Inspired by Fun at Home with Kids fall watercolour resist leaves we decided to get our new glue gun out and make an Autumn/Fall watercolour resist leaf garland.
We were sent two glue guns (one low melt, which is perfect for crafts and younger children and one high melt from Glue Guns Direct). We decided to try the coloured glue to make the outlines.
Materials required:
- Card
- Glue gun
- Watercolour paint brushes
- Cord
We started by printing off some leaves to use at templates. The boys then drew around them on to a light coloured card with a pencil.
Then they used the glue gun to follow the lines and create a well for the watercolours.
Tip: Glue guns are great, but need to be used under adult supervision and you will know when your child is ready to use one. The glue gun that we used was a high melt one (we wanted to use coloured glue and the high melt one comes with this option). My boys are nine and eight and are becoming more proficient at using a glue gun, but I still remind them that they are hot.
They then filled in the leaves with water colours.
They used liquid watercolours (you could use food colouring)
They also used some standard watercolours too
We allowed the paint to dry before cutting out the leaves.
We then decided to thread them on to butchers twine. We used a large eyed needed and again the boys did this supervised.
If you like this then you can find lots more Autumn/Fall crafts on my Pinterest board
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Really pretty looking leaf garlands. Reminds of the pretty “torans” you can buy in India.
The finished result is really great x
So pretty, I love the colours of autumn.
looks fantastic! Baya would love doing this
Looks fantastic. I bet a wreath for the door made in similar fashion would look great for Autumn!
That is an absolutely wonderful fall craft! My son has never seen fall, so it’s hard for him to understand that the leaves change color and fall of the trees.
I am hearing a lot about glue guns – is it effective at sticking?
I didn’t know that you could even get coloured glue!
I’d love you to link up this with the Kids Co-op (which goes live at 5am in the morning).
Oh what a gorgeous garland – most definitely full of autumn cheer. x
This looks so pretty! Great idea to use glue guns to ‘trap’ the paint 🙂
#Pintorials
These look absolutely fantastic x
Those look really effective – I had no idea you could get coloured glue!
What a lovely autumn activity it sounds like a lot of fun.
This looks great and the perfect Autmmn activitiy – mine would love to make it.
These are brilliant. I had no idea that you could get coloured glue for your glue gun. #pintorials
This look so beautiful and fun to make with the kids. Will see if I can get J interested.
these look so sweet, I must get round to doing some autumnal crafts with Wilf! x
Looks really affective!
i really love your leaf garland! It is perfect and great activity for the kids!
i really love your leaf garland! It is perfect and great activity for the kids!
thank you for linking up with the #pinitparty
Love these Jen. The activity looks great, and I adore the colours.
How fun is that activity?! I love the bright vibrant autumn colours and I like the garland too.
I loved the Suncatcher (although I had trouble posting a comment), but these garlands are possibly even better. I’m new to your blog, but seem to have already found loads of stuff to do this weekend (weather set to rain on Saturday, so perfect) LOL
These look incredible! They kind of remind me of some really delicious biscuits haha. It’s such a fab way to decorate the room! Thanks for sharing 🙂 x
Thank you for sharing this post on The Sunday Showcase!