What better way to ring in the Fall season with a really fun art leaves activity! 

This leaf painting activity was so easy to put together and lots of fun! 

My LO had so much fun painting leaves with these faux leaf items. 

There was one supply tool we used to DIY a handle and it was none other than a – clothespin! 

How easy peasy and cool is that? 

I’ll share below all that we used for this fall leaves painting and how you can try it out at home too! 

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Supplies

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• Faux Leaves

• Clothespins 

• Pom Poms (optional)

• A long white paper roll set out on a table

• The containers we used to add the paint to (optional)

That is really all you will need for this easy painting leaf activity! 

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How to do a leaf painting activity .. 

There’s really not much to it and it is so easy to put together, yay! 🙂 

I will show you how easy this is to put together: 

Here are the steps we took for this painting leaves activity: 

•  Lay out a paper roll onto a table. 

• Then, add tempera paint to a plate and set those on the table. 

• Attach a clothespin to each of the faux leaves.

• Dip the faux leaf clothespin onto the paint in the plate and dab it onto the white paper roll! 

You can even go as far as drawing a tree trunk beforehand and your LO can dab on leaves on the drawn out tree trunk! 

How fun is that? 

Toddlers painting with nature

Where we live there aren’t many Fall leaves outdoors, so the next best thing are faux leaves which are really neat! 

But, if you do happen to live in a place that has fallen leaves, then those would also work really well as leaf paintings! 

Painting of leaves can be brought forth in so many ways and can be so much fun. Here are some Autumn Painting Ideas: 

• Paintings of fall trees 

• Preschool leaf art: Leaf impression activity

• Leaf scratch activity 

• Flower painting with leaves

• Art leaves for learning about colors

• Nature art for toddlers

• Autumn leaf prints

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Fall painting crafts

Another fun way to create a fall painting with leaves is to use pom poms with a clothespin in place of a leaf. 

Pom poms and cotton balls are also a really neat DIY tool for using for crafts such as leaves painting crafts or any fall painting ideas. 

What other fun fall painting ideas can you think of or that maybe you have tried with your littles? 

Have you tried paintings of fall trees before? How did it go? 

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