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Beautiful Watercolor Fall Leaf Art Activity for Preschoolers

November 3, 2017 by Sheryl Cooper

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Inside: Looking for a fun preschool art activity that also strengthens fine motor development…with beautiful results? You will want to try this watercolor fall leaf art. We add this to our fall theme every year!

You know when you’ve found a gem of an art activity when the children do not want to leave the art table.

 

Seriously! This watercolor leaf art has all of the positives – easy, fun, develops skills, and is a process art with beautiful results!

 

I know you’re curious, so let me show you a bit more.

 

fall leaf art

 

Beautiful Watercolor Fall Leaf Art Activity for Preschoolers

Check out how we used these leaves in a window display!

What you will need:

 

  • tissue paper leaves
  • liquid watercolors
  • pipettes

That’s it! Just 3 things.

 

Now, for those of you who’ve been reading my blog for awhile, you know I have this thing for pipettes. They are one of my very favorite fine motor tools in the preschool classroom. If you aren’t familiar with how I’ve used them, let me share:

  • Heart Fine Motor Activity
  • Water Transfer Activity
  • Colored Waterfalls
  • Watercolor Snowflakes
  • Pinecone Painting

 

 

Fall Watercolor Leaf Art for Preschoolers

Setting up this activity: 
Pour liquid watercolors into containers and add pipettes.

 

 

 

Fall Watercolor Leaf Art for Preschoolers

 

Place the tissue paper leaves on a tray.

 

Fall Watercolor Leaf Art for Preschoolers

 

Model how to place the pipette into the container of watercolors and squeeze, filling it.

 

Fall Watercolor Leaf Art for Preschoolers

 

Then, transfer the pipette filled with watercolors to the tissue paper leaf and squeeze again to release the watercolors.

 

Fall Watercolor Leaf Art for Preschoolers

 

Once the preschoolers get a hang of this, they will want to do several. They absolutely love this activity!

 

Fall Watercolor Leaf Art for Preschoolers

 

I love how the different colors blend!

 

Fall Watercolor Leaf Art for Preschoolers

 

When finished, crumple up the tissue paper leaf a bit and let it dry on the tray. This gives it sort of a tie dye effect.

 

Fall Watercolor Leaf Art for Preschoolers

How to use them:

  • Make a wreath! Cut the center out of a paper plate and glue the leaves on it. We love displaying these during our Thanksgiving Feast!
  • Make a banner! String them together and hang across the mantle or a window.

fall leaf art


 

 

preschool fall materials

More fall activities:

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Preschool Fall Fine Motor Activities

 

 

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About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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  1. Melissa @ Sew BitterSweet Designs

    November 14, 2011 at 3:34 am

    Great project! Thanks for sharing 🙂

  2. Deborah (Teach Preschool)

    November 14, 2011 at 4:28 am

    We will have to give this a try! They do look super cool!

  3. Ροδούλα

    November 15, 2011 at 6:11 pm

    Hi there Sheryl!
    I’m a music teacher, and I work at a nursery school, teaching music to 2 to 5 year olds. I LOVE my job (though it’s not like a job to me), I really enjoy working with little ones.
    It’s amazing what you can make with them, isn’t it? I’ll tell my colleagues about your idea: water colour leaves. Sounds great fun.
    I;m glad I “descovered” you.
    Have a nice week!

  4. cherib

    December 1, 2011 at 8:09 am

    ooooh, darn, I missed this earlier and now we’re into Christmas projects! hahaha! Now, I get to save it for next year!!

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  6. Carrie

    August 30, 2014 at 12:11 am

    OH, how pretty. I love this craft!! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!

  7. Sue

    November 5, 2017 at 5:15 pm

    I filled small spray bottles with water color and let the kiddos spray paint the filter leaves o the easel. They had great fun while building finger muscles!

    • Sheryl Cooper

      November 8, 2017 at 12:20 pm

      Wonderful idea, Sue! And a great way to use the easel during the fall!

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