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Easy Fall Tree

10/5/2013

Print off pictures of trees without leaves. Provide stickers or fake small leaves and glue. Encourage the children to add the leaves to the picture to complete their fall tree.

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Pretty Leaves are Falling Down

10/5/2013

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Scarecrow
Sung to: "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear turn around"

Scarecrow, Scarecrow, turn around.
Scarecrow, scarecrow, jump up and down
Scarecrow, scarecrow, arms up high
Scarecrow, Scarecrow, wink one eye
Scarecrow, scarecrow, bend your knee
Scarecrow, scarecrow, flap in the breeze
Scarecrow, scarecrow, climb into bed
Scarecrow, scarecrow, rest your head

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Fall Songs: The Leaves are Falling Down

10/5/2013

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Leaf Memory Game

10/5/2013

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Cut out squares of thick paper. Add leaf stickers or glue leaf pictures to the squares of paper.

Make sure that you have two kinds of each leaf.

Turn all the paper squares face side down to play a memory game.

Encourage the children to take turns flipping two leaves over trying to match two of the same.

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Math with Leaves and Pine Cones

10/5/2013

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Fall is a great time to go for nature walks and collect leaves and pine cones for classroom use.

Read the book: “Fletcher and the Falling Leaves” by Julia Rawlinson. Fletcher experiences the falling leaves for the first time, and wonders what will happen next.

Materials needed: Collect several large leaves, acorns or pine cones, construction paper, markers, sentence strips.

Directions: Cut out several large leaves, or buy some, write one number per sentence strip. Set out a large leaf on each sentence strip, put acorns/pine-cones in a basket or bowl.

Instructions: Have children count out acorns or pine-cones and place them out on to the leaf. Count 1 and 2 and 3.

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Leaf Face Puppets

10/5/2013

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Children are fascinated with faces, let's make some funny leaf faces!

Read the book:
Leaf Jumpers, by Carole Gerber and Leslie Evans

Materials needed:

Large leaves (cut out or purchase)
several face features from magazines or clip-art. You could let the children cut out face features from magazines, or cut out their own features from their own photograph.
glue
scissors
tongue depressors

Directions: Set out the large leaves and face pieces. Let the children create their own leaf face. Allow the children’s imaginations to bloom by letting them use as many eyes, noses and other face features as they like! Have the children glue or tape their leaf face to a tongue depressor for puppet fun.

Extension activity: Give the children mirrors, and let them create their own face on the leaf.

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Paper Pine Cone

10/5/2013

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First cut out six pronged star shapes, like the ones pictured. They should vary in size. Cut the tips to be points, then curl the tips.

Finally, String them from largest to smallest on a pipe cleaner. You may need to twist a small knot in the pipe cleaner in between each piece.

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