Maple Leaf Art From Canada Is An Easy Craft For Kids Made From Paint and Leaves. What could be more fun?

Hey McAveler, let's show our little cousins what comes in the fall--the beautiful red and yellow we picked in Victoria, BC, Canada!

OK. Hey kids, listen up. We went on a nature walk and filled a little bag with maple leaves to bring home for arts and crafts projects.

Now let's use these leaves to make easy craft ideas for kids.

First let's make a Maple Leaf Imprint!

Here's What You Need

Crayon (your choice of color)

Computer Paper

Maple Leaf

What You Do

Place the maple leaf under a piece of computer paper.

Using a crayon, shade over the piece of paper in the area the leaf is under. The shape of the leaf below should show through as you shade it in. Does it? Try pressing down more heavily and then more lightly with the crayon. What happens?

OK, now try this.

Choose different sized leaves and try again using more than one leaf.

Try overlapping the leaves and using different colored crayons.

Great! Now let's make a Maple Leaf Stamp

Here's What You Need

Paint brush

Craft Paints (your choice of colors)

Maple Leaf

Construction Paper (any color) or computer paper

What You Do

Using the paint brush, evenly coat the bottom of the maple leaf with paint.

Press the leaf (painted side down) against the piece of paper.

Gently pull the leaf off of the paper. A leaf shaped stamp should be left on the paper.

OK, now try using different sized leaves and colors.

OK, now try combining two different colors to see what happens. Put a red leaf over a blue leaf. What happens?

Did the color turn to purple? If so, maybe you are a young scientist like McAveler is!