Easy Fall Craft Ideas for Kids: Leafy Brush Art

Welcome to a fun, simple and new autumn craft. Also, this will be a wonderful craft that children will love the most. Therefore, don’t forget to experience this craft with your children this autumn. This is a great way to teach kids the colors of autumn leaves. So, get ready to check out another beautiful craft from our Fall Craft Ideas.

🍂 Fall Craft Ideas for Kids: What Is Leafy Brush Art?

This time, we bring you a different kind of craft from Fall Craft Ideas. This craft is made with a paper paintbrush and paper autumn leaves. It gives you the idea of ​​coloring autumn leaves with a paintbrush. So this craft is very creative. Moreover, it can be done with a few simple activities like cutting, coloring, and gluing. Therefore, Even young children can easily get involved in this craft.

So, children only need a few easily available materials to create this craft. In addition to having fun, children can also gain various learning opportunities from this craft.

📄 What You’ll Need:

• Printed Leafy Brush Art PDF (includes brush page and leaf templates)
• Colored paper strip
• Crayons, markers, or colored pencils
• Child-safe scissors
• Glue stick or white glue
• Optional: cotton swabs or fingertips for ink dots
• A flat surface to work on

🎨 Fall Craft Ideas for Kids: Step-by-Step Instructions:

Once you have prepared the materials provided above, you can start creating by following the steps below.

1. Print the Templates

On this page, we will provide you with the templates you need to create for free. The templates you will receive are,

• A paintbrush page with space to glue leaves
• Leaf outlines ready to color and cut

We have prepared all these templates in A4 size. So you can print these templates on white A4 size printing paper. Also, use the PDF file below to print. Then you can get a clear set of templates.

**** Click here to get the free PDF template: Download

2. Color the brush and Leaves

Get a coloring medium that is suitable and easy for children to use. Crayons, markers, and colored pencils are best for this. Next, distribute the templates you printed among the children. Then, instruct the children to color the autumn leaves and the brush on the templates. They can use their favorite color for the brush. But when coloring the autumn leaves, guide the children to use autumn colors. That is, children can use autumn colors such as red, brown, yellow, and orange.

3. Cut Out the Leaves

Now take the colorful autumn leaf templates. Then carefully cut around the autumn leaves with scissors. Cut out as many leaves as possible in this way. It is also important to cut the leaves so that their shape is not distorted.

If younger children have difficulty cutting, complete this step yourself. Otherwise give them the last page with the large leaves included in these templates to try cutting.

4. Make brush bristles:

Now let’s create the bristles of the brush. For that, take a colored paper that matches the color of the brush bristles. That is, you can choose a color like brown, orange, white, black, or yellow for the brush bristles.

Cut a strip of colored paper about 1 inch high and 3 inches wide. (Adjust the measurements here to fit the top of the brush.) Draw small straight lines across the strip. Make them evenly spaced. Leave the end part without lines so it stays uncut. Then instruct the children to cut along those lines using scissors.

Finally, place the uncut part of the paper strip over where the brush bristles should be and glue it in place.

1. Fabric Scraps or Felt Pieces
2. Yarn or String
3. Colored Drinking Straws (cut lengthwise)
4. Ribbon
5. Natural Materials (like dried grass or coconut husk)

5. Glue the Leaves on the Brush Page

To do this step, take the leaves that you cut out earlier. Then they should be glued onto the brush bristles so that they spread out. Let the children arrange and glue these leaves according to their ideas.

6. Add paint Dots Around the Leaves

This is the final step. For this, take the autumn shades of paint in colors. Now you need to put dots in those colors around the glued leaves. For this, you can use fingers, cotton swabs, etc. as a support. It will add more beauty to your creation.

Let the page dry if you’re using paint.

💡 Fall Craft Ideas for Kids: Extra ideas to make your craft:

The following ideas will further assist you in creating this design. Use them if you need a more personal touch to your own design.

• Use real leaves instead of paper ones: This is really a great opportunity for children to connect with the environment. And instead of coloring, they can experience real colors. But it can’t be kept for long.

• Glue your craft to a piece of cardboard: Once you are done, you can glue it to the cardboard. This will make your creation strong and durable. Then you can easily hang it as a decoration.

• Turn it into a greeting card for fall

🌟 Fall Craft Ideas for Kids: Learning Through Play

This craft isn’t just fun—it’s educational too! Here’s what kids practice while doing Leafy Brush Art:

• Color recognition (fall colors)
• Fine motor skills (cutting, gluing, dotting)
• Creativity (leaf arrangement and design)
• Nature awareness (talking about seasons and leaves)

You can even turn this into a mini science lesson by discussing why leaves change color in fall!