Yes, I had to do it! You know I have a fondness for our Do-a-Dot Markers and making Faux Tie Dye Creations with them so I couldn't resist making some fall leaves for our windows. They are FABULOUS & we love how they turned out!
What You Need:
coffee filters (these are a must have crafting item!)
bingo daubers or Do-A-Dot Markers
scissors
What To Do:
Cut out various leaf shapes (older children can do this for themselves if desired) from your coffee filters. I suggest having a few ready - once you start you will just keep going. These are pretty additive in my house. The Lil Divas love trying to come up with different patterns.
Take a leaf cut out and fold it in half and then in half again. There are so many ways to do this and the fun part is trying a different fold each time so that you get new patterns. We just have fun with it and I let the Lil Divas fold as they please.
Use your bingo daubers or Do-A-Dot Markers to make a design. My best tip is to encourage kids to try and saturate the paper so that the colors go through the folds and the bleed together. It creates a deep, richly colored pattern.
Carefully open your leaf - be careful not to tear the coffee filter.
Allow the coffee filter leaves to dry on a tray or other safe surface. Continue folding and daubing leaves as desired. Be sure to change your folds and designs so that you have a fun array of faux tie dye designs.
Display your leaves on your windows, walls, etc as desired. They look great!
We used Crayola Washable Window Markers to make a large tree on our window and we attached a few of our leaves. We love using these markers - they always wash right out but are long lasting on our displays.
The rest of the leaves we just taped here and there to our windows. Not having a real fall season here in FL, it's nice to add a few touches like these to our windows to make our environment a bit more fall like.
Looking for some other fall craft and learning ideas? Check out our Top 10 Fall Crafts & Activities for Kids.
How about sharing some fall books with your kids and/or students? Here are our faves -
Enjoy making some Fall Faux Tie Dye Leaves!
Bern
My preschool students did tie dye leaves. Nice concept http://www.brennaphillips.com/tie-dye-leaves-using-coffee-filters Your leaves look great, pretty colors.
ReplyDeletethanks for sharing Brenna. I love how easy this is for kids to do and yet how many fun designs you can end up with with a little creativity.
DeleteMy big girls made these this past weekend. Always a favorite. :)
ReplyDeleteAren't they Sandy!? Once my girls get started I know I have to have lots of coffee filters around, because they keep wanting to do more of them as they see each new design. So fun.
DeleteLove how vibrant the colors are! :)
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