Showing posts with label leaves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leaves. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Day 16: Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf


Hello friends!

I don't know about where you live, but fall here in Chicagoland has been beautiful this year! I remember being so excited to be back from Phoenix last year, and being so disappointed in the fall colors we had. This year has been spectacular! You can't help but get outside and enjoy it!

Today's book is a great one by the always fantastic Lois Ehlert, Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf.

It is such a wonderful book for this time of year, and has inspired all sorts of leaf collecting! Matt took Abbey out the other day to collect leaves from school. I told him to snap some pictures (always the blogger!) and this is what he got:




Gosh, I love them!


Looks like a successful trip to me!

Now, I happen to believe that a Nature Walk to collect leaves is a great activity in and of itself, but what if you want to actually do something with all those leaves when you get home? 
Here are some ideas for you:

(Almost) exactly a year ago we made some Fall Leaf Art. Gah! She's so little!

Putti's World has some adorable leaf ghosts and monsters!


Here are some great examples of leaf rubbings from In Lieu of Preschool.

And how cute are these leaf puppets from The Chirping Moms?!

Now get out there and find some leaves!

Just joining in? Make sure you check out the rest of the series!

Be blessed!

Heather




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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Fall Leaf Art

I love that Abbey is at the age that we can start doing arts and crafts together. I love it even more when said arts and crafts are free! Our neighborhood is absolutely loaded with all sorts of pretty leaves right now, so I decided to take advantage and do some leaf art.
See? Isn't that pretty? How cute are those little baby maple leaves?!

This project could NOT be any easier. 
We picked up some leaves on our way home from the park. It gave Abbey a nice distraction since she was not happy about going home. Bonus!

We started out with some glue. Abbey spread some glue onto her paper, and then I went back and made sure there was a decent amount there so the leaves would stick.

Once the glue was on, Abbey got full creative freedom!

Can you tell she doesn't like getting her hands messy? haha!

And here it is....easy peasy!
How's that for a proud face?!




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