Autumn Leaf Watercolor Salt Painting Craft

Create a stunning leaf craft with this fun watercolor salt painting project for Autumn! In this fun fall leaf art you will use a variety of common art materials to make multi-colored, dimmentional easy fall crafts. This leaf art for kindergarten, preschool, pre-k, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders is a great way to bring all the lovely colors inside! Simply print the leaf template and you are ready to make a gorgeous fall leaf art!

Watercolor salt painting

Water color paint may seem basic, but you can create some truly stunning art projects using this cheap and simple art medium. In this watercolor salt painting you will use it to create stunning leaf crafts in brillant red, orange, yellow, and more! This fall leaf crafts for preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, and grade 3 studnets is perfect for at home or in the classroom as it is an easy fall craft. Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will want to try this pretty fall leaves craft. So set aside some time to make this autumn leaves craft.

Leaf Craft

Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> _________ <<. The free printable leaf template pdf file will open in a new window for you to save your freebie. Now print off  the pages.

Autumn Craft

This leaf craft ideas requires only a couple simple materials you probably already have on hand:

• Print the free leaf printable template
• salt
• liquid school glue
• watercolor paint in red, yellow, orange, etc.
• markers

Leaf art for kindergarten

Use liquid school glue to trace the black lines of each leaf – outline the leaf and trace the veins and stem.

Easy Fall Crafts

Now sprinkle salt over the entire project. After a couple seconds, hold up the paper over a garbage can to remove any loose salt that hasn’t bonded to the glue.

Fall Leaf Art

Get your paintbrush wet and dip in watercolor paint. Now gently, barely touch the salt to let the watercolor diffuse onto the salt.

Leaf Craft Ideas

Continue adding fall colors to the salt slowly and carefully until you’ve colored all the salt on your page.

Fall leaf crafts for preschoolers

Now use markers like Mr Sketch markers to add color to the white places in the laves to add depth and dimmention to the pretty fall leaves.

HINT: When we do this project again, I would start with adding color so your markers don’t get salt on them and you can more freely apply the color.

Fall Leaves Craft

Continue coloring all the leaves until they are filled with color. Aren’t they just so cheery!  Everyone’s project will be different and unique – I love that!

Autumn Leaves Craft

This step is optional, but to make each piece dramatic leaf art, you can cut out the leaves and paste them onto a black piece of cardstock or construction paper.

Isn’t that so pretty? I love that this simple and easy-to-make fall craft produces such stunning, dramatic effects! Kids of all ages will beg to try this fall art project!

Leaf Crafts for Kids

Looking for more fun fall craft projects? Check out these fun ideas:

• Autumn Watercolor Salt Painting Leaf Craft
• Crayon Resist Fall Leaf Art
• EASY Fall Leaf Crafts for Preschoolers
• Stunning Suncatcher Fall Leaves Craft for Preschoolers and Kids
• Lots of Fall Crafts for kids of all ages

 

 

Fall Activities

• Scarecrow CVC Word Fall Activities for Kindergarten, FREE Fall Worksheets for Kindergarten , Printable Scarecrow Pronoun Game, Scarecrow Worksheets Pack, and Learning Colors Printable Fall Games
• Fall Sequencing Cards and  Sequencing Worksheets and Letter Matching Leaf Printable Activity
• Fall Worksheets Pack, Fall Theme or  Fall Theme Preschool, and Cute Fall Playdough Mats
• Fall Do a Dot Printables. Color Word Fall Worksheets, and Simple Fall Coloring Pages
• Fall Books for Preschoolers,these fall picture books, or these fall books for kids
• Counting Fall Worksheets for Preschoolers, Fall Playdough Mats – Counting Leaves
• Skip Counting Fall Math Worksheets, My Fall Counting Book – Fall Activity for Kindergarten
• Fall Nubmer Words Donut Worksheets, Fall Counting Book for Pre-K, Acorn Counting Game
• Multiplication Candy Corn Math  or  Addition/Subtraction Candy Corn Math Puzzles or Candy Corn Fall Math Number Puzzles, and Count and Clip Fall Math Activities for Preschoolers (or this pumpkin set)
• Fall Math Counting Crows Activity, Addition Fall Worksheets with Stickers (sticker alphabet fall worksheets or number recognition fall worksheets or color recognition fall worksheets)
• Fall Activities sorting pretty leaves by shape, Printable Fall Number Game for Preschoolers
• Fall Color by Number, Number Tracing Fall Worksheets, and Alphabet Fall Printable
• Scarecrow Short O Words Printable, Fall Sight Words Game, and Candy Corn Math  Fall Activities for Kindergarten plus Nonsense Words Fall Activities for Kindergarten
• Color by Letter Fall Worksheets, Squirrel Fall Worksheets for kids and Cute Fall Worksheets for Preschoolers
• Nature Fall Scavenger Hunt or this Fall Leaf Scavenger Hunt plus Beginning Blends Fall Activity
• Syllable Clip Cards Fall Activity for Kindergarten, Free Fall Writing Prompts
• Leaf Alphabet Letters Matching Activity, Color Words Fall Emergent Reader, and Fall Science ideas for kids
• EASY Why do Leaves Change Color Experiment, Fall I Spy Printable, and September Activities for Kids