Leaf Crafts

These leaf crafts came from Magical Moments Preschool. You can go to her website, from the side of my blog or click here.

Thanks Teacher Jenny

We changed up your ideas a titch and added some songs. . .

Here you go!
Enjoy


Leaf Wreath
#1- Went on a leaf hunt.
#2- Cut out a circle from a paper plate.
#3- Let Little R glue on the leafs however he wanted.
#4- Picked out a saying together.
#5- Printed out "Happy Thanksgiving"
#6- Little R chose the color of ribbon
#7- I hot glued on the ribbon

Plan on Hanging it on our door for Thanksgiving. I thought this turned out so cute. Thanks for the Idea Jen.


Leaf Creatures
#1- Go on a leaf hunt
#2-Glue on some eyes with Elmer's Glue
#3- Hot glue craft stick on the back or Elmer's Glue would work too. We just wanted to use them right away.
#4-Sing some fun songs with the LEAF sticks.


Here are some fun songs to use your leaf sticks with to bring in AUTUMN. . .

" Autumn Leaves" (London Bridge)

Autumn leaves are falling down, falling down, falling down.( arms up high like a tree then lower as song goes on )
Autumn leaves are falling down, (lower your voice)
Down to the ground (squat down and continue with this finger play)

"The Leaves are Falling Down"
(tune of The Farmer in the Dell)

The leaves are falling down
The leaves are falling down
Red, yellow, green and brown
The leaves are falling down

Five Little Leaves
(Five Little Ducks)

Five little leaves so bright and gay.
Were dancing about on a tree one day.
The wind came blowing through the town,
And one little leave came tumbling down.

Four little leaves... Three little leaves... Two little leaves... One little leaf so bright and gay Was dancing about on a tree one day The wind came blowing through the town And one little leaf came tumbling down.

Circle Crayons

Melissa this one is for you!!!

First: You take off the paper on those old crayons that you don't really like to use. Besides I am sure that you just bought new ones that were super cheap from all of those back to school sales. This took the most time, Little R was totally into this activity, even though he couldn't do it very well. It was me who took most of the paper off, but I was impressed that he stood there and watched while cheering for me!!!


Second: You let the toddler sort the crayons after the paper has been taken off. It was fun to watch Little R sort the crayons. He was so precise and would talk out his reasoning.



Third:Bake the crayons!!! Make sure that if you do this you spray the muffin tins with some sort of cooking spray. Otherwise you will have a mess. You bake them on 425 for about 5 or ten minutes. This is what they look like when you get them out of the oven. I don't really know how long it took to cool. We took them out and headed to the park. Then when we came back they were ready to take out and color with.


Fourth: Take them out of the pan and COLOR!!!! Just a tip: The ones with the most crayons turned out the best. The thin ones broke really easy.



Total Little R time: 3 hours
From start, to park, to finish
It was a little bit messy, but worth every bit of fun!!!


Thanks for listening to a mother, who thought this idea was fun and worth the time to see her 2 year old stinker, smile.

Let me know how they work Melissa