Although it’s only mid September, my Pinterest and Facebook are full of fall and Halloween activities. I’ve been feeling a bit uninspired lately and seeing all these fall activities gave me ideas to try. I saw this activity for using handprints to make trees and thought it was perfect for Chloe.
The first step was getting everything set up. I drew the tree trunk with a brown marker, set out the paint and had a bowl of water for washing her hand. I also had some pieces of paper for her to paint while her hand prints were drying and for after she was done.
I got Chloe in an apron, painted her hand and we placed it down a few times.
I rinsed her hand off and painted it yellow and we made more prints. Then I decided that the prints should dry for a few minutes before doing the last colour. I gave Chloe a sheet of paper and let her play with the three colours (orange, red and yellow).
While she was doing that, I talked to her about how leaves change colour and had her look out the door and see our tree that has green leaves with a few that are changing colour.
After a few minutes, I brought back the tree and painted Chloe’s hand orange. We did the prints and then I moved it out of the way.
I gave her more paper to paint on and then encouraged her to get messy and use her hands.
Chloe loved this activity and wanted to keep doing it. I really should do more stuff with her like this…
For the love of Pinterest 