We may be having some fantastic weather for this time of year but Autumn is in full swing and the parks are littered with all sorts of natural materials that are perfect to take home and use to make some masterpieces with your little ones.
After spending a good while at the park tonight foraging around and making the most of the sunshine we went home and got together a selection of twigs, leaves, pine cones, acorns and conkers and took a large sheet of paper which we used to create a colourful Autumn pattern.
Next up we picked the roundest conkers we could find, painted them in different colours then placed a sheet of paper inside a baking tray and rolled them around and around to create a really pretty pattern.
Being late in the day I couldn’t stand the mess of number five joining in with the painting so a made a tray up for him containing all the items we collected plus some play dough which he happily sat poking and pushing around while the others got on with painting.
This is a great activity to get the children interested in their surroundings and using art to explore different colours and textures.
Looks like great fun, I love using elements of nature in Monkeys play and craft – great pictures 🙂 #ToddlerApproveTuesday
Thank you, it’s cheap and great fun x
Great ideas, I especially like the conker painting and rolling them around, I think I will have to try that one! I am a big fan of the play dough too, my little girls spends ages sticking things in play dough! thanks for linking with #sundaystars
Thank you, play dough never fails to please does it!
The kids favourite was the conker rolling so I’m sure yours would love it too! Xx
I love this idea – we’ve actually just collected some leaves today so I going to get Sprog to play with them this week! #ToddlerApprovedTuesday
That’s great thank you. I’ve got my eye on doing some glittery leaves soon x
Thanks so much for sharing with us at #toddlerapprovedtuesday, you have some fab ideas for autumn art. I love the colours x
Thank you very much I’m glad you enjoyed reading x
That first photo is stunning! Love this activity, I must get the paints out again! x
Thank you, we hadn’t done any painting for ages before this!! X
This certainly looks like a fun activity for kids! A great idea to do over the term-break 😉 #countrykids.
I really is a great activity to keep them occupied x
Some lovely artwork, I love the conker rolling and some lovely leaf prints, this looks just like one of our activity hour sessions and as you say some real treasures out and about too at this time of year. thank you for sharing on Country Kids.