Falling Leaves Finger - with take home craft idea

Have some fun exploring fall colors. Scroll down for how to make this into a nice take home craft

You'll need:

-Paint in Fall Colors (red, orange, yellow, green)

-Paint containers

-Paper

Directions:

Set up a spot with paper and paint in containers easy for little fingers to dip (so more shallow and wide). You can set the paper up a few ways. You can use a large sheet for several kids to paint as they please (like in an open ended art set up). Or set up each child with their own spot. Let them dip their fingers in and paint all over to be the falling leaves. You can show them how to just put color on with their finger. Some kids will enjoy that, others will want to get their whole hand in and spread all over- which is totally fine! The latter, most likely boys, might like the idea of their art as the leaves moving fast. There's no wrong way to paint! These would be great to hang up around the classroom, on the fridge, or for the large sheet- as a background for a fall bulletin board! You could just do red and yellow to create oranges, or maybe yellow and green to reflect early fall, then yellow and orange another time, yellow, orange, and red as it reflects outside, and maybe even red, purple, and maybe even brown towards the end of fall. Or all colors at once! Up to you!

Take home craft:

For a take home craft, you could trace part of their arm, their wrist, and hand/fingers wide open, cut out, and glue onto the paper to be the "tree" (use that brown construction paper that never gets used). Then set up the kids with their own spot to finger print all over the paper for the falling leaves. Make sure to put their name and date!