We have a forest full of fun and exciting tree art and craft ideas for kids of all ages!
There is Christmas tree crafts, Halloween inspired spooky tree crafts, Seasonal tree art and crafts and even a Van Gough inspired Blossom Tree art project – if you’re looking for an art and craft project involving trees, we have the inspiration for you!
Making tree themed arts and crafts can help Arty Crafty Kids engage their thoughts with the beauty of nature and the creativity of art, exploring different mediums and types of crafts to create something wonderful.
The different types of tree art and craft ideas for kids in this post will suit preschool and kindergarten age kids alike. All of our ideas can be tailored to kids of different ages and stages of development.
Popular Tree Art & Craft Ideas for Kids
Four Seasons Tree Painting | Easy Art Project for Kids
The movement of the sun drives seasonal change and its presentation within our four seasons tree painting aims to take the viewer and young artist on a journey.
From Spring, the days become brighter and longer until reaching a peak through Summer and Autumn, by which time the days gradually become cooler and shorter through to Winter.
Our tree is painted upon a backdrop of the Sun, with a shimmer of sun included within the Spring and Winter segments; the aim of this shimmer is to suggest a transition through the seasons.
This simplified presentation within the art project is perfect for opening up a discussion about seasonal change with Arty Crafty Kids and how it can be represented through color and symbolism within art.
Tree of Life Inspired Rock Art
To create our Tree of Life Inspired Rock Art, we followed the tips and tutorials within our good friend’s (Samantha Sarles from Color Made Happy) new book The Rock Art Handbook!
If you and your children love painting rocks, then this book is worth checking out. It’s jam-packed with easy to follow tutorials, inspiring ideas and the end results are beautiful.
Flow Drawing for Kids: Autumn Birch Tree Painting
Autumn Birch Tree Painting: If your Arty Crafty Kids regularly love creating their own little works of art with our flow drawing guides, then you’ll notice that our latest one is a little bit different.
Instead of focusing on using flowing shapes to create the images in the foreground, we’re harnessing that natural flow to build an expressive background for the piece that captures all the colors of Autumn.
Christmas Tree Art & Craft Ideas for Kids
Photo Christmas Tree Card
Looking for a quick and easy Christmas card to make with the kids this Christmas? With an added photo element, this adorable Photo Christmas Tree Card is fun and easy to make, and doubles up a special keepsake for parents, grandparents and loved ones.
The Photo Christmas Tree Card gives children the creative freedom to make their Christmas cards their own. Personalised with both a photo AND fingerprints, children can then go to town decorating their Christmas in their own special and unique way; making this a great Christmas craft to try with multiple children in a classroom or group setting.
Musical Popsicle Stick Christmas Tree
Children can add a musical element to their Christmas Ornament with this adorable Musical Popsicle Stick Christmas Tree craft.
This is a super easy craft to try with your child at home or within the classroom. The jingles bells add a fun and engaging dynamic to the craft, which can be used with your child’s favourite Christmas carols.
Fingerprint Christmas Tree Art
With the aide of a handy printable template, Arty Crafty Kids can easily recreate this gorgeous Fingerprint Christmas Tree Art project. Painted with fingerprints alone, their art will double up as a treasured keepsake for years to come and will be loved by parents and family.
Frame the A4 version and present as a gift this Christmas or download our Christmas Card version to send out to special family and friends.
Christmas Tree Pop-up Card for Kids to Make
Handmade is best made, especially when it comes to Christmas card making! Learn how to make this gorgeous Christmas Tree Pop-up Card with the Kids this season to pass on some festive cheer!
Using our simple Christmas Tree printable template, children can use their creativity to make the cards their own; adding color, drawings and a sprinkle of wow factor to their completed designs.
3D Paper Roll Christmas Tree
This 3D Paper Roll Christmas Tree craft for kids is fun and easy to make, and would make a great decoration for the Christmas dining table or within a Christmas nativity play scene.
It’s time to raid the recycling bin and pull out all those discarded kitchen paper rolls! This Christmas craft is super easy to make and engages children in the art of balance to create a 3D Christmas tree.
3D Christmas Tree Bauble
Use the scrape painting technique to create a colorful 3D Christmas Tree Bauble for the Christmas tree – A super fun and easy Christmas craft for kids!
This DIY Christmas Tree Ornament is so easy and fun to make; combining art and craft to create something very special for the tree. And while we have utilised the scrape painting technique to color our Christmas trees’, the template is open to interpretation and can be painted or colored in all sorts of unique and interesting ways, and many different mediums.
Paper Plate Christmas Tree Craft
“Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree” – T’is the season of joy and merriment, and of course Christmas crafting! Today I have the best 3D Paper Plate Christmas Tree Craft to show you.
Not only is it 3D, with actual spikes and glitter, it’s also really easy and a great fine motor craft for preschoolers and beyond.
Baby Footprints Christmas Tree
The countdown to Christmas has begun and I couldn’t be more excited for it’s the season of sparkles, glitter and lots of crafting! It’s also a time to be with and celebrate loved ones. It’s a time of firsts. And if you, like me have a new baby in the house then you will want to capture the little things.
This baby footprints Christmas tree is designed to be an everlasting keepsake to mark that special first Christmas.
Toddler Christmas Trees
Here’s a toddler craft that’s all about the process and my goodness, our toddler Christmas trees have so much to offer! Exploration of paint and colour, playing with different materials to decorate their trees and lots of fine motor work to strengthen the hands.
It couldn’t be easier for your toddler or preschooler to make their own Christmas trees. With minimal set-up, it’s an activity where you can take a step back and let the magic happen.
Cupcake Liner Christmas Trees
Cupcake liners have become an unexpected favourite when it comes to crafting and the inspiration for these charming cupcake liner Christmas Trees came from my five-year-old, who turned stacking the cupcake liners into a game.
With a little imagination we transformed her stacked cupcakes liners into a Christmas Tree garland that hangs in our window. We also used a few as ornaments to decorate the tree, either way, we love them and they’re so easy to make!
3d Paper Plate Christmas Tree
Excluding a small amount of help assembling the Christmas Tree, this Christmas craft is entirely child-led and would be perfect for group craft sessions at school, preschool or playgroup.
My girls couldn’t resist balancing their Christmas Trees on their heads, so perhaps they could be adapted and used as Christmas party hats?
Twig Christmas Tree Ornament
How cute is this Twig Christmas Tree Ornament? Can you believe it can be made by kids and we’re not talking Big Kids. With a pinch of prep, these charming twiggy Christmas Trees can be made by little kids (as demonstrated by my three-year-old).
There are a few things that I LOVE about this Christmas craft (aside from the obvious cuteness):
- It’s easy
- Requires few materials
- Focusses a little ones attention
- Great for fine motor skills!
AND it’s inspired by Julia Donaldson’s Christmas must read – Stick Man. I have lost count of the number of times we’ve read Stick Man and when it came to choosing a book for this years Kid-Made Book Inspired Christmas Ornament series, it seemed like an obvious choice.
Fine Motor Pebble Stacking Christmas Tree
I am really excited to be sharing our Fine Motor Pebble Stacking Christmas Tree activity with you today. It strikes me as funny that this activity evolved from girls balancing pebbles at the dinner table rather than eating their meal!
Sometimes you just to have to go with the flow and actually, while they were playing there was some serious learning going on.
Cardboard Christmas Tree Garland Craft
This gorgeous Christmas Tree Garland Craft is entirely process led. Using the scrape painting technique to create a unique and colourful tree canvas, kids are free to decorate their trees using glitter, sequins, buttons, yarn, string and anything else they can clasp their hands on.
Depending on how you approach this activity, this not a quick 5-minute craft. It’s a fun and rewarding project that can be recreated within the home or form part of a lesson plan within the class room!
Halloween Inspired Tree Art & Craft Ideas for Kids
Spooky Tree Kandinsky Inspired Circle Art
The artist Wassily Kandinsky is a favourite here at Arty Crafty Kids and today I have the pleasure of sharing the third instalment to our collection of Kandinsky Inspired Kids Art Projects – ‘Spooky Tree Kandinsky Inspired Circle Art’.
Farbstudie Quadrate (squares with concentric circles) is one of Kandinsky’s most recognisable pieces and was created as a personal colour chart.
Kandinsky believed you could express feelings through colours and shapes, and claimed to see lines and colours while listening to music.
Spooky Silhouette Tree Kids Art Project
This spooky trees silhouette art project uses an art technique called scrape painting for its background views. Scrape painting is an incredibly simple, but effective art technique that is perfectly suited to this Spooky Silhouette Tree Kids Art Project.
Using just a little paint and scraps of leftover stock card, kids will have a blast mixing the colours to create beautiful backdrops, filled with interesting colour blends and textures.
Spooky Twilight Handprint Tree
My kids love the idea of Halloween and our Spooky Twilight Handprint Tree is designed to capture those gorgeous Autumn red, purple and organge hues within a spooky, but not too spooky Halloween theme.
I love that our Halloween craft for kids is more cute than spooky and I think it would a great craft try at preschool. The handprint element adds a nice seasonal keepsake sentiment too!
Spooky Tree Circle Art
Spooky Tree Circle Art explores warm and cool colours to create a spooky twilight scene. A simple Art Project for kids to try this Halloween and for ease, includes a FREE printable template!
Enjoy at home or within a group setting, the template is open enough for children to add their own unique twist and indulge in their creativity.
Seasonal Tree Art & Craft Ideas for Kids
Winter Tree Art Project with Sponge Painting
Learn how to recreate this stunning Winter Tree Art Project with your Arty Crafty Kids!
Sponge painting, doodling, cutting, sticking and 3D effects to create a gorgeous winter landscape – this art project has it all and can be adapted to suit children of all ages, from preschool to elementary and beyond!
Children will learn how to create interesting painting effects with a sponge, which is contrasted with brush painting, splatters and printed spots.
3D Paper Autumn Tree Craft with Changing Fall Leaves
Our 3D Paper Autumn Tree Craft is wonderful craft and tool for learning about the natural process of color change that occurs during fall.
This is a craft that will inspire conversations about why the tree leaves change color during the Autumn season; combining learning with creativity to give children the opportunity to interpret what they see in the natural world within their craft.
Four Season Handprint Tree
Following the success of our crazy popular Autumn Handprint Tree, we’ve been working our way through the seasons to create a Four Season collection of Handprint Trees. The response to our handprint trees has been amazing and I’ve loved seeing the stream of handprint trees from arty crafty kids across the world!
Together these crafts beautifully present the colour transition of seasonal change and this craft has been a fantastic way for my kids to translate their observations into art. You will notice that each of the trees display various shades of colours and on a very basic level, it’s an opportunity for kids to explore colour mixing e.g. making shades of green and pink lighter/darker, as well as creating autumn shades.
