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Home > Arts and Crafts Projects for Kids > Leaf Crafts for Kids
Below you will find many leaf crafts that will be a lot of fun to work on with your children. Use leaves to create arts and crafts projects such as pressed leaves, door hangers, mobiles, and many more crafts.
A cool way of keeping a leaf record is to make stencils of them. These stencils can be used to decorate doll house wallpaper, book covers, and an unbleached muslin tablecloth. A stencil is a pattern which is cut in heavy paper or thin metal. This pattern-design is made with connected openings. To make it too, obtain a piece of cardboard. Place a leaf upon it. Draw around it. Then draw a second line close to the first one. Next cut out the outline space between the two lines leaving connecting parts. Place the stencil on a piece of paper or cloth. Use thumbtacks or pins to hold in place. Outline the openings. Remove the stencil. Fill in the shapes with crayons. When stenciling unbleached muslin, use a brush to apply paint to the surfaces seen through the openings in the stencil. Fix the color by laying a damp cloth over the stencil and pressing with a warm iron.
Make Leaf Ghosts for Autumn - Use real leaves from a tree, paint them, and use them for Austum and Halloween decorations. They look like adorable cartoon ghosts.
Leaf Prints - Learn how to make these leaf prints...they make beautiful pieces of art.
Make Gift Wrapping Paper with Leaf Prints - Make gift wrap with leaf prints.