Autumn trees

We have had so much fun watching the trees change and it was great to make a poster to remind us of it.

First we used white crayon to draw some wispy clouds.

Then use blue paint for the sky (lovely for the children to magically see their previously invisible white clouds).

Use fingers for the branches. Biggest fingers first and then smaller and smaller.

Keep those fingers still when you do the print.

Lovely trees ready to be decorated.

Glue some sand on the ground and then start gluing on your leaves. Start with the green tree and work your way down, talking about how the leaves have changed and how different the trees look.

Spring leaves

The texture that was created by using the sponge to paint the sky was really great.

Then the girls picked some long grass to use as their "brush" to pain the grass.

We started with a really thick brush for the trunk of the tree.

And worked our way through the different size brushes to create all the branches.

The next day I made a small leaf potato stamp and we added just a few small leaves.

It helps having more than one stamp if you have more than one child wanting to paint.

We also headed outside to look up close at the small leaves starting to grow on the trees.

The next day we made a bigger leaf stamp and added just a few more leaves.

The next day we made our green paint thicker by adding some finger paint. We used a brush to put the paint onto the potato each time....

and got some lovely dark stamps.

We had a great time watching our tree go through it's spring change.

Our inspiration was watching the wonderful transformation on some of the trees in our garden.

Just beautiful to see how these leaves start out, all folded up and then open out and grow so big.