Submitted by C. Turgeon, a teacher at Fourway Community School in Ontario Canada.
Objectives:
To observe fall color changes.
What you Need:
brown paper or a brown paper bag cut open
tissue paper cut in 3x3 pieces in the fall colors: red orange brown yellow and green
a background color 9x13 (white or dark blue)
glue
pencil and markers or crayons
What You Do:
Read a book or talk about the changes in the seasons.
Give each child a brown piece of paper and have them crinkle it (they love that part) then have them spread it flat.
Have the children trace their arm and hand up to their forearm. This is the trunk.
Cut it out and glue it on the background.
Give out some of each color of tissue paper to each child and have them crumple them into balls and glue them on the branches (their fingers) and on the ground beside the trunk.
When they have put enough leaves on for their satisfaction have them draw in the ground with brown and some other details (the sun or clouds).
Biography:
From C. Turgeon, "I teach Grade 1 and 2 this year. I have been a teacher for twenty years. Some of that time was spent teaching French in the elementary grades. Even then I enjoyed tieing art to my curriculum."
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