Let your kids go wild exploring their creativity and adding their own personal embellishments with today’s Colorful Paper Plate & Paint Splat Tree kid craft idea!

Keep scrolling to learn more about this fun marbling painting technique and recreate your own paint splatter tree, with your child today!

Recently I decided to design a kids craft project idea that would go along perfectly with one of our new favorite children’s books Tree: A Peek-Through Picture Book by Britta Teckentrup. Hence how today’s paint splat tree post came along!

Through a hole in the book’s cover, an owl invites you inside to meet a majestic tree and all its forest inhabitants during the changing seasons. With clever peekaboo holes throughout, each page reveals a new set of animals playing and living in the tree—baby bears frolicking in the spring, bees buzzing around apples in the summer, squirrels storing nuts in the fall, and finally the lone owl keeping warm during the winter chill—until another year begins. . . .

As you can see, our puffy paint marbled tree craft is not only perfect for a fall theme BUT you could easily change out the paint colors in the craft, to represent ANY season you like {just like in the book!} Think shades of blues and white for a winter theme or just various shades of green for a more neutral look!

Well friends – enough chit chat from me. I’ll let you get to it! I hope you are inspired today and will create your own paper plate and paint splatter tree with your child today. You can find the full step-by-step below, as well as links to some of the supplies I used! And don’t forget to read the Tree: A Peek-Through Picture Book in honor of your creation!!!

Happy crafting, my friends! Please don’t forget to share pictures of your paper plate tree creations on our Facebook page to admire! I can’t wait to see what colors you choose to use! #gluedtomycrafts

RELATED KIDS CRAFT TUTORIALS ON GLUED TO MY CRAFTS: Burlap Leaf Owls – Fall Kid Craft and Paint Splat Rain Puddle – Kid Craft

Marbled Tree Craft Supplies:

* White Paper Plates {one per craft, small or large – I used a small for mine}
* Brown Cardstock
* Kid Friendly Craft Scissors
* Tulip Puffy Paint {in ANY color you like, I went with a fall scheme red/orange/yellow}
* Small Owl Stickers {similar}
* Hand-Held Stapler
* Baby Wipes
optional – glitter, sequins, rhinestones etc.

Directions:

* Please make sure you have a good working area that can get dirty because paint will squeeze out of the sides of this craft!!!
* First fold your paper plate in half {one per tree that you want to make.}
* Unfold and squirt some paint on one side of the paper plate {I like the Tulip Puffy Paint for this particular step since it’s in a nice controlled squirt bottle} Be sure to keep the paint inside the paper plate and not place too much down.
* Once the paint is down, go ahead and fold/squish your paper plate together again.
* Be sure to rub your hand all over the folded piece, so the paint will cover your the inside nicely {paint WILL more than likely squeeze out the sides, so be sure to pay attention to that and clean up with baby wipes!}
* Now carefully unfold your piece to reveal your colorful paint splatter tree design inside.
* To finish the Paper Plate And Paint Splat Tree – cut/staple a tree trunk piece out of the cardstock to the the center of the paper plate.
* Then add an owl in the tree to really tie it together!
* Set aside to let it dry completely before displaying proudly.
* If you like – you can also add glitter on top of the wet paint for an even more fun and sparkly look!

Love this Paint Splat Tree kids craft idea?! Of course you do! Be sure to also check out our popular Paint Splat Halloween Town – Kid Craft, Paint Splat Valentine Love Monster – Kid Craft and Paint Splat Peacock posts to continue this fun marbling craft technique! #gluedtomycrafts