Autumn trees

We have had so much fun watching the trees change and it was great to make a poster to remind us of it.

First we used white crayon to draw some wispy clouds.

Then use blue paint for the sky (lovely for the children to magically see their previously invisible white clouds).

Use fingers for the branches. Biggest fingers first and then smaller and smaller.

Keep those fingers still when you do the print.

Lovely trees ready to be decorated.

Glue some sand on the ground and then start gluing on your leaves. Start with the green tree and work your way down, talking about how the leaves have changed and how different the trees look.

Autumn place mats

The children will love making their own place mats and perhaps a few extra to give as gifts.

Dry the leaves in a flower press for a few days to make sure they are nice and dry and flat.

Give each child a laminating pocket and show them the one side they need to put their leaves on. They can decorate it any way they like. Just try not to have too many overlapping as it gets too thick and also leave a little space around the edges.

Laminate and see their excitement at using them at the next meal.

Acorn bracelets

It's really simple to make these pretty acorn cup bracelets and your girls will love making them and wearing them.

Have fun collecting autumn items from the garden. Let the children colour in the acorn cups with felts.

Put clear drying glue in each cup and allow to dry overnight. Then use a glue gun to attach the acorn cups to a pipe cleaner. Let the girls select the acorn cups they want to use and allow them to pick their own pipe cleaner (it helps if they each chose a different colour as you then know whose is whose).

If you make a few "pairs" of the same colour then you can use some of the extras for a memory game too.