Fall Fun: Traced Leaves- Hair Clip

We have been exploring activities that use traced leaves as a starting point. Our daughter asked for some headbands for back to school and we wanted to make some interchangeable embellishments together.

Materials

* If you don’t want to use real leaves for the projects draw some from your imagination or use craft leaves as tracers.*

Leaves
Sewing marker (or use a white/ light pencil crayon & a dark pencil crayon or fabric markers)
Felt
Fabric scissors
Barrette clip (Buy these at a craft or dollar store)
Fabric glue or sewing machine/thread
Embellishments (seed beads, sequins)
Smock
Craft tray
Headband (we made our clip so we could wear it as a barrette or attach it to a headband)

Directions

Go on a nature walk and collect several different types of leaves.

Place the leaves on your various colours of felt and trace them. If you are working on a dark colour such as red, use a light sewing marker or pencil crayon such as white. For light felt colours, use a darker shade of sewing marker or pencil crayon.

Cut out your leaves with fabric scissors.

Flip them over so you can’t see your tracing lines.

We decided to sew around the edges and create sewn midribs and veins. You could do this optional step by hand or with a machine. We added a few sequins and seed beads for a bit of sparkle.

We then made a simple base for our leaves using a rectangle of felt. We sewed two of the edges of another small rectangle on the centre on the back so the clip could slide into it. (As seen in the photograph.) You could glue this instead to avoid sewing.