Leaf Resist Watercolour

Due to drying glue, this became a two-day project. http://www.funathomewithkids.com/2014/09/fall-leaf-watercolor-resist-art.html
We introduced Day One with a Waldorf Leaf poem by 'This Cosy Life' http://thiscosylifeblog.blogspot.ca/2011/10/waldorf-inspired-home-school-themes_22.html
Then we collected leaves on a nature walk, looking at the different shapes, changing colours and identifying which tree they came from.
We then took a cereal box to make solid stencils for matching and tracing.

 Tracing an Oak Leaf

 

Once we had overlapped several leaf tracings, we tinted our white glue with red food colouring to draw over the outlines.

Day Two, Baby C fully immersed herself in painting!
Paintbrush, fingers, at one point, even her nose got involved!

O worked on using various colours to represent Autumn.

This turned out to be a fully loaded lesson, disguised as an art project!