Leaf rubbing and paint mural. Lots of lovely leaves around to make beautiful decorations with!
Whooo! This activity was really easy and I always like the art activities where kids can work on one thing collaboratively. Especially something that is all about the process and not how well you can draw etc, so the three year olds were able to contribute just as much as the five year olds and you can't even tell which bits of the art work were done by which kids. It's just one lovely mural that they all had a hand in producing. I used painters tape to stick a big strip of butchers block paper to the kitchen floor. One that was done, the kids positioned the leaves with the veins facing up.
A few days ago we made some autumn coloured crayon cakes. The kids had at the paper with the crayons for about 20 minutes, all haphazard with the different colours. We ended up with what I think are quite wonderful textures and colours. And here is our fall mural proudly in place in the kitchen. Mini Shoji Screen Place Cards. Start with a double sheet of rice paper.
Spread thin layer of glue or Modge Podge on first sheet and lay second sheet on top. Allow to dry before you begin painting. Okay, before we start, I cannot stress enough that I cannot draw, paint or even color to save my life. Fortunately there is a fool proof method that allows anyone to make a semi-convincing tree. (Unfortunately, it was way more difficult for me not to include an inappropriate joke here than it should have been). Tree Black paint should be the same consistency of ink Take a plastic drinking straw and dip the end in the black paint and cover other end with your finger Release paint on rice paper at the point you want your tree branch Blow though straw, spreading the paint into branchy lines Once you have the main branches complete, thicken black paint a bit Take small paintbrush and add additional little branches and some shading to larger branches Leaves Add tinier, green splotches next to blossoms.
Craft DIY Projects, Patterns, How-tos, Fashion, Recipes @ Craftzine.com - Felting, Sewing, Knitting, Crocheting, Home & More. Quilling, the coiling and shaping of narrow paper strips to create a design, has been around for years — hundreds, in fact.
During the Renaissance, nuns and monks would roll gold-gilded paper remnants trimmed during the bookmaking process, and use them to decorate religious objects as an alternative to costly gold filigree. Quilling later became a pastime of 18th and 19th century young ladies in England, who would decorate tea caddies and pieces of furniture with paper filigree. The practice crossed the Atlantic with colonists, who added quilling to candle sconces and trays as home decorations. In all of that time, the process has remained very much the same, but quilling designs and specialty supplies have definitely caught up to the 21st century.
Today some aficionados focus on making incredibly detailed 3-D figures, while others favor wall-sized museum installations. Many arts and crafts stores sell basic tools and packages of multicolor paper strips. Materials Directions Ann Martin.