Take a nature walk/leaf hunt around your yard, neighborhood or park. Take a bag or bucket along to collect leaves, twigs and nuts you'll find on your walk. Point out the changes in color in the leaves, grass and flowers. Discuss how it's getting cooler in the night and morning and how that helps the leaves change color. When you return from your walk lay out your findings and make a collage.
You could also do the following activity with the leaves you found on the nature walk:
Press a variety of large fall leaves between pages of a book until they lie flat. Then choose two or three pressed leaves and place them on a protected tabletop. Brush fall-colored tempera paint over the leaves. If desired, add several streaks of gold metallic tempera paint. Then place a sheet of construction paper over the leaves and smooth your hands over the paper. Flip the paper over and remove the leaves to see a lovely piece of autumn artwork!
As always, you can simply place a leaf or two under a piece of paper and let your child rub an unwrapped crayon over the paper. Talk about the different types of leaves - colors, shapes and sizes. (use words like big, bigger, biggest...)
Here's the link to a few "extras" and also another neat idea from a magazine article with illustrations. Happy fall y'all! (FYI, the first official day of fall is September 22.)
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Fall Magazine Article Activity
Leaf Man
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