For a rainy day boredom buster sort of activity, I presented the children with fall leaf tessellation coloring sheets.
I wasn't able to find the kind of coloring sheet I was looking for, so I had to make my own, by copying a tessellating leaf from a piece of artwork by Jill Etheridge found here. I enlarged the image to 150%, and traced the leaf right off of my computer screen, then used it to make a cardboard template, that I could trace again and again over a sheet of paper, which I then photocopied to make multiple sheets for the children.
While the children colored, I read Betsy Maestro's Let's-Read-And-Find-Out Science book Why Do Leaves Change Color? And, we reviewed the causes of the fall color change.
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When everyone was tired of coloring...
...we cut apart the leaves...
...and arranged them in a tessellating sort of puzzle, over the bare branches of a crayon sketched tree.
For more story themed arts and crafts for children, check out this week's stART (story+ART) link-up hosted by A Mommy's Adventures.
It's great to be a homeschooler.
7 comments:
Oh, I love the fall leaf tessellations. I think I like them even better before they were cut out. Wonderful!
This is so-so neat. Will you share your template, ple-ea-se?
Beautiful!
That is very cool! I love how you did that, I never thought of using leaves before.
çok güzel olmuş .üstelik yaratıcı.tebrikler..
Nice! Would you share that as a printable? Please!?
Tina - I would, but I'm not sure how :(
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