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Kids Crafts: 4 Seasons – Autumn

26 October 2011 40 Comments

4 seasons scene

Welcome back to Kids Get Crafty and our Four Seasons. As you may know I have been working our the 4 Seasons with Red Ted since January. At the time I cut out 4 identical trees and then every 3months or so we made a new seasonal picture – using bubble wrap and finger prints: our winter scene, our spring scene, our summer scene and now, finally, our autumn scene.

I am so excited to finally see all four of them together. And it has been a really wonderful way to discuss the changes in the seasons with Red Ted this year. I think he has really noticed things around him!

The Book

Hodge the HedgehogHodge the Hedgehog, by Amy Sparks & Illustrator Benji Davies. A very cute cute book about a hedgehog who doesn’t want to share… Will Hodge learn…? Really useful for us at the moment, as Pip Squeak is right in the middle or learning to share. We love the illustrations and it has a nice verse.  Pip Squeak adores it. And loves saying “share share” over and over again (whilst rubbing her tummy?! I am guessing that the sign language that nursery uses must have a similar movement for sharing – we use a similar circular movement on our chest for saying “sorry”). Anyway. Cute book.

The Craft

As you know, the theme for our 4 seasons has been “bubble wrap” and “fingerprints”. So this time the bubble wrap was used to make beautiful Autumn Leaves both in the tree and on the ground. And with our fingerprints we made hedgehogs!

Materials: Paper, black paper (for tree, but you can paint one), glue (for tree), paint, fingers & a black pen

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Red Ted painted the grass and sky, he painted two of these. We then let it dry and the next day added the tree and bubble wrap.

4 seasons crafts

I let Red Ted and Pip Squeak do lots of “free painting” too. So they got the best of both worlds … taking part in a “structured” project and then creating their own pictures!

four seasons autumn craft

One of our little hedgehog went a little crazy with rather  large spike. Ouch! I painted the eyes, but Red Ted did the rest…

Look at the trees in the park the next day, Red Ted said: “Mummy! We forgot the green leaves! Silly Mummy.” Ah yes, our trees are not ALL autumnal and many are green and yellow and orange all at once.

And here they are all together!

4 seasons craft

I love them!

Red Ted: Aged 3.75years

Pip Squeak: Almost 2yrs

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40 Comments »

  • Emma @Mummymummymum said:

    They are amazing Maggy! I love the bubble wrap idea. xx

    # 26 October 2011 at 12:12 pm
  • Esther said:

    Perfect! All the four pictures turned out super cool Maggy!

    # 26 October 2011 at 12:13 pm
  • Aleacia said:

    Those are beautiful! I love them!! :)
    Aleacia

    # 26 October 2011 at 12:33 pm
  • Anna @ The Imagination Tree said:

    Maggy these look SO stunning completed as a set of 4! How are you going to frame them? Love them!

    # 26 October 2011 at 1:14 pm
  • Jen said:

    This is amazing…in fact I think I need to do this with my girls! Thanks for the inspiration!

    # 26 October 2011 at 1:18 pm
  • Rachel said:

    Love these! What a great idea, I’m pinning them so I can recreate it with my boys sometime.

    # 26 October 2011 at 1:51 pm
  • Red Ted Art (author) said:

    Aaah thank you everyone! Have been out today so only just catching up on comments! Thank you :-)

    Rachel, thank you for pinning!!!

    And now I need a theme for the next four pictures!!!!

    # 26 October 2011 at 3:38 pm
  • Rachel said:

    I remember seeing your first two pictures and instantly fell in love! This is such an AMAZING IDEA! The 4 pictures look so beautiful with each other! I can’t wait to do this with my kids this year.

    # 26 October 2011 at 4:01 pm
  • Red Ted Art (author) said:

    PS Anna – yes yes yes – I need to frame them!! Must get my thinking cap on!!!!

    Rachel – thank you :-)

    # 26 October 2011 at 4:07 pm
  • mermaid said:

    Love your four seasons pictures…made me thinkig that we should make the other three too as we have got the winter one already :)

    # 26 October 2011 at 4:59 pm
  • Liz Burton said:

    Bubble wrap painting is so cool, it looks brilliant!

    # 26 October 2011 at 5:04 pm
  • Julia said:

    The hedgehog book complements our hedgehog craft perfectly this week!

    We’re planning a stop to the library in the next day or two. I’ll make a note and look for the book!

    # 26 October 2011 at 8:01 pm
  • Maxine of the Magic Belles said:

    Bubble wrap leaves! Genius!! Cannot wait to try this one with the 5-year-old. Am thinking bubble wrap polka dot clothes could be cute too – thanks for the inspiration! x

    # 26 October 2011 at 8:28 pm
  • Maxine of the Magic Belles said:

    Eek… I’ve just noticed that my Rainbow Glitter Pumpkins have appeared 4 times on the linky!! I don’t how that happened… so sorry!!

    # 26 October 2011 at 8:37 pm
  • Red Ted Art (author) said:

    LOL no worries will delete it for you! Happens to me too.. in fact did that on someone else’s site this morning!!

    # 26 October 2011 at 8:40 pm
  • Mama Pea Pod said:

    Oh, how absolutely gorgeous are those! You MUST frame them!

    # 26 October 2011 at 9:34 pm
  • Vicky said:

    We did some bubble wrap prints http://www.messforless.net/2011/09/bubble-wrap-prints.html but I love your spin on it! They make perfect apples. I am going to do this with my kids and I will link back to you when I do.
    Thanks for the wonderful inspiration!

    # 26 October 2011 at 11:31 pm
  • Red Ted Art (author) said:

    Oooh Vicky, looks like LOTS of bubble wrap fun!

    Mama Pea Pod – yes! I am onto the case now…. ;-)

    # 27 October 2011 at 7:04 am
  • beth said:

    Your trees are gorgeous!! And I love, love, love activities based on books! I linked up here and wondered if you’d like to link up at my Linky Party at http://livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com/search/label/Linkey%20Parties
    ~Beth

    # 27 October 2011 at 4:01 pm
  • Red Ted Art (author) said:

    Done!

    # 27 October 2011 at 5:16 pm
  • JDaniel4's Mom said:

    Bubble wrap really works for all season! Great idea!

    # 28 October 2011 at 11:29 am
  • Michelle said:

    Too cute! Definitely pinning this!

    # 28 October 2011 at 3:35 pm
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  • Kerry from @ScienceSparks said:

    They are beautiful! Really creative and cute!

    Thank you for linking up to Science Sparks’s fun Sparks! :)

    # 29 October 2011 at 12:23 pm
  • SnoopyGirl said:

    Love love love your pictures. I really must try this with my kids.

    # 29 October 2011 at 3:06 pm
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  • Becky from babybudgeting said:

    Your pictures are lovely we have just bopught the card for our big autumn kitchen pic we are thingking owls ina night sky. will show you the results. well donr pip squeak and red ted x

    # 31 October 2011 at 7:10 am
  • maria said:

    I love your four seasons Maggy, and the bubble wrap theme across them all is really clever!

    # 31 October 2011 at 8:25 am
  • Sara said:

    This is so pretty!! Would love it if you would link this up at my turquoise lovin’ party going on right now!! http://www.sweetlittlegals.com/2011/11/turquoise-lovin-11.html

    # 1 November 2011 at 5:35 pm
  • Red Ted Art (author) said:

    Thank you for invite and done!

    # 1 November 2011 at 5:44 pm
  • Aimee said:

    I love how these turned out! Awesome idea- I just pinned it on Pinterest! Thank you for sharing this with us on The Sunday Showcase

    # 3 November 2011 at 12:53 am
  • creativejewishmom/sara said:

    gorgeous set of art! thanks so much for sharing on Craft schooling Sunday, it’s been wonderful experiencing all the seasons with you!

    # 3 November 2011 at 1:20 pm
  • Aimee said:

    I so love this idea, and am going to feature it this weekend at The Sunday Showcase !

    # 4 November 2011 at 6:14 pm
  • Red Ted Art (author) said:

    Oooh thank you! Much appreciated!

    # 4 November 2011 at 6:43 pm
  • Brooke@let kids create said:

    I absolutely love these. We’ve never done bubble wrap painting – and everything I order these days seems to be wrapped in other way.

    Thanks for sharing them with us on Monday Madness!

    # 5 November 2011 at 12:50 am
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  • Art For Little Hands (@art4littlehands) said:

    I love the artwork they did with these. The hedgehogs are awesome and I love the bubble printing. I will check out that book too. My kids always need a reminder on sharing.

    Thanks for sharing at Monday Madness. Hope to see you back again tomorrow.

    # 6 November 2011 at 8:13 pm
  • Isil said:

    I love how this calendar turned out,lovely!Thanks for linking up to book sharingmonday.xxx

    # 6 November 2011 at 8:14 pm
  • Ally said:

    Love the different seasons – how creative with the bubble wrap – and I thought it was only for popping =)

    # 15 January 2012 at 10:05 pm
  • Red Ted Art (author) said:

    A pleasure! We loved making these! (as well as doing a bit of popping!!!)

    # 16 January 2012 at 9:20 am

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