Leaves Theme

Leaves Theme

TALK: Show leaves and ask what they are? What are the colors and where do we find leaves? Are any of the leaves by their house starting to change color?

READ:Books

Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf By Lois Ehlert

Fall is not easy By Marty Kelley

Leaf Man By Lois Ehlert

Leaf Trouble By Johnathan Emmett

Mouse’s First Fall By Lauren Thompson

Leaves By David Ezra Stein
Fletcher and the Falling Leaves By Julia Rawlison

When the Leaf Blew In By Steve Metzger

Fall Leaves Fall By Zoe Hall
We are going on a leaf hunt By Steve Metzger
Look what I did with a leaf (nature crafts) By Morteza Sohi
There was an old lady who swallowed some leaves By Lucille Colandro
Leaf Jumpers By Carole Gerber
My Leaf Book By Monica Wellington
Why do Leaves change color By Betsy Maestro (k-3)
Full of Fall By April Pulley Sayre

WRITE:

give out the L is for Leaf coloring page to kids

SING:

If your happy and you know it – (clap your hands, stomp your feet, shout hooray)

ABC song (with colored egg shakers or rhythm sticks

#4 Freeze Dance By Greg and Steve (Kids in motion CD) use colored scarves-

# 3 Cool Bear Hunt from Silly Songs by Dr. Jean (gobble up candy in candy factory, swim across peanut butter river, wiggle in jello swamp, click pretend flashlight on and  pretend to go in cave)

Toe Leg Knee (Green Jim Gill CD)

Hands are for clapping (yellow Jim Gill CD)

Song and Finger Plays about Leaves:

This one is sung to the tune of Ten Little Indians:
Fall Leaves
1 little, 2 little, 3 little leaves
4 little, 5 little, 6 little leaves
7 little, 8 little, 9 little leaves
Blow them all away. Whoosh!

A Fall Fingerplay
Pretty leaves are falling down (flutter fingers)
Green, orange, yellow, and brown. (point to colors)
Here comes one colored red,
It landed on my head! (tap head)
Authors Unknown

Leaves on the Tree

(tune of "Wheels of the Bus")

Submitted by Gena

The leaves on the trees turn orange and brown. . .orange and brown. .. .orange and brown
The leaves on the trees turn orange and brown
In the town.

The leaves on the ground go swish, swish, swish. .. swish, swish, swish.. . .Swish, swish, swish
The leaves on the ground go swish, swish, swish
Down to the ground
The leaves on the trees come tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down
The leaves on the trees coming tumbling down
Down to the ground

10 Little Leaves

(tune of ten little Indians)

1 little, 2 little , 3 little leaves

4 little, 5 little , 6 little leaves

7 little, 8 little, 9 little leaves

10 little leaves are falling by the tree

ALL THE LEAVES ARE FALLING DOWN
Tune:  “London Bridges Falling Down”
All the leaves are falling down, falling down, falling down   (Imitate leaves falling down)
All the leaves are falling down, it is fall.
Take the rake and rake them up, rake them up, rake them up  (Imitate raking leaves)
Take the rake and rake them up, it is fall.
Make a pile and jump right in, jump right in, jump right in,  (Children jump forward)
Make a pile and jump right in, it is fall.

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

 

 Triangle fall tree Math craft 

Leaf Sorting and Measuring Activity Link


Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf Sorting Color Activity  

Red Leaf, Yellow leaf, Book Sensory Bin Idea

 Leaf Rubbing and Science Idea




Autumn Leaves Steam Absorption Craft Idea

CRAFTS:

Leaf Puppets Link







Fall leaf sun catcher craft 

Tree Template

Decorate a bare tree 
cut out or diecut

• Glue with gluestick on light colored paper
• Use q-tips bundles 3-4 rubbered banded together- with fall colors paints 
• tap fall colors all over bare tree to make leaves

Decorate a bare tree cutout or diecut

• Glue on black construction paper
• Scrunch yellow, red, orange tissue squares and glue to make leaves