{"id":81453,"date":"2026-10-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/?p=81453"},"modified":"2026-10-01T19:29:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:29:57","slug":"fall-button-tree-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/fall-button-tree-craft\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Button Tree Craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fall Button Tree Craft is a fun fall craft made with buttons and it works great for the season of fall. You can see all the steps we used to make this craft.<\/p>\n<p>And it is a great fall craft you can display. And kids will love the different size buttons and colors. And this craft adds a little fine motor as well.<\/p>\n<p>The Fall Tree Button Craft is great for kids in preschool, prek, kindergarten, and first grade.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/10-2026\/fall-button-tree-craft.jpg\" alt=\"Fall Tree Button Craft a fun fall craft for kids with a watercolor tree and buttons for the red, yellow, and orange leaves. A fun prek and kindergarten craft- 3Dinosaurs.com\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Fall Button Tree Craft is a great addition to the <a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/fall-leaves-activities-and-printables\/\">fall crafts<\/a> on the site.<\/p>\n<h2>Fall Tree Button Craft<\/h2>\n<p>The fall button tree is a mix of painting and three, and then buttons to make the fall colors of red, orange, and yellow.<\/p>\n<p>A great fall tree craft you can make with kids. And only a few items are needed.<\/p>\n<p>You can make this fall tree with kids in preschool (ages 3 to 4), prek (ages 4 to 5), kindergarten (ages 5 to 6), and first grade (ages 6 to 7).<\/p>\n<h2>A Book to Read with the Fall Tree Button Craft<\/h2>\n<p>One fall book that we love to read is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Red-Leaf-Yellow-Lois-Ehlert\/dp\/0152661972?&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=8671ae70a2427a7b2500926c6fb48116&#038;language=en_US&#038;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\">Red Leaf Yellow Leaf<\/a>. It has so many great pictures of fall trees and leaves. We read it every year. It might just be our favorite fall book. Okay really it is our favorite fall tree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Red-Leaf-Yellow-Lois-Ehlert\/dp\/0152661972?&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=8671ae70a2427a7b2500926c6fb48116&#038;language=en_US&#038;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/red-leaf-yellow-leaf-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-71766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/red-leaf-yellow-leaf-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/red-leaf-yellow-leaf-1024x1022.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/red-leaf-yellow-leaf-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/red-leaf-yellow-leaf-768x766.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/red-leaf-yellow-leaf-640x639.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/red-leaf-yellow-leaf.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>What we used to make the Fall Tree Button Craft<\/h2>\n<p><em>We have included links to some of the products and resources we have used with this activity. If you purchase via the links we may earn a <a href=\"\/page\/privacy-policy\">small commission<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Canson-Watercolor-Cover-Sheets-White\/dp\/B09NQY86G1?th=1&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=1bc0a6942646d1a966ef39a92d605b17&#038;language=en_US&#038;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\">watercolor paper<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/AROIC-Watercolor-Different-Beginners-Children\/dp\/B08C7XF63J?th=1&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=ca5c6c8c2e392b90d0dbf9b125d821f6&#038;language=en_US&#038;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\">watercolors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/anezus-Brushes-Bristle-Washable-Acrylic\/dp\/B07PPKQZ7B?crid=1JKJBK6S3O9RB&#038;keywords=B07PPKQZ7B&#038;qid=1645438229&#038;sprefix=b07ppkqz7b%2Caps%2C54&#038;sr=8-1&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=2cc9578e76e03972f1a25d4dd1c7d10d&#038;language=en_US&#038;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\">large paint brush<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Washable-Liquid-School-Glue-Size\/dp\/B00T05RUEK?&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=1a73499f29cc31efb52246619bd36191&#038;language=en_US&#038;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\">glue<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B09P62XLLK?th=1&#038;linkCode=ll2&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=3d80ee2d8b68d400b79534265c09b3bb&#038;language=en_US&#038;gaOptInStatus=true&#038;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" target=\"_blank\">red buttons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B09P62G1WP?th=1&#038;linkCode=ll2&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=53cd002fb3158e86670ce88ac941e3e3&#038;language=en_US&#038;gaOptInStatus=true&#038;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" target=\"_blank\">orange buttons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B09P62GXBB?th=1&#038;linkCode=ll2&#038;tag=3dinos-20&#038;linkId=bf98e78fca76398cbd6bb571783c0a87&#038;language=en_US&#038;gaOptInStatus=true&#038;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" target=\"_blank\">yellow buttons<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We got bulk bags of buttons and they have so many colors variations and sizes. They are super fun for crafts.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/10-2026\/fall-button-tree-craft1.jpg\" alt=\"Fall Tree Button Craft a fun fall craft for kids with a watercolor tree and buttons for the red, yellow, and orange leaves. A fun prek and kindergarten craft- 3Dinosaurs.com\" \/><\/div>\n<h2>How we made the Fall Tree Button Craft<\/h2>\n<p>You will see the steps below that we used to make the fall tree button craft.<\/p>\n<h3>Step 1: Paint the Tree Truck with Watercolors<\/h3>\n<p>You are going to start with painting the tree trunk. You can see we used watercolors for this painting. And if you want to skip this step you can use the <a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/fall-pack-extra-more-fall-dot-marker-pages\/\">fall dot marker tree<\/a> in place of this.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/10-2026\/fall-button-tree-craft2.jpg\" alt=\"Fall Tree Button Craft a fun fall craft for kids with a watercolor tree and buttons for the red, yellow, and orange leaves. A fun prek and kindergarten craft- 3Dinosaurs.com\" \/><\/div>\n<h3>Step 2: Paint Branches In the Tree<\/h3>\n<p>Next you are going to work on a few branches in the tree. Some of the branches might show throw with the buttons. And it gives you an idea of how big the tree will be.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/10-2026\/fall-button-tree-craft3.jpg\" alt=\"Fall Tree Button Craft a fun fall craft for kids with a watercolor tree and buttons for the red, yellow, and orange leaves. A fun prek and kindergarten craft- 3Dinosaurs.com\" \/><\/div>\n<h3>Step 3: Put Glue At the top of the Trunk<\/h3>\n<p>After the tree is finished you can start but putting glue at the top of the tree. You can do swirls around for all the places that you are going to put the buttons on.<\/p>\n<p>And know that if you need more glue later that is okay.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/10-2026\/fall-button-tree-craft4.jpg\" alt=\"Fall Tree Button Craft a fun fall craft for kids with a watercolor tree and buttons for the red, yellow, and orange leaves. A fun prek and kindergarten craft- 3Dinosaurs.com\" \/><\/div>\n<h3>Step 4: Place the Buttons on the Glue<\/h3>\n<p>The next step is placing the buttons on the glue. We have a mix of sizes of buttons and this is super fun to do with kids. And you can see the how easy it is to place the buttons on the tree. <\/p>\n<p>It does not matter where you place the buttons on the tree when you start.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/10-2026\/fall-button-tree-craft5.jpg\" alt=\"Fall Tree Button Craft a fun fall craft for kids with a watercolor tree and buttons for the red, yellow, and orange leaves. A fun prek and kindergarten craft- 3Dinosaurs.com\" \/><\/div>\n<h3>Step 5: Keep Putting Button on the Glue<\/h3>\n<p>And just keep adding buttons until you are happy with how the tree turns out.<\/p>\n<p>Remember to let kids be creative with this project. They can do this how every they want and no two trees should look the same.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/10-2026\/fall-button-tree-craft6.jpg\" alt=\"Fall Tree Button Craft a fun fall craft for kids with a watercolor tree and buttons for the red, yellow, and orange leaves. A fun prek and kindergarten craft- 3Dinosaurs.com\" \/><\/div>\n<h2>Final look at our Fall Button Tree Craft<\/h2>\n<p><div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/10-2026\/fall-button-tree-craft7.jpg\" alt=\"Fall Tree Button Craft a fun fall craft for kids with a watercolor tree and buttons for the red, yellow, and orange leaves. A fun prek and kindergarten craft- 3Dinosaurs.com\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/10-2026\/fall-button-tree-craft8.jpg\" alt=\"Fall Tree Button Craft a fun fall craft for kids with a watercolor tree and buttons for the red, yellow, and orange leaves. A fun prek and kindergarten craft- 3Dinosaurs.com\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h2>More Fall Printable &#038; Crafts For Kids<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/free-leaf-fine-motor-mat-printables\/\">Leaf Fine Motor Mat Printables<\/a> has leave tracing mat, leaf template, leaf dot marker, and leaf playdough mat. This is a great prek and kindergarten fine motor activity for fall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/fall-tree-leaves-painting\/\">Fall Tree Leaves Painting<\/a> is a great fall tree painting activity. This is a great fall painting with foam stamps for kids to use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/watercolor-fall-tree\/\">Watercolor Fall Tree<\/a> is a great fine motor activity while painting a tree. You use watercolors to make the leaves on the tree and background. You start with oil pastels for the tree trunk. This is a great mixed art project for kids of all ages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/paper-roll-stamped-fall-tree\/\">Paper Roll Stamped Fall Tree<\/a> is a super fun way to make a fall tree with watercolors, paints and paper rolls. Plus has suggestion of different ages for this as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/fall-pack-extra-more-fall-dot-marker-pages\/\">Fall Pack Extra: More Fall Dot Marker Pages<\/a> has a fall tree for kids to use. There is a fall tree without leaves. You also have an acorn and sunflower for kids to use. This makes a great fall fine motor center for tot, preschool and kindergarten.<\/p>\n<p>Check out all the fun <a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/fall-leaves-activities-and-printables\/\">Fall &#038; Leaves Activities &#038; Printables <\/a> on 3 Dinosaurs.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/wordpress\/index.php\/fall-leaves-activities-and-printables\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/9-2026\/fall-leaf-printables-activities-2026.jpg\" alt=\"Fall &#038; Leaves Activities &#038; Printables - 3Dinosaurs.com\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Cassie &#8211; 3Dinosaurs.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall Button Tree Craft is a fun fall craft made with buttons and it works great for the season of fall. You can see all the steps we used to make this craft. And it is a great fall craft you can display. And kids will love the different size buttons and colors. And this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":81908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":"","bs_cache_bypass_cache":0},"categories":[9,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-and-crafts","category-fall"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":9,"label":"Art and Crafts"},{"value":86,"label":"fall"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fall-button-tree-craft-1000-683x1024.jpg",683,1024,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Cassie","author_link":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/cassie\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":9,"name":"Art and Crafts","slug":"art-and-crafts","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":11,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":242,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":9,"category_count":242,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Art and Crafts","category_nicename":"art-and-crafts","category_parent":0},{"term_id":86,"name":"fall","slug":"fall","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":553,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":311,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":86,"category_count":311,"category_description":"","cat_name":"fall","category_nicename":"fall","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81453"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81919,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81453\/revisions\/81919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}