Fall is a time of transformation when the leaves change from green to bright reds, yellows, oranges and eventually brown. We transformed crepe paper into bright fall colored leaves on our fall tree craft. Crepe paper adds texture to this fun, easy and inexpensive kid craft.
This post was originally published on Aug 20, 2016.
We lived in an area for several years where we did not really have a changing of the leaves in the fall, no reds or oranges dotting the trees in the fall. The leaves fell in the late fall or right before the trees were to get new leaves in early spring. The mild winters we definitely nice, but we missed the seasonal traditions, like jumping into big piles of fallen leaves.
Crepe paper is one of those items that can be purchased inexpensively at the Dollar Tree. We often use crepe paper to celebra
Crepe Paper Fall Tree Craft
Supplies:
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- Crepe paper (brown
, red
, yellow
, orange) You could also use tissue paper.
- Brown paper (cardstock or construction)
- Glue
- Paper (This is for the background. We used blue cardstock)
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Directions:
1. Make a tree trunk from the brown paper. We made this by tracing the kids’ hands and arms on brown paper and then cut them out. After completing the project we realized we had covered most the hand. Unless you want to use the fingers as a guide for placing the crepe paper leaves, skip the tracing and just cut a tree trunk from the brown paper.
2. Glue the trunk to the background paper.
3. Tear small pieces of crepe paper, crumple the pieces, and glue to the hand to make leaves. As an added bonus tearing the paper helps kids develop their fine motor skills, which leads to good pencil grasp and handwriting.
I love using crepe paper to make this fall tree craft. It has a texture and makes a sound when it crumbled just like leaves.
Encourage kids to use their senses while making this craft. Kids can feel the texture of the crepe paper and hear the paper as they crumble it to make leaves for their trees.
Extend the Activity:
- If you are doing this with younger kids, review the colors used to make the leaves for this fall tree craft.
- Get outside and jump in some leaves. Who can resist a big pile of leaves!
- Go on a nature hike and challenge kids to find a red, yellow, orange, and brown leaf.
- Read books about leaves: The Leaf Thief || Fletcher and the Fallen Leaves || We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt || There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves || Leaves || Leaf Man || Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn || Pete the Cat Falling for Autumn
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