Literature: Leaf Books and Crafts

We finished up our fall unit with a few books about leaves.

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves by Lucille Colandro

Who Loves the Fall by Bob Raczka

Fall Leaf Project by Margaret McNamara 

Then we did one of Lucy's favorite crafts: watercolor coffee filters. I pre-cut some coffee filters into leaf shapes, then told Lucy to go crazy with red, yellow, and orange markers. We've done this coffee filter craft a bunch of times before with a spray bottle, but today we tried something new and got the medicine dropper out. 

Lucy loved using the dropper.

The key to this craft is to color it thoroughly with marker. The one in the picture above is one I did. Lucy just scribbles and the colors don't come through as vibrantly.

We'll hang them in the window once they dry. Aren't they pretty?

After we did that project, I made Lucy write her vowels and numbers 1-5, then we went outside to collect some real leaves:

It was windy. Lol.

We couldn't do a leaf unit without leaf rubbings! Lucy did not get the concept of holding the crayon on its side. Can you tell which ones I did and which ones she did? ;-)

Sorry, that's a terrible photo.

And then she glued a bunch of leaves on a paper:

Fall/leaf unit complete! Next up: spiders!