Make a Magic Fall Leaf
Fall leaves have bright colors. You can make your own leaf with a fun art trick!
Things You Need:
- Thick white paper
- A pencil
- A white crayon
- Watercolor paints
- A brush and a cup of water
Step 1: Draw Your Leaf Use your pencil to draw a big leaf on the paper. Make it fill up the whole page.
Step 2: Add the Veins Leaves have tiny lines inside them called veins. Press hard with your white crayon to draw these lines. It may be hard to see the white wax now, but that is okay!
Step 3: Wet Your Paint Dip your paintbrush into the clean water. Swirl the wet brush in red, orange, or yellow paint.
Step 4: Paint the Leaf Brush the wet paint right over your crayon lines. Watch what happens! The paint will not stick to the wax. The white leaf veins will pop out like magic.
Step 5: Let It Dry Fill the whole leaf with bright fall colors. Let the paper dry on a flat table before you hang it up.
- veins:
- The thin lines that run through a leaf.
- wax:
- The smooth, solid material that crayons are made of.
- swirl:
- To stir or move around in a circle.
- magic:
- Something surprising that seems to happen like a trick.
- flat:
- Smooth and level, without any bumps or slopes.
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- 2What tool do you use in Step 1 to draw the big leaf?
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About this how-to / procedural passage for Lower Elementary
âMake a Magic Fall Leafâ is a how-to / procedural reading passage about Fall Leaf Watercolor Art, written for Lower Elementary. It takes about 1 minute to read (178 words) and comes with an interactive quiz and a printable worksheet with comprehension questions and an answer key.