Autumn Tree Craft

DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Autumn Tree Craft

Contributed by Leanne Guenther

There are variations on this craft depending on which templates you print and how messy you want to get.  You can either:

  1. Print the Trunk and the Leaves and paste them together.  (Like the picture to the right.)
  2. craft instructionsprint the Leaves and decorate a "homemade" trunk (to make the trunk, trace your child's arm from the elbow up, including the fingers, like the picture to the right.)
  3. Print the trunk and decorate with "handprint" leaves (fingerpaint)
  4. Fall tree craft with real fall leavesYou can also go outside and collect real fall leaves and paste those on like the picture to the right.

Materials:

Instructions:

Craft Templates:

Leaves Template    (color)   or   (B&W)

Trunk Template      (color)   or   (B&W)

 

Printable version of these instructions

 

 

autumn poetryA Child's Calendar - November poem by John Updike