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LEAF RUBBINGS
Have your children collect 3-4 interesting fall leaves. Help
each child roll pieces of tape and place them under the leaves
to secure them to a flat surface. Next, give them a piece
of paper to lay on top of the leaves. Give your children crayons
that have had their paper removed. Next, show them how to
lay a crayon sideways and rub it across the paper. Encourage
your children to experiment with using different colors of
crayons and occasionally moving the leaves to different positions.
NOTE: If the leaves your children find are not flat, have
them lay the leaves on a table and place some heavy books
on top of them for a while to flatten.
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LEAF
PEOPLE
Have your children glue a large leaf on a piece of paper. Then
with a black pen, have them draw on a head, two arms and two
legs. Next have them glue a small leaf on for hands and feet
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LEAF PRINTS
You can make beautiful leaf prints with leaves and some tempera
paint. Have your children lay 2-3 leaves on a piece of newspaper.
Next, have them paint each leaf (the same or each a different
color). Carefully, help each child to move the leaves to a clean
piece of newspaper. Next, have them lay a clean piece of white
paper on top of the leaves and gently rub across the top of
the paper. When they lift off the white paper, they will find
a beautiful print of the leaves underneath.
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LEAFY
HAIR
Give each child a paper plate. Have them draw on facial features
with crayons. Then have them glue small leaves on the top of
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WALL DECORATION
One of my nicest cooperative room displays with young children
was to let them paint with watercolors on a piece of white
paper. When the papers were dried, I cut them into simple
leaf shapes and used them to decorate a large tree shape on
the wall. I just rolled pieces of tape and stuck them to the
backs of the leaves and placed them on the branches of the
tree and on the ground beneath it.
NOTE: I have never done this, but I saw a great ideas
once, where a teacher had cut old grocery sacks apart and
had twisted them up to resemble a twisted 3-D tree and branches.
It really looked great. You might want to try it. Let me know
how it turns out!
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