With the leaves falling all around us and our rakes working overtime, it's a great chance to teach our kids about why the trees lose their leaves and the transitions through the four seasons. We took a corner in our basement playroom and we talked about making it a full four season tree.
Get started with Fall: momstown got busy creating a large wall tree on the playroom wall and spent a morning making apples and leaves to fill it.
Here's what you need to make it:
Brown card stock or construction paper
scissors
blank wall
Here's what you need to do:
1. Create a tree using brown construction paper or card stock. You can tape sections together to create a larger than life creation!
2. Trace your handprint to create the green, yellow and orange leaves.
3. Tape the leaves and apples (and a bird's nest!) to the tree to complete your FALL display.
Winter:
Remove the leaves and create snowflakes in the winter and tape them to the bare branches.
Spring:
Remove the snowflakes and add back some green leaves and small buds or blossoms.
Summer:
Add more green leaves and full blooms on the branches.
Quite the discussion point with your child and fantastic resource for learning seasons!
What's YOUR favourite season???
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