Leaves and Trees Lesson Planning Ideas
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Use the suggested ideas below to help you plan your preschool leaves and trees lessons!
Arts & Crafts Provide your preschoolers with a variety of fall colored play dough this week. Add Tree and Leaf cookie cutters to the art space. You can add Leaf Rubbings and Small twigs and leaves (both real, and paper/silk) to this space as well, and encourage them to incorporate them in their free art.
These coffee filter leaves belong to community member Darlene Santos Gormly. The Children used Coffee Filter leaves (that she cut out herself), eye droppers, and Red & Yellow watercolor paints to create these beauties.
Autumn cork painting from the Picky Apple
Autumn Placemat from Candace Creations
Easy Marbles Leaves-from i heart arts n crafts
Autumn play dough leaf prints from Learning 4 Kids
Leaf Painting from-Simple Fun For Kids
Add some leaf decor and books about leaves and trees to your space.
Pull out leaf/tree puzzles. If you have incorporated a tree into your space-change out your "Summer" leaves into "Fall ones. If you plan on adding a tree to your space, consider adding velcro, so that the children can change out the leaves seasonally.
Pull out leaf/tree puzzles. If you have incorporated a tree into your space-change out your "Summer" leaves into "Fall ones. If you plan on adding a tree to your space, consider adding velcro, so that the children can change out the leaves seasonally.
Dramatic Play: Add a "raking center" in your dramatic play space (you can purchase silk leaves at your Dollar Store or local craft store). Add some plastic rakes and a strip of indoor/outdoor carpet for a fun effect.
This precious Leaf Raking area was created by community member Tamara G. Elemeno Preschool
Construction/Building Area: Encourage kids to create trees for the construction space. Provide them with a variety of recycled items to turn into small trees. You can purchase or paint your own "tree" blocks for this space as well.
Our friends at Erica's Educare Learning Center are using the Pre-K Printable Fun Fall counting mats 1-10 with frame sprinted on vellum on their light table to practice their counting skills.
Practice sorting Leaves by color with this color leaf match up activity found inside the Pre-K Printable Fun Leaves and Trees Activity Pack.
Member Cassandra shared our Fall tree counting mats 1-10 without frames being used in her program
Member Cassandra shared our Fall tree counting mats 1-10 without frames being used in her program
Member Cheryl shared a photo of one of the leaf sorting activities found inside our Leaves and Trees activity pack
Practice Counting tree rings with this math activity found inside the PKPF Leaves and Trees activity pack
Community member Laura M. shared this DIY leaf letter matching activity created from a felt place mat and
silk leaves from the dollar tree.
silk leaves from the dollar tree.
Our Friend Veronica wrote a guest post on how to create invitations to play by combining printables and loose parts! Here she set out our uppercase and lowercase sorting mats with wooden letters.
Label the parts of a Tree with this activity from the PKPF Leaves and Trees Activity Pack
Incorporate this fun Fall Leaves Rhyme into your circle time routine this week!
Strong visual discrimination skills help young children help young children spot subtle differences between letters. Your students will have fun building this skill as they search for the fall items inside this Zoom In On Fall Activity from PKPF.
We're going on a Leaf Hunt
Fletcher (The Fox) and the Falling Leaves
The Busy Tree
How do you know It's Fall?
Leaf Man
A Tree for All Seasons
Learning About Trees
A Tree is a plant
Leaf Jumpers
Red Leaf Yellow Leaf
Fletcher (The Fox) and the Falling Leaves
The Busy Tree
How do you know It's Fall?
Leaf Man
A Tree for All Seasons
Learning About Trees
A Tree is a plant
Leaf Jumpers
Red Leaf Yellow Leaf
You can turn silk leaves into "Felt Board" activities, or add them to your Sensory Table for some fall fun. You can also turn simple Bulletin Board Leaf Cut-outs into a matching game (if you are unable to procure a variety of leaves in your neighborhood).
Use this free Leaf Specimen printable from PKPF to record and document your leaf specimens. This activity helps young children start to identify different characteristics of living objects. Many discussions can be had about the changing seasons, as well as the similarities of their specimens they have collected.
Learn more about the parts of a tree and how a tree changes with the seasons with this activity found inside our Leaves and Trees Activity Pack.
Discover a Leaf's skeleton with this activity from-Education.com
A great experiment on why Pine Cones open and close from Parenting Chaos
Learn about the fruits and nuts that are grown on trees,
Community member Laurie Cheney shared this lovely photo! There is something magical about raking fall leaves on a crisp fall morning into a big pile-and of course jumping into them.
Build Fine Motor Skills with this Pre-Writing Activity found inside the PKPF Leaves and Trees Activity Pack.
Play Dough Activities are great for building fine motor skills! Add your own leaves to these tree mats found inside the PKPF Fall Play Dough Mats Set.
Build fine motor skills with this fun Roll & Color Leaves Activity found inside our Leaves and Trees Activity Pack
Learn about 2D shapes and build fine motor skills with this set of leaf shape clip cards from PKPF
A parachute + Leaves = tons of outdoor fall fun. Check out this activity and other fun fall ideas from Teach Preschool.
Leaf Yarn Wrapping fine motor activity from-Cutting Tiny Bites
