Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Preschool Craft Project

Another one of the many preschool craft projects that we did with leaves we collected involved painting.

Painting with leaves is a unique, but fun preschool craft project that your child will likely love. Your child may be frustrated a little bit first, as the painting is a little bit harder to control, but it is still fun!

A FEW TIPS
(1) Smaller leaves are a little bit easier to use and less messy.

(2) Putting a few drops of paint on a paper plate is a good way to reduce messes and save paint.

(3) Paper towels or newspapers should be placed on the table, under the craft project, to make cleanup much easier.

Preparing for Preschool: Preschool Craft Project

Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Preschool Craft Project

Here is one of the many (lol, and I mean many) leaf projects that we completed yesterday.

What we did was take a simple sheet of drawing paper and glued a leaf to the page. We used a glue stick and then we placed a few drops of extra glue on the leaf, just in case. You may want to use the glue stick yourself, as some leaves can easily break apart.

Next, we turned our leaves into “Leap People.” All we did was draw arms, legs, and faces on them with markers. We also added a scenery in the background.

This simple preschool craft project was one that my daughter loves. She keeps on saying “That leaf is from my leaf collection.” It is too cute!