Do your youngsters love gap punching like mine do? There’s one thing soothing and satisfying about gap punching – to not point out it’s nice for growing motor abilities and strengthening little arms.
With some paper and a gap puncher, let’s go collect some freshly fallen leaves and make some lovely autumn “leafetti” (leaf confetti) mosaics. Right here’s how:
First, collect a bunch of various leaves – the extra coloration and selection the higher! Make sure that they’re recent and never dry and crunchy.
Subsequent, seize a gap puncher and get busy. Punch, punch, punch. Empty out the opening puncher intermittently right into a small bowl or plate. Now you’ve “leafetti!”
With a pencil and paper, draw the define of the mosaic form you need to make. We used black paper, as a result of I assumed the leaf colours would present up properly (they usually did!). Be at liberty to make use of white or one other coloration if that’s what you’ve.
You may additionally need to do a Google search to search for well-known mosaic artworks all through historical past, for some inspiration. We merely made autumn-inspired mosaics this time.
Subsequent, fill your form with glue (we used a glue stick to maintain the mess down), a piece at a time. If you happen to attempt to fill the entire paper with glue, it’ll in all probability dry up earlier than you get an opportunity to stay the confetti on it.
Lastly sprinkle the leaf confetti on prime of the glue. Hold doing this till you fill your mosaic, and luxuriate in!
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