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Leaf People Fall Craft

By Shaunna Evans 11 Comments · This content may contain affiliate links.

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If you are collecting items outdoors this fall, this is a fun and easy leaf craft kids of all ages can create. It’s one of those “classic” activities that has become one of our fall traditions.

All through the year my kids love to collect items from nature,  but fall is a time when it’s especially fun to see all the different leaves, acorns, and pine cones falling to the ground. We come home with buckets full, and we always put them to good use.

We were also lucky that Grammie and Hoppie brought us some beautiful fall leaves from Michigan last year.  We used them for a lot of activities, including our leaf people craft inspired by this leaf man puppet.

Before doing this activity we read the books Leaf Man and Look What I Did with a Leaf! The kids loved seeing the images in the books, and it gave them a lot of inspiration for making their own creations.

          

FIND ALL OF OUR LEAF THEME ACTIVITIES IN OUR PRINTABLE LESSON PLANS
FOR HOME PRESCHOOL AND PRESCHOOL CLASSROOMS.

Set Up

To set up the activity we gathered some fall leaves, acorns, small twigs, paper and glue. If you don’t have fall leaves, you can also find packages of them at craft stores and the Dollar Tree in the fall.

Art with natural materials

 The kids were invited to make their own creations.  Lovey chose to create people this time.

Leaf People Fall Art

Other children might have chosen to make other creations, and that creativity should be encouraged. I’m excited to set up this activity as an invitation to create again this year and see what all of the kids come up with this time.

MORE FALL LEAF ART INSPIRATION: 24 creative fall leaf art project ideas for kids!

To extend this activity you could ask kids to make up a story (orally or in writing) about their creations.

PRINTABLE LEAF THEME LESSON PLANS

Save time and get right to the playful learning with our printable lesson plan sets. Each set includes over 30 playful learning activities related to the theme, and we’ve provided different versions for home preschool families and classroom teachers so all activities are geared directly toward your needs.

This set currently includes active hands-on learning ideas and the following printables:

1) Roll and Say Fall ABC Game (uppercase and lowercase versions)
2) Roll and Count Leaves Math Game
3) Small Leaf Cards for Sorting and Patterning
4) Sight Word Trees Activity Mats, Letter Cards, and Sight Word Cards
5) Color Word Leaf Cards
6) Leaf Number Cards (0-35)
7) Sorting Leaves Color Mats and Leaf Cards
8) Fall Leaves Emergent Reader (3 versions)
9) Leaf Observation Recording Sheet

GET YOUR LESSON PLANS

Home Preschool Leaf Theme Lesson Plans

Preschool Classroom Leaf Theme Lesson Plans

Also available on Teachers Pay Teachers.

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Filed Under: Art, Book Related Activities, Crafts, Fall, Kindergarten, Letter L, Nature, Preschool, Quick and Easy, Uncategorized Tagged With: fall crafts, leaf activities, leaves, nature-inspired activities

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  1. Rach D

    September 28, 2014 at 4:18 pm

    AWww….super cute!! Love these 🙂

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  2. Anna@The Measured Mom

    September 27, 2013 at 1:50 pm

    Really adorable! We’ll have to keep an eye out for acorns and brightly colored leaves — love this season!

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  3. Lorie

    September 26, 2013 at 12:07 am

    These are adorable!

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  4. Ann @ My Nearest and Dearest

    September 25, 2013 at 8:59 pm

    Such cute little leaf people. We’d have a lot of fun with this. Excited to try it!

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  5. Angela

    September 25, 2013 at 12:54 pm

    Love it! I want to do this with my girls this fall (they are 3 and 5). This would be fun to do after a nature walk and gathering little bits of this and that. Thanks for the idea! Come visit me if you have a chance! sunnysweetlife.blogspot.com

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    • Shaunna

      October 4, 2013 at 3:26 pm

      Great idea! Your site looks lovely. Thanks for stopping by.

      Reply
  6. Kirstylee

    September 24, 2013 at 3:43 pm

    Those leaf people are so cute! I love the idea to use them for story telling, too. I never would have thought of this idea, but it would be perfect for our fall-themed tot trays we have coming up. I’ll have to check my dollar store for some fake leaves because all of our leaves are new and tiny. 🙂

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    • Shaunna

      October 4, 2013 at 3:29 pm

      Thanks! Hope you are able to find some leaves.

      Reply
  7. Kristianne Rushton

    September 24, 2013 at 1:13 pm

    So cute! We just used our fall collections to make faces on paper.

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  8. Natalie F

    September 23, 2013 at 1:40 pm

    I love the creativity that can be unleashed here. Thanks for sharing with Afterschool!

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  9. Sarah @ How Wee Learn

    September 23, 2013 at 9:34 am

    Such a fun idea. I love how open ended this activity is. We made gourd people in a similar way – but this activity seems even friendlier to tiny hands.

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