Looking for cheap and easy crafts or activities for kids? You don’t need fancy supplies or a big budget to keep little hands busy! Some of the best projects can be made with things you already have at home. This simple nature craft is perfect for keeping kids entertained, is super low prep, can be made over and over again, and doesn’t require a trip to the craft store.
This beautiful tree craft is a fun way for kids to bring a little bit of the outdoors inside! Simply print the free tree trunk template and let toddlers, preschoolers, and older kids decorate the branches with leaves, flowers, grass, and other treasures collected outside. Change up the colors and foliage to create a colorful tree for spring, summer, fall, or even winter.
How To Make Nature Trees For Any Season
- Looking for a craft with very little prep? Simply print our FREE PDF Tree Trunk Template on white cardstock and you’re ready to start! Or, let kids get extra creative by drawing, painting, or cutting out their very own unique tree trunk with construction paper.
- Now for the fun part—head outdoors! Let the kids hunt for colorful leaves, flowers, grass, and other little nature treasures to decorate their trees. Explore the backyard, take a walk around the neighborhood, or turn a trip to the park into a mini nature scavenger hunt.
- Once you’ve collected your foliage, grab the craft glue and let the kids arrange their nature finds on the branches. Print a few extra tree trunks so they can create several unique designs!
One of the best things about this craft is that you can make it anytime the weather permits an outdoor adventure. Decorate a spring tree with flowers and fresh green leaves, make a bright summer tree with colorful blooms, or collect red, orange, and yellow leaves for a stunning fall tree. Every trip outside brings something new to use!
It’s also an easy activity for kids of all ages, from little ones to older kids who can create more detailed designs. There are no rules and no need to make the perfect tree! Just print the template, head outdoors, and let the kids turn their favorite nature finds into a one-of-a-kind piece of art.
Here’s another idea!
There are so many fun ways to decorate your tree and make it unique. Kids can fill the branches with dabs of colorful paint, torn construction paper, crumpled tissue paper, craft pom-poms, or whatever supplies you have on hand. You can even decorate the background with a bright blue sky, a little sunshine, some puffy clouds, soaring birds, butterflies, grass, or flowers to create a complete nature scene.
If you love this creative nature craft, be sure to check out these fun Nature Boards! It’s a similar activity for kids using simple scraps of cardboard that they can decorate with leaves and flowers after a fun day outside collecting goodies and pulling your weeds.
