I feel like a successful hands on mom when my preschooler runs to me with bubble wrap in his hand and says, “We have to save this and paint with it later!”
That’s how fall leaf art collage came about.
We made bubble prints first in beautiful fall colors.
Henry started with dumping red, yellow and orange paint onto a sheet pan.
Then pressing his saved bubble wrap into the paint.
Henry transferred the paint to paper with the bubble wrap!
[He had troubles remembering which side had the paint on it many times... which made a big mess.]
Of course, some red glitter added to the prints make it a pretty piece of art!
Our bubble print art that we had no intention or idea what to do with it.
The last few days have been gorgeous weather here.
We’ve been playing outside a lot.
The wind has blown alot as well, and most of the leaves have fallen.
While we don’t have big trees in our yard, we do have some neat leaves that can be found.
Henry and I set out on a leaf hunt around the yard looking for pretty leaves.
This gave us an idea for our fall colored bubble prints!
A leaf collage was made!
While I cut leaf shapes out of the bubble prints,Henry added glue to another piece of scrapbook paper.
Henry stuck the leaf shapes on the paper.
Then some real leaves were added!
This gave the collage so much dimension as most of the leaves stick out on the paper.
[I did have to go back and add a little glue to some pieces to make sure they stuck.]
But this is the pretty fall leaf collage that Henry initiated with his bubble wrap request!
The bubble prints add a lot of color to the leaves found in nature.
Together they make a very interesting piece of art.
Beautiful art that fits right in with our decor right in our living room.
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Very pretty! I love the combination of the prints and leaves.
Framing a child's art work always makes them feel proud of their work. This looks terrific and festive for the season!
Beautiful! What a fun thing to do!
Aaah what lovely lovely colours. Isn't Fall simply wonderful? So so pretty! And I love the final collage!
Thank you for linking to Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy
Beautiful activity and you can see he loves it!
I love when kids art is displayed like that! It's really pretty too.
This is a great idea! We are just moving into a new house, so i'm sure i can find some bubble wrap in a box somewhere! And just yesterday we collected leaves from outside for another project that fell way short. I've been trying to find something fun to do with all the leaves we collected. Thanks for this fabulous idea! =)
They are great, I love the bubble wrap activity.
You photo's are beautiful.
Thanks so much for linking up to Fun Sparks. xx