Pretty Fall Leaves

These leaves are so simple and they turn out so pretty.

Here’s what you’ll need: coffee filters, markers and a spray bottle.

Cut the coffee filters into leaf shapes.

Color the leaves using some fall colors.  The more you fill up the leaf with colors the better it will turn out.

Put some water in your spray bottle and lightly spray the leaf.  The colors will run together creating a very pretty look.

Our finished leaves.

Leaf Rubbing

Our theme last week was fall.  The first activity we did was some leaf rubbing.

Here’s what you’ll need: construction paper, leaves, crayons with paper removed, tape, scissors and white computer paper.

Tape a leaf to the table and then put the white computer paper on top of the leaf.  Add a couple of pieces of tape to the paper to keep it in place.

Rub the side of the crayon over the spot where the leaf is.

Cut out the leaf rubbing and glue it onto a piece of fall colored construction paper.

Paper Plate Apple

Here is a very simple apple craft:

We were supposed to use a paper plate but when we went to do the craft I realized that all of our paper plates were gone.  So I cut a circle out of a cardboard box and that worked just fine.

Hailey tore up a piece of red construction paper and glued it onto the “paper plate.”

She added two green leaves and here is our finished apple.

Seasons of the Apple tree

Our theme last week was apples- a fun theme for this time of year.  Our first activity was to learn about the different seasons of the apple tree.  The activity was supposed to be based on “The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree” by Gail Gibbons but we were all too sick to go to the library to get the book.  But if you have that book this activity is perfect to go along with it.

Hailey is working on the spring tree in this picture.  First she glued the tree onto the paper and then added green and white tissue paper to the tree.

Here are all of the seasons of the apple tree:

For winter just glue the tree onto the paper.

For spring, tear up white and green tissue paper and then wad it up to look like flowers and glue on.

For summer Hailey sponge painted the green on and then added some red pom poms for the apples.

For fall we ripped up yellow, orange and red construction paper and glued it on.

You can make your own little book out of these pages or just leave them as is.