It's Autumn Time: Day Four

More Leaf Activities

Tree Easel Art

Tree Pencil Stamp Art

Fall Tree

Materials:

• Construction Paper
• Glue

What to do

• Give the children a piece of construction paper with a tree trunk drawn or glued to it. Give them smallsmall pieces of red, yellow, orange, and brown paper. Let them tear the colored paper into small pieces and glue on the tree and ground of the picture.

Fingertip Art-You can use bingo markers (or regular markers) to make leaves, too.


Fall M&M Tree-Kyle had so much fun matching the M&M's with the empty circles on the trees AND having enough left over to snack on!



Fall Coffee Filter Art and Poem-we didn't get a chance to do this one, but I will have to do it in the future!

Fall Leaf Punch Art

Leaf Sorting-print out the leaves and colored baskets and have child sort the leaves into the correct groups.

Fall Leaf Hanging

Set out a variety of colorful fall leaves. Give each child a 6 to 10 inch square of clear self-stick paper with the backing removed. Let the children arrange the leaves on the sticky sides of their squares.

When each child is finished, place a second clear self-stick paper square over the first square and seal the edges well. Punch a hole at the top of each square and add a loop of yarn. Arrange the leaf hangings in a window.

Leaf Spray
Need: Leaves, Spray Bottles, tape, Paper,Water colors

Fill Several spray bottles with fall colored water colors.
Tape leaves to the paper and spray away. When children are
done take leaves off and see the results.

Leaf Rubbings

Materials:

• Firm Leaves
• Crayons without paper wrapper
• Copy paper
• Scotch tape

Directions:

• Place a small piece of tape on the underside of leaves and tape to table. Place the paper over the leaves and rub the side of the crayon over the paper. The leaves shape and features will appear. You may want to tape the paper down too for younger children.

Leaf Ideas from Preschool Express and Woodlands Mommy