Five Ways With Autumn Trees

Over the last few weeks

We have been doing lots of art

Focused on Autumn trees

I thought I would share with you

Five ways that we have made pictures

Of Autumn trees

Tin Foil Printing

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Printing with Aluminium Foil is incredibly simple

But gives a lovely textured effect

Perfect in autumn colours for creating autumn trees

With rich red

Bright orange

Golden yellow

And Autumn brown

You can mix the colours

To give a bright burst of seasonal foliage

We used strips of foil

Scrunched into balls

We painted the tree trunk and branches

With brushes

Then used the foil to print the leaves

Super quick and super simple

A tin foil tree

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Cotton Bud Spots

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Painting with cotton buds

Seems a popular activity on Pinterest

Whatever the season

For me the autumn apple tree

Seemed a good place to start

Mustard yellow

Chocolate brown

Rust

Aubergine

Apricot

Again we painted the trunk of the tree

With brushes

Before printing the leaves

I love the look of the perfect circles

Spots of colour

Make beautiful leaves

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I am looking forward to experimenting with cotton buds again

With a snow theme for winter

And blossom in the spring

Our Autumn trees were beautiful

And I am still amazed every time I see Esther’s beautiful cotton bud owl

I love the way she used the tools to make spots and stripes and to create texture in her picture

Stunning!

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Coloured Card Collage

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To start this collage craft

I cut up lots of different coloured card

Some matt

Some shiny

Some with added sparkle

This time we drew our trees with Sharpies

Before sticking on the leaves

With PVA glue

My children LOVE sticking with PVA glue

And this super simple collage activity was a hit

And the end products were lovely too

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Keen to continue gluing

We made pumpkin collages too

Making the most of the seasonal inspiration

And wonderful Autumn colours

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Foam Stickers

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Another thing my children adore

Especially Esther and Bea

Is stickers

They absolutely LOVE stickers

These foam leaves from Baker Ross are great

So quick and easy to use

And they look great

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Esther had a great idea of using a paper plate

To give the shape of a bushy tree

I drew Bea’s tree for her

And she had great fun sticking on all the leaves

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This really was quick and easy to do

And quick and easy to tidy up too!

Great for a rainy Autumn afternoon

Cardboard Tubes

Squeeziung cardboard tubes

To give an oval

Leaf shape

Is a wonderful way

To create a quick picture of an Autumn tree

Dip the tubes

Into the coloured paint

Print on to the paper

And off you go!

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We painted our trunks and branches

With brushes

Adding definition with darker brown and black

We were really pleased

With how our tube trees turned out

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The squeezed rolls

Also make great petals

And we made some lovely sunflowers

Using our Autumn shades

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Here are our five ways to make Autumn tree pictures

How do you make yours?

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