Fall Sun Catcher

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The leaves are starting to change.   Golds, fiery oranges, and deep reds once again paint the trees.   All too soon this beautiful display of Mother Nature’s will come to an end.  So we decided to capture a little of this magic with a simple fall craft.

fall sun catcher craft

I had the inner circle of the paper plates cut out and the yellow tissue paper glued to the plate’s back, trimmed up and ready for little ones to decorate before I even called the kids to the table.  The tissue paper pieces had been ripped up ahead of time, too, by little hands that needed something to do one day.

preschooler fall sun catcher craft

We used paint brushes to glue the ripped up tissue paper pieces to the yellow backing, mimicking the mosaic of colors on the fall trees. preschooler fall sun catcher craft

Then we glued our paper leaves around the plate’s edge.  With older kids you might suggest doing this is a pattern.  The leaves could be put on facing a variety of directions, like they’ve been blown in the wind, or with each stem facing inward for consistency.

When they were finished, we had a little bit of fall’s beauty, right there in our kitchen windows.

preschooler fall sun catcher craft
Monkey decided to put a real leaf on his, making it even more unique.

This is a super simple fall craft for toddlers and preschoolers.

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Comments

    • Thank you! I think my youngest’s idea of sticking a real leaf to it was a neat idea…. Wondering how all real leaves would work on it.

  4. Sweet. My favorite when I was a girl was my mom and I saving leaves I’d picked up on our walks by her ironing them with them with a sheet of wax paper on both the top and bottom of the leaf. I have a strong memory of her at the ironing board doing that and the smell of the wax. We’d hang up the leaves in the window for decoration for a while. I hope your children have good memories of your crafts, too!

    • What a neat idea! I admit it, the only time my iron has been used is for crafts…. I think we might even have some wax paper around here to give that a try!

  5. Our temps are starting to cool and the leaves are just starting to give way to autumn. We’ll start to decorate this weekend and I can’t wait!

  6. That is so cute! I have some old and yellowing paper plates that would be perfect for this activity! (I certainly don’t want to put food on them. ;))

    • No, I wouldn’t want to put food on them, either, but paper plates are always good to keep for craft time!

      Mine made a couple extra to give to the grandparents as well.

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