Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Falling Leaves


Fall into fall with this fun project for toddlers. This morning I had a great group of kids at the OKCMOA ages 15 months-3years. We gathered around and talked about changing leaves. We looked at autumn trees in a book and read a story. We learned leaves come in many colors and shapes. In the gallery our magic color was red.

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Each workstation was set up with white paper and tree trunks. I pre-cut the trunks. They are simple...big Y's. Each little student used a glue stick to apply their trees.

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For a fun way to give our leaves different shapes we used foam stamps. These are the sticker kind and I put them on the end of a glue stick to make it easy for little hands to stamp. If I had though of it earlier I would have cut small wood blocks. Oh well, another day!

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I gave the kids one color at a time. First we used green. stamp, stamp, stamp!

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Then yellow, orange, red and brown. Some of us even got our hands involved! Great fun today. Happy fall!

For this project you will need:
-white paper
-brown construction paper
-scissors
-foam shapes with sticker back
-glue sticks
-object for foam stickers (ie, glue stick, block, corks)

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4 comments:

Randi said...

Using the glue stick as a stamp is brilliant! I have never seen that before.

Sandy & Misty said...

awesome idea,, l really like using the glue sticks as stamps,, may have to try this with my group next week:)

Debra said...

Thanks again for allowing me share your project! Loved it!

Anonymous said...

nice idea!!