Send Home Activities: Fall Foliage Fun!

Take your child on a walk for a closer look at fall leaves.

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You will need:

• Leaves from different trees
• Water
• Paper
• Glue
• Crayons
• Book

Activity

1. Ask your child to touch the leaves. How do they feel? How are they different?  Invite your child to sort the leaves by color, kind, or size. Count how many of each there are.

2. Try putting a leaf in a bowl of water. Does it float or sink?

3. Glue leaves on paper to make a fall collage.  Your child can add twigs, bark, acorn caps, or other objects from nature to enhance the collage!

4. Press leaves between the pages of a book.  Check on it a week later. What's happened to the leaf?

5. Make a leaf rubbing. Put a piece of paper on top of the leaf. Make sure the veins are facing up. Peel the paper off of a crayon, and rub on top of the paper. What appears on the paper?

Risa Young is the former director of two early childhood programs in the New York City area, the Children's Aid Society's Greenwich Village Center and the Innovative Learning Center at the Long Island College Hospital. She has been a consultant to Early Childhood Today for more than eight years.

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