Autumn Leaf Collage
What you need
- a paper bag for collecting
- dry leaves in as many colours as you can find
- a big sheet of paper
- a glue stick, or rolled-up loops of sticky tape
- a brown crayon
How to do it
- Go out with the paper bag and collect dry leaves together: red, orange, yellow, brown and any green ones that have fallen.
- Back inside, tip them out and sort them into colour piles on the floor.
- Draw a big tree trunk and branches on the paper with the crayon, then let your child glue the leaves on, one colour at a time or all mixed up.
- Stand back together and name the colours on the tree, then find the biggest leaf and the smallest.
Why it matters
Autumn hands them a bag of colours for free. Sorting the piles slows them down to look, and the tree on the paper keeps the walk for later.
What they're learning
- Colour words
- Red, orange, brown: sorting the piles means naming them.
- Sticking and pressing
- Gluing the back of a leaf and pressing it flat with a hand.
- Noticing the season
- Leaves change colour and fall in autumn, and the bag is full of proof.
What to look for
Notice them choosing where each leaf goes on the tree, not just where it lands.
A tip
Pick dry leaves, because wet ones won't stick. A glue stick is easier than runny glue for small hands.
Make it easier or harder
Easier: stick on leaves of two colours, red and yellow, and fill the tree with those
Harder: make two trees, a red one and a yellow one, and sort every leaf onto the right one
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