​This artwork looks so complicated and detailed, but it’s not. It’s so easy to create the detailed leaves with a simple plastic dish brush, and to help with the tree, we have a free Tree Outline Template with our printable PDF of this lesson plan.

You Will Need:

• ​Use an old dish brush for painting leaves
• Print the Free Tree Template
• Paint: Thick quality paint.  SuperTempera or Student Acrylic are both ideal for this.
• Old Plastic Dish Brush
• Spare sheets of paper for testing.
• Shallow paint trays or old plastic container lids.
• Paintbrushes
• Black marker for details, if required.

​Let’s Get Started:

Print off the Free Template of the tree trunk.

Pour a little paint onto your paint tray or plastic container lids.  You will only need a small amount.  If you are painting autumn colours, use yellow, orange and deep yellow.  Otherwise, use green and leaf green for the tree leaves.

Use a pressing stamping action with the brush to get the leaves effect on the branches of the tree.  Try testing on a spare sheet of paper until you are happy 
with the consistency of the paint.

When you have finished the leaves, paint the trunk and showing branches with a paintbrush.
Once dried, you can use a black marker for highlights.   

Free PDF Template:
The template is on page 2.

Try this fun painting technique using string soaked in paint and pulling them across paper to create amazing colourful effects.  Simple colourful fun that is ideal to please kids of many different ages.

This is a very effective and easy activity.