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Home / Early Learning / Preschool Arts and Crafts / Preschool Fall Hand Print Tree

Preschool Fall Hand Print Tree

Shared by Mary Catherine 6 Comments

This fall hand print tree may not be something unique, but it’s fun!  There are so many options for creating a fall tree, but I finally settled on painting and using the children’s hands.  Preschool kids have cute hand prints, and I just love painting with the kids’ hands.  On top of that, it’s definitely a sensory experience when they get to use their fingers and hands to paint.  Yes, that does often equal messy, but that doesn’t bother me too much!

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The set up for this one is pretty straight forward. And I only used a handful of materials (I may get commissions for purchases made through links in this post). I grabbed some brown tempura paint, paint brushes, white construction paper, and baby wipes (for the mess).  Of course, seeing the paint, many of the children came over and wanted to know what I was doing.  Can you tell they love art?!  I called children over one at a time to paint their hands and talk about fall trees.  For the first few, I experimented with painting their forearms for the trunks — that didn’t come out so well, so I stuck with just painting the trunks with a brush.

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Once the “trees” had dried, the children came back to paint the leaves.  I set out yellow, red, brown, and orange tempura paint for the children to use.  Going along with the hand print trees, I had the children paint fingerprint leaves.  It was really entertaining to see how each child approached the leaf-painting!  Some went a little wild, painting leaves over every inch of the paper, while others were much more precise and kept the leaves on the tree.

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Once everything dried, Mary Poppins and I used the trees to create a “forest” on our bulletin board.  So cute!!

If you’re looking for more hand print art, please check out:

  • Duck on a Bike Story Retelling and Hand Print Art
  • Easter Egg Hand Prints
  • Hand Prints in Preschool {Beginning of the Year}
  • Hand Print Art for Thanksgiving
  • Child-Made Fingerprint Flowerpot for Mother’s Day
  • End of the Year Portfolios 

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Shared at The Kid’s Co-Op, Discover and Explore: Fall

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Preschool Teacher 101 has created some amazing preschool lesson and activity plans that will be perfect for your classroom. Click on the image below to learn more about some great fall-themed resources.

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Fall Trees Roll & Color
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Fall Lesson Plans
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Leaves Lesson Plans

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  1. Lorie says

    October 15, 2012 at 7:33 pm

    Love this! Happy to have found your blog!

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    • grok78 says

      October 15, 2012 at 7:39 pm

      Thanks for popping by! I’ve been having fun checking out your blog, as well!

      Reply
  2. Laura M says

    August 15, 2013 at 4:49 pm

    So cute! My daughter was looking at the Kids Co-op linky pictures and pointed at this one, out of allll the pictures, and said, “Look momma, a tree! Can we make a tree?!” So I think you have the official stamp of approval from a 3 year old and a happy momma! 🙂

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    • Mary Catherine says

      August 15, 2013 at 4:59 pm

      How cool, Laura!! A 3 year old’s stamp of approval is very important — thank you for telling me! Totally made my day!!! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Clarissa Hooper says

    September 18, 2013 at 10:29 pm

    Handprint art is classic fun- always popular with the kids and they make great mementos for parents 🙂

    Reply
  4. Portia says

    October 3, 2013 at 8:37 pm

    so cute! feel free to post to the Fall Crafts Blog Hop today! http://www.sugartot.net/my-blog/2013/10/fall-crafts-blog-hop.html

    Reply
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