child: 1/2 sheet of white construction paper, squares of tissue paper in assorted fall colors, a straw On the white paper, use a dropper to drip some watered down brown tempera paint. The child blows through the straw to form the trunk of the tree. They are very unique-looking. After it has dried, crumple the tissue paper into small balls and glue them on the branches of the tree for the leaves. I only let them do about 7-8 leaves...it looks better that way. I back it on a piece of brown or orange const. paper that is cut slightly larger...it looks like a frame.
9-30-00For a Fall theme art project I traced an Acorn on a piece of brown construction paper. (I made the acorn take up the whole sheet of paper) . I asked the children to help me find some brown leaves that have fallen to the ground. (the older they are and crisper, the better!) We put them in a bag and crushed the leaves. In small cups I added glitter to brown paint. On the "cap" of the acorn spread some glue and add the crushed brown leaves. Paint the bottom of the acorn with the brown glitter paint. The children LOVED this project (so did I!) and it came out beautiful!
9-30-00Gather leaves, they should not be too dry. Using wide tip markers color the leaves one color, turn leave over and "stamp" it onto paper. rub all over to get whole leaf print. Do different leaves in different colors on a page. These really look nice. The paper can be glued on a larger piece to be framed.
9-30-00Make a huge apple out of tag board. Have children as a group paste tissue paper (red or green) to the tag board apple. Then paste a real leaf ant stem for the top of the apple.
9-26-00My children love to decorate. In the fall, they get the honor of making a centerpiece. We go on a nature hike and collect anything that catches their eye, acorns, leaves, corn husks, small pumpkins, gourds etc. They clear the table and begin gluing leaves to sticks, pipe cleaners or flower picks. Then they stick them in a foam ball at different heights and add the pumpkins, nuts or other larger items around the base for a beautiful arrangement, can be done on plate or pan to keep compact.
9-17-00My family Portrait Take a family picture and trace it onto a piece of construction paper. Cut out the middle so it becomes a frame. Take a different color piece of construction paper and cut a smaller hole. Glue the picture to this piece and then glue the larger piece over it. It becomes a frame for the picture. Cut out small leaves of fall colors and allow the children to glue them to the "frame." Works great for mothers day, fathers day, and grandparents day.
9-17-00Leaf Rubbing Place various leaves under a piece of white paper. Have the children rub crayons over the leaves leaving an imprint.
9-17-00Nature Bracelet: Wrap a piece of wide brown paper tape around the child's wrist inside out. Then when you go on a nature walk they may stick little things they find to the bracelet. Example: Small dried flowers, acorns, small pine cones.
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Material: Procedure: Allow children to paste craft sticks on black construction paper. This will be the tree's trunk The then children draw branches by using their fingers with brown paint. Children then dip their fingers in the other colors and print them on the paper, making their finger prints as leaves. this activity looks beautiful and colorful.
9-15-00Take a large leaf and place it on a sheet of paper. I usually secure it with tape. Using fall colored tempera paint, sponge paint over the leaf. Remove the leaf and you have a great print on your paper. You can use one leaf or several on each paper.
9-15-00Our idea is titled "Falling Into Friendship". Using brown paper we made a tree trunk. We traced around each child's hands using fall colored construction paper, helped them cut them out. Then you and the children place the hands on the tree and branches in any way you like. Then you add a picture of each child to one of the hand leaves. And you have a friendship tree. ( We used this idea as a fall bulletin board and it turned out great! Everyone loves it!)
9-15-00Give each child two large pumpkin shaped cutouts from orange construction paper. Let them glue orange yarn (represents the pulp) and pumpkin seeds on one of the pumpkins. Then let them attach the other pumpkin on top with a brad. Label with the title, "What's inside?"
9-13-00For Fall we cut large apples out of red construction paper. Place the apple in a shoe box or other good size box and provide children with a small amount of paint in a margarine tub. Place a marble in the paint and roll it until it is covered, then with a spoon place the marble in the shoe box on top of the paper apple. The child will then roll the marble around and paint tracks will appear. Children love this and can continually drop the marble back in the paint and then roll it on the apple again. After the marble paintings dry, we punch a hole at the top and hang them in our classroom. Very cute for Fall. This marble rolling can also be done on turkey, tree or Easter egg shapes!
9-13-00For some fall art for apples or pumpkins.. Use Paper lunch bags and stuff them almost full with newspaper/scrap paper Have the children paint the outside of the bag the appropriate color (s) Use yarn or pipe cleaners to close the bag and add a construction paper leaf.. hang from the ceiling( it looks sort of neat) Try adding glitter to the paint for a shiny effect. I used this for pumpkins too and connected them with crepe paper streamers (vines) Neat?
9-9-00This one is messy, so be prepared. Using brown paint, paint the child's entire palm, fingers, and forearm to the elbow. Print the arm by rolling it across paper. After it is dry, use their fingerprints, painted in different autumn leaf colors to dot around the branches (hand) of the tree. This is a great way to show children that messy art is fun and after you wash your arm everything is fine.
9-9-00My idea is for apples. Using apple cookie cutters and paint. Dip the cookie cutters into red, yellow, or green paint and print it onto any light color construction paper.
9-9-00Paper bag pumpkin. Take a lunch bag size paper bag and crumble-up some paper to put inside. Tie the top with string leaving about 2 inches of space at top. Paint the bottom portion with orange tempra paint and the top brown (for the stem). Copy a leaf pattern on green paper and let them cut it out-glue or staple it to base of stem. If you'd like, you can wrap green or brown pipe cleaners around stem for vines. Also, you can give them different pieces of tiny black shapes to glue on to make a jack-o-lantern.
9-4-00Take a fall color piece of construction paper and make a brown tree with just the limbs, no leaves. Take puzzle's that are missing pieces and let the children glue the on the tree as leaves. The different colors and shapes make a beautiful fall tree. Parents love to see these every year.
9-2-00For fall, I have my children make wind chimes. We go outside and find things like pinecones, leaves and other fall related stuff. Then we take them home and they can either paint them or keep them there natural colors and hang them with different sizes of strings to a coat hanger. They really like making this and when it is done, they love showing it off!
9-2-00For fall, I take my children outside and gather pinecones, leaves or any other fall related stuff. Then we go inside and the children can either paint the things that they have collected in fall colors (which my children do) or you can leave them there natural colors. Then when they are done with that, I hot glue the items to different sizes of string and tie them to a coat hanger. The children have fun with this project and they love showing it off!
8-23-00Leaf Use contact paper (less expensive than laminated paper) cut out a leaf shape. Now use all different colored pieces of tissue paper or you could use just fall colors and cut in little squares about 1 inch sizes. Now press down on the contact paper. You may need to cut around the leaf shape, but you have a simple beautiful leaf!
8-22-00Go to a park and collect several pine cones. Use to make animals, decorate with pipe cleaners for arms and legs, and puff balls for tails.
8-21-00Making an inexpensive Fall quilt. In this lesson you can incorporate it with science, language, and even art. You will need 2 yards of fabrics, several brayers, fabric or tempera paints and leaves that are flat. Lay the muslin on top of a newspaper covered table. In your palette with your paints use your brayers roll a thin surface of color on top of a leaf. Then stamp in on the muslin. Let the muslin dry than have children trace different leaves with a marker. You can also decorate the sides of the muslin with trimmings.
8-20-00In the fall when we discuss how animals are getting ready for winter, we make our own "Squirrel Tree". First cut around one end of a paper towel roll about every 3/4" and fold out the sections to make a stand for the tree trunk. Glue the sections onto a piece of cardboard that the children have painted green previously. We then fill the "tree trunk" with acorns or other nuts we have hunted for outside. To make the tree top, we crumple a large piece of yellow, orange, and/or brown tissue paper and stuff it in the top of the roll. We then glue a few other nuts on the "ground" around the tree and glue on a squirrel cut-out on the tree.
8-15-00Leaf Glitter Art This is a great sensory experience and fun art project. First take a walk with the class and gather fall leaves that have started turning colors. When you have collected enough, have the children sit around in a circle and crush the leaves into a large container and them remove the stems. I like to do this part of the activity outside. The next day for my art, we use our crushed leaves. Cut different shaped leaves from construction paper and let the children paint them with glue. They can then sprinkle the leaf glitter onto the glue. When dry, shake to remove loose pieces and cover with clear contact paper. These leaves can then be placed on a large tree trunk or hung on a real tree.
8-15-00Acorn Man
5-20-00Have the child paint a large piece of paper with liquid starch. Place the paper on the floor in front of an indoor play structure or step ladder. The child climbs the ladder to a safe height and drops Autumn leaves made out of tissue paper. Some of the leaves fall on the floor, but many fall on the paper. (Please supervise the children closely).
Date: 2-29-00Explore Fall Colors! Crush fall leaves into a cup. Add several drops of ordinary rubbing alcohol. Then fold a paper towel into a thin wick and dip one end into the mixture. Wait. Slowly, the colors of the leaves will climb up the paper towel. Try to use newly fallen leaves, if they are too old, the activity is not as successful.
Date: 1-10-00Give each child a sheet of construction paper. Provide dishes of paint in Fall colors and various sizes and shapes of cut up sponge. Have children sponge paint their paper in any pattern they want. When dry trace a leaf pattern on back of paper and have children cut. Use as part of a Fall theme display. ideaMy idea is for Fall. I use blue fadeless paper as the background. I then put up a tree ( you can either make your own or buy one at a school supply store) The children watercolor paint ( yellow, red, orange, brown ) leaf shapes. When they are dry I write each child's name on the front and staple them to the tree or free " floating" on the board. I have the children paint some plain construction paper and then die cut the words, " Falling For Jesus" This bulletin board is so colorful, and pretty! Date: 11-13-99ideaBoil different fall vegetables. Use colored water to tye-dye tee-shirts with children. Date: 10-31-99ideaTime to Harvest the Pumpkins-or Milk jug pumpkins one milk jug with lid for each child. Put orange tempera paint in each jug, screw the lid on tight and shake until jug is covered. Remove lid and let dry. Add black construction paper eyes, nose, and mouth to the outside of jug. You can also let children use yellow paint to simulate a light on by painting the inside of the eyes, nose, and mouth. Screw lid on and add a green construction paper stem to lid with glue Date: 10-14-99ideaI work with twos and threes and my idea for fall is first you have to go on a walk talking about the different colors the trees are turning pick up treasures in a paper bag. Put the treasures in a discovery bucket let the kids put the leaves and sticks under a piece of paper and make crayon rubbings. no two are alike and the kids are proud of their pics. Date: 10-11-99ideaTrace the child's forearm and hand to form a tree shape. Have the children color the tree. Then use paint or stamp pads and have the children use their thumb prints to make the leaves on the tree. Date: 10-11-99ideaFor harvest season, we make Indian corn-- We cut corn-shaped poster board and staple brown and yellow crape paper on top. The children paint the paper with glue, then stick on "Kix" cereal. Looks neat! Date: 9-29-99ideaUse a few acorns to do this neat art project--In a shirt box, place a piece of paper. Drop in 2 acorns and a dollop of orange, yellow, or red paint(or all 3!). Have child hold box and move it back and forth so the acorn rolls from side to side, thru the paint. It will leave a cool print on the paper! Date: 9-29-99ideaCollect fall leaves with children. A great activity in itself. Make sure each child has 1 or 2 fairly soft leaves that have turned red/orange/yellow/etc. Have children glue their soft leaves to a plain sheet of white paper. Then with a 1/1 mixture of paint and water paint over the leaves. Place a piece of tissue paper, child's choice of color, over the leaves and have child paint the tissue paper with the paint water mixture. This can be done a second time with a different color of tissue paper. Let dry Date: 9-29-99ideaafter collecting beautiful fall leaves, the children made leaf people. e.g.. big leaf (head): med. leaf (body): small leaves arms): leaves with long stems (legs). For the eyes, nose and mouth, construction paper was used. Arrange the leaf person on construction paper, and glue ! The children just love their creation! Date: 9-29-99ideaMake a fairly large tree (trunk and limbs) out of brown construction paper or Bristol board (about the height of the children), and put it up on the wall. Have the children make "leaves" by tracing their hands, cutting them out, and sponge painting them red, yellow, orange. Let the children stick the leaves onto the limbs of the tree. (Could also use actual small tree and hang the "leaves" on the limbs) Date: 9-29-99ideaPaint with peeled corn on the cob. It provides an excellent sensory experience and a wonderful textured print. Date Submitted: 9-19-99ideaAfter showing the children Indian corn, it is fun for them to make their own Indian corn. Have pre-cut corn shapes, have them finger paint brown, yellow, orange dots on the shapes. Scrunch tissue paper for the husks and staple to the painted corn. Date Submitted: 9-19-99ideaMy idea is to trace your hand and your forearm on a piece of paper. Then you either get leaves or cut out leaves and glue them on. The hand would be the branch. Date: 9-9-99Date: 6-30-99Every year at thanksgiving time we make cornucopia magnets by using two food items; Bugles and Trix cereal. Just glue the pieces of the fruity cereal in the Bugles to resemble a cornucopia. Glue a magnetic strip on the back and it looks great on your fridge for Thanksgiving!! Date: 11-7-98go on a nature walk and collect leaves, discuss fall leaf colors. dip leaves in paint and make prints on construction paper. Date: 10-27-98Fall trees: for 3.5-5yrs. Talk about fall, how the trees look now and the different parts of a tree. Have children paint their forearm brown and then the hand and fingers fall colors and print on light blue paper. Show children how to press their painted arm down with other hand. Kids can do it over and over again on the same paper and make a forest! Have water close by so the children can wash up.Let me know how it works and suggestions on how to make it a better project. Date: 10-25-98Try painting with pinecones. Supply finger-paints in fall colors and use pine cones on finger-paint paper. The pine cones look neat when they are rolled in the paint, too. 10-22-98 Name: Marilyn 10-22-98 Name: Kathy 10-21-98 Name: wendie 10-21-98 Name: Rhonda
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