After the 4 year old has finished Reception I set out an Autumnal invitation to play. There were sheets of paper, a collection of leaves and crayons.
I watched him draw the leaves, draw his own leaves and make rubbings of them, using all the different colours he’s seen on our walk from school.
I helped him cut round each one, then he used a hole punch to make a hole at the top of each one. We threaded them on to a piece of string so we could hang our leaf rubbings garland up.
He decided it would look it better it we added the apple sun catchers we made the other day, I think I agree.
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As you know, we don’t do craft at all but this looks like something even we could do. Really lovely. Is there enough of a grain to come through, or does the paper need to be really thin?
Where did this “invitation to play” phrase come from? In recent weeks I just keep hearing it everywhere, but literally only lately.
xxx
Liska @NewMumOnline recently posted..To The Younger Me
love it! great to see you on craft schooling sunday, thanks for sharing!
They look so effective, and nice and simple to do, too
What a lovely activity, very easy to set up ( and very little mess). A real winner #letkidsbekids
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What a lovely idea, fun, creative, learning about nature and you get a nice autumn decoration at the end.
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This is really nice! I love doing this but has forgotten about it. Now thats its autumn there are so many leaves that has an interesting shape so we might do this soon =)
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This is a lovely idea and the outcome is just gorgeous x
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