Leaves Watercolor Cookie Cutter Painting

Leaves are a great theme for the fall. We always have so much fun with them. There are so many projects you can do with them. I think that painting with cookie cutters is fast becoming one of our favorite ways to paint.

It is very open ended in how they want to do the project. They get to paint the leaves how they want and what they want.

This is a fun painting idea to look at the different types of leaves and fall colors.

The Leaves Watercolor Cookie Cutter Painting is a great addition to the fall painting and the cookie cutter crafts on the site.

What is Cookie Cutter Painting?

Painting with a cookie cutter is an easy craft for kids to do. This gives a template, and the results are loads of fun.

Leaf Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters

The Leaf watercolor painting is painting inside different leaf cookie cutters with watercolor paints. A fun painting and fine motor activity for kids.

You can talk about the different types of leaf cookie cutters and great fall painting for kids.

Book to Read with the Leaf Watercolor Cookie Cutter Painting

We read the book Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf. This has to be a our favorite fall book. I think we read it at least 4 or 5 times and do several activities every fall. This year is no different. This was the book they picked to go with this activity.

If you do activities with real leaves, learn how to preserve leaves.

What we used to make the Fall Leaf Watercolor Painting

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• watercolors
• watercolor paper – this is great for painting projects
• leaf cookie cutters
• large paint brush

How we made the Fall Leaves Watercolor Painting

You can see the steps below that we used to make the leaf watercolor painting.

Step 1: Place the Leaf Cookie Cutter on the Watercolor Paper

You are going to take a leaf cookie cutter you want to start with. You are going to place the cookie cutter on the paper. You can place it anywhere on the paper.

Step 2: Hold the Leaf Cookie Cutter and Paint Inside

You are going hold the cookie cutter on the top or the sides. It may depend on the cookie cutter you pick. You can see we are holding on the side of this one.

Then while holding the cookie cutter still we are painting inside the cookie cutter. You want to make sure to get the watercolor on the brush into all the different parts of the cookie cutter.

Step 3: Look the the Leaf on the Paper

After you finish painting the leaf, you pick up the cookie cutter and look at it. You can see that it is in the shape of the cookie cutter and might have some areas that are not all filled in. But it is a fun fall leaf.

Step 4: Keep Painting Leaves

After you finish one leave you can pick a new leaf cookie cutter or use the same leaf again. You are going to add more leaves and colors to the paper.

While kids are painting it is okay if they only paint one leaf and color. Let them pick the leaf shapes and colors they want to do. And you can have leaves overlap each other. And it is fun to see the leaves after they are painted.

Final look at our Fall Leaves Watercolor Painting

Check Out these Leaves Activities for Kids

Watercolor Fall Tree is a great fine motor activity while painting a tree. You use watercolors to make the leaves on the tree and background. You start with oil pastels for the tree trunk. This is a great mixed art project for kids of all ages.

Fall Tree Watercolor and Q-Tip Painting is a great mixed art project for kids to do for fall. You use watercolor for the background and tree and q-tip painting for the leaves.

Paper Roll Stamped Fall Tree is a super fun way to make a fall tree with watercolors, paints and paper rolls. Plus has suggestion of different ages for this as well.

Torn Paper Fall Tree Craft is a fun torn paper activity that kids can do to make a tree. You can use different colors of paper and make this great fall tree.

Fall Tree Leaves Painting is a great fall tree painting activity. This is a great fall painting with foam stamps for kids to use.

Check out all the fun Fall & Leaves Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.

Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com