Below you’ll find an easy, step-by-step leaf pattern drawing for kids. Your students will love using crayons and paints to create this fun art project for Fall.
Leaf Pattern Painting
This is an example of what can happen when you are able to combine two simple skills to make a leaf drawing for kids art project.
First, start with good watercolor paper, which gives you all that lovely painted texture when finished. Multi-media paper is the next best thing, but really, textured watercolor paper just holds colors like no other.
Next, you use what I think is the best watercolor paint for kids, namely the liquid type. I’m not sold on any one brand, they all seem to work fine. Dilute the paint as little as possible so the colors stay bright. Spill proof contains work great for busy classrooms.
Lastly, hope to have a talented student like this young first grader named Sara, who took simple instructions like “make lots of patterns with the crayons” and ran with it. Some kids just have a flair, and that was apparent with this young girl as soon as I met her. Over the years, she made many things that took my breath away, but this leaf pattern drawing probably remains my all time favorite.
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Leaf Pattern Drawing for Kids Coloring Page
Leaf Tracing Page
Materials for a Leaf Pattern Resist
Directions to Make a Leaf Pattern
Time needed: 45 minutes
How to Draw a Leaf Pattern
- Draw a long diagonal line.
- Add about four V shapes.
- Draw “fingers” around the lines. Trace with black marker.
- Use crayons to make patterns.
- Continue, changing the crayon colors often.
- Add more patterns until every section is filled.
- Add several crayon outlines around the outside.
- Fill the rest with crayon shapes.
- Paint over all the crayon lines with watercolor.
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