Fall Leaves

Before winter arrives (even though it is snowing today it's still technically fall), here is a fun leaf craft to try at home...

Supplies Needed:

• Green construction paper leaf (tracing a real leaf works great)
  
• Yarn
  
• Tissue paper in fall colors
  
• glue sticks
• glitter or glitter glue (optional)
  

Steps to Making the craft:

1. Punch a hole in the top of the leaf, string the yarn through, and knot it
   
2. Child glues tissue paper to leaf so it looks like a colorful fall leaf (feel free to do both sides)
3. If desired add glitter to the leaf to for a little extra sparkle!
   

Before making the leaf craft take a walk with your child and look at all the fun fall colors. Notice how some leaves stay green longer than others. Ask your child to tell you what colors he or she sees. Collect some leaves to take back home. These can be used to trace different shaped leaves onto the construction paper and also as inspiration for ways to mix the tissue paper colors together to create a multi-colored fall leaf. Share a fall book with your child. There's a fun one you can read right here on "Booking for a Look" in the previous post!

Pictures soon to follow...

Check out a book--Online!

Have you heard of Lookybook.com? It's a great website where you can look at the entire content of children's books on your computer. It's so much fun and we wanted to share one with you. So since Fall is underway here's a fun fall book to enjoy:

Leaf Jumpers by Carole Gerber. Two children play in the colorful leaves they find in this rhyming text. Readers will also learn how to identify the various types of leaves that fall from the trees.

Just click on the cover below to read the full text of the book on your screen.

If you want to see the book in a larger window click on the little eyes in the upper right corner, you will be redirected to the Looky Book website.

Watch for more featured Looky Books in the future...