How to Make Scratch Art for Kids

How to Make Scratch Art for Kids


A enjoyable and effortless Fall leaf art activity produced by creating your personal scratch art paper inspired by the colorful leaves!

Updated August 2021

It’s that time of year once more! Autumn, when we can gather leaves of all diverse colors and use them for so quite a few crafts! Each autumn leaf is a work of art – a tiny canvas worthy of framing.

Here’s a leaf art project we enjoy, inspired by some of the stunning fall leaves we’ve collected.

Did you know that you can make your personal scratch art paper? It’s super straightforward and enjoyable! In this post, we’ll show you how to make stunning Autumn leaf scratch art paper, but you can also make spooky Halloween scratch art paper!

Fall Leaf Art with Scratch Art Paper

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Supplies

Guidelines

  1. Fill your paper with colour

    First, cover the paper with oil pastel drawings till the whole sheet is complete of colour. You can draw anything certain or abstract styles.

    filling paper with fall colors

    Optional: You can reduce this paper into smaller sized pieces, to make more pages of scratch art paper.

  2. Cover your colour

    Cover the oil pastel drawings with paint, creating certain to cover the drawing totally. The purple seemed like it may not work with the autumn colors, but it was ideal! And reminded us of the beautiful fall flowers blooming.

    painting over oil pastel drawings

  3. Add your leaf styles

    Finally, scratch your autumn leaf designs through the surface of the wet paint with toothpicks and Q-recommendations.

    fall leaf scratch art

  4. Optional: use a layer of oil pastels rather of paint

    You can also attempt a scratch art technique from Babble Dabble Do exactly where you layer black oil pastel more than the colored oil pastel.

    This certainly requires more time and muscle energy than a fast coat of paint, but as soon as it is on, it is a amazing way to make scratch art styles.

    coloring black over oil pastels

We suggest you make some fall leaf art with scratch art paper! If you make your personal scratch art papers, you can focus on autumnal colors (even purple!) or if you want to use pre-made scratch art paper, that performs just fantastic, also.

oil pastel scratch art

More Fall Leaf Art Activities

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Autumn Arts &amp Crafts Ideas &amp Supplies

Download our No cost printable notion list of 30 autumn activities for youngsters &amp households! Or check out the weblog post with the hyperlinks. So quite a few enjoyable suggestions for fall!

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How to Make Scratch Art with Autumn Leaves for Kids



Originally published in artfulparent.com