Mouse’s First Fall by Lauren Thompson
"One cool day Mouse and Minka venture out to play. From leaves of all colors -- red, yellow, orange, and brown -- to leaves of all shapes and sizes -- from pointy to round -- Mouse learns that fall is a season full of fun!"
Ruby’s Falling Leaves- Penguin Young Reader’s Group
"Ruby is trying to collect different types of leaves but all her little brother, Max, wants to do is jump in them."
"As summer ends, Fletcher, a young fox, begins to worry that his favorite tree is sick. Leaves turn brown and fall. Fletcher tries to catch and reattach them but is distressed as he is unable to save any. He takes the last leaf to bed with him, sad that his tree is left all on its own. The next morning, however, he discovers the tree covered with shining icicles, 'more beautiful than ever' ."
Leaves by David Ezra Stein
"It's a young bear's first autumn, and the falling leaves surprise and thrill him. At first he tries to put the leaves back on, but by spring he's learned about the tree's wondrous cycle."
Songs and Ryhmes:
The Leaves are falling Down (to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell")
The leaves are falling down
The leaves are falling down
The leaves of the trees turn orange and red
The leaves of the trees come tumbling down
The leaves on the ground go swish, swish, swish
Materials Needed:
-Brown paper for tree limb cut-out
-1 light colored piece of construction paper
-Red and Yellow Paint
-Scissors
-Glue
-paper plate
Cut out a simple tree trunk and tree limbs on the brown paper. Have your child glue it towards the bottom, middle of their blank paper. Squirt some red and yellow paint on the paper plate and then have your child mix a little of each together to make orange. Have your child dip their thumb into the paint and then press it onto their paper to make different colored “leaves” all over their tree.
Here are a few that we tried (Top: Turtle, mouse/Bottom: fish, butterfly, and leaf man)
#3:Autumn Wreaths
Collect Fall leaves, pinecones, berries, and twigs. Cut out the center of a paper plate and glue on your leaves and twigs etc...
#4:Leaf Mobile
Gather a variety of fall leaves. place them between two pieces of wax paper, making sure that you leave plenty of space between them so they don't touch each other. Iron over wax paper to fuse the two pieces together.
Cut around the wax paper
Using scissors, cut a spiral pattern in a piece of construction paper, starting from the outside edge and going in towards the middle.
Gather various leaves or cut them out of paper, and sort them into categories.
#6: Jump in leaves
Have fun raking leaves into a pile and jumping in them.
4 comments:
I love your ideas. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Loving all of the ideas, too Amy. I especially like the leaf animals.
Amy, I cannot thank you enough for your activity ideas. They have saved me sooooooooooooo much lately. Please Please keep these coming. You have amazing ideas. Thanks again
Wow Amy! I stumbled onto your blog through meilani's blog. I am kahi's sister Lilia. Your ideas are amazing and look like so much fun. Thank you! I was just thinking I had to tell Kahi but I can see she already knows. I will keep checking this out and start doing some with my kiddies.
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