Preschool Art Activities for Fall

Autumn Leaf Place Mats

• Preschool teachers begin this art project by cutting one piece of place mat-sized brown butcher paper for each child. Give students four or five different shaped leaf stamps to use for their leaf prints. On their work table, students will also have red, yellow and orange paint-covered sponges to choose from. Students will use the sponges to get their stamps wet and cover their papers with leaf imprints of different colors. When they have dried, students can take their fall place mats home to use with their family.

Dried Leaf Collage

• Students need glue, clean brushes and bowls of dried leaves to create this collage. Each child will get a piece of 12-inch-by-18-inch construction paper in light brown or another fall color. Teachers will give each student a bowl of diluted liquid glue to use. Using the clean brushes, students will brush the back of leaves with glue and stick them onto the construction paper. Leaves may overlap to create a collage of many colors.

Dropper Art

• Teachers will have pre-cut large leaf shapes for students to choose from. In bowls on the table, there will be a variety of colors of diluted tempera paint in red, yellow, orange and brown. Each child will choose a large leaf. Using medicine droppers, students will drop different colors of paint all over their leaf.

Leaf People

• Give ach child a bowl of many different colored fall leaves to choose from and a piece of construction paper. Once the child chooses her leaf, she will glue it onto the center of their paper. This will be the body. Then, the child will draw a head, two legs and two arms onto their "leaf person."

Splatter Paint Leaves

• Students begin by taking a nature walk around the playground to collect fall leaves. When they get back to class, teachers will set up the art project outside. Each child will have a box top with a piece of blank paper inside. Students will choose three or four leaves that they have collected to arrange on their paper. At this point, give each child a spray bottle filled with diluted tempera paint in different fall colors. Students will spray into their box 10 to 20 times, and leave the paint to dry. After 20 minutes, students will carefully remove the leaves from their box to reveal the leaf print underneath.