Cherry Tree Painting for Kids
This Cherry Tree Painting is perfect for encouraging creativity and fine motor skills with your preschoolers this Fall. Learn about fruit, orchards, and trees with this fun painting for kids activity. You’re not going to want to miss it!
Fall is a wonderful time to learn about fruit trees. And today’s topic was Cherry, so we did some wonderfully creative cherry tree painting.
Cherries are known as a “stone fruit.” Their skin can be a variety of colors, from dark red to yellow or orange. They can taste sweet or sour. A cherry has a pit in the center.
Learning about fruit and orchards is a great way to explore nature and life cycles with preschool-aged learners.
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We used blue cardstock as our background paper and then made tree trunks and added pink cherry blossoms. Both kiddos had the opportunity to get creative with paint and paper while making this adorable cherry tree process art.
Cherry Tree Painting
What you’ll need
- Inspiration Photo
- Confetti
- Background Paper
- Paint
- Paintbrush
- Glue
- Markers
- Scissors
Here’s how to do it
Set Up
- Set out Inspiration Photo and additional supplies.
- Help each child trace his arm on brown paper.
- Explain that these outlines will become “tree trunks.”
Prompts
- What do you notice about the photo?
- What colors do you see?
- How else can you decorate your page?
Observe
- Does the child use the materials to create a collage?
- Does she use thumb and index finger to pick up confetti and apply it to the page?
This engaging and hands-on painting activity was a favorite for both kiddos and of course, it’s so versatile.
The little guy painted his cherry trees and then made his own confetti for the cherry blossoms. Baby girl made her tree trunk from cardstock and then painted cherry blossoms.
Don’t forget to check back if you’re interested in seeing what we’re up to next week with our Orchard Harvest theme from Experience Preschool!
