Imagine

We made leaf prints using yellow, red and a bit of green paint.  It was really cool to see the lines in the leaves printed on the paper.  Lines really are everywhere! After the leaves were dry and cut out the children used a hole puncher to make a hole in their leaf.  All week we have been reading books and talking about what it means to be thankful.  For the last part of this project we asked the children what they were thankful for .  We wrote some of those things on the back of our leaves. Everyone had the chance to hang their leaf on our tree. We put the tree on the cubbies in our kitchen so everyone can enjoy it. Happy Thanksgiving!

We are making a thankful tree in the preschool. For the first part of this project we supplied different colored wooden beads and the children decorated the branches.  We started calling it our “thoughtful and thankful tree” because you really needed to put some thought into where you put your beads. You also needed to be thoughtful because if you weren’t careful the smaller branches could break and if you knocked into a branch beads would come tumbling down. The attention and care each child put into placing their beads onto the branches was a beautiful thing to watch.  This turned out to be another very simple idea that completely enthralled the children while at the same time provided them with a great fine motor activity.