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🐸 Easy Rock Frog Art 🐸 It’s #enwc pond w

🐸 Easy Rock Frog Art 🐸

It’s #enwc pond week here and we’ve had a slow start. Today we answered a burning question the kids had: What is the difference between a toad and a frog?

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We read some great stories (book recommendations below) and made a simple Venn Diagram as a group.

Then we got geared up and headed out on the trail, all the while keeping an eye out for a hopping friend near the pond 🐸.

DIY ROCK FROGS

•rocks
•twigs
•leaf (pressed or dipped)
•paint
•googly eyes
•hot glue

Its really as simple as it looks. Collect rocks of various shapes and sizes. You need 6 rocks for the frog and 1 for the cattail. Paint them green and brown respectively. We used an acrylic paint for this.
We then used our water colours to paint a backdrop on some watercolour paper.
We glued on the rocks, twigs, leaf and eyes and voila! A beautiful piece of artwork ready to be hung on the wall.

For really young kids, you can draw an outline of the rocks so that your child can figure out which size of rock goes where, and then you can glue them on. Sort of like a rock frog puzzle (see corner example). Of course they can do the messy part of painting all by themselves ☺️

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We now know that these rock friends are frogs (and not toads) for a few reasons:

1. They are smooth
2. They have bulging eyes
3. They have long legs, great for jumping and swimming
4. They are next to, on or in the water

Books we read today :
• Nature Anatomy by Julia Rothman
• Over and Under the Pond by Kate Messner
• Pond by Jim LaMarche

Hoppy Tuesday all 🧡🐸

CLOSED ⭐️ EXTRA ENTRY for the DREAM Nature Lib

CLOSED ⭐️ EXTRA ENTRY for the DREAM Nature Library Collection. Quick, because it ends tomorrow 🧡

I’ve teamed up with some very inspirational pages for this gift away, and my fingers are crossed for YOU!

I can’t even handle it! I want to know who is going to win 15 of the most amazing nature books. The collection contains so many of my all time favourites! EEEEEK!

To enter, simply:⠀
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Contest will close Oct 9, 2020 at 8pm EST. Open worldwide. If winner resides outside of the United States, they will receive an amazon gift card instead. Not sponsored or affiliated with IG.⠀

Autumn Leaves Symmetry Drawing 🍁 We’ve abso

Autumn Leaves Symmetry Drawing 🍁

We’ve absolutely fallen in love with using our nature finds to help guide our learning.

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We did a similar Nature Symmetry Drawings months ago and couldn’t pass up the opportunity to do it again with the beautiful leaves 🍁 .

We grabbed a few of the leaves that we started to press yesterday and cut them in half. Then we glued the leaf to the paper using a glue stick and completed the missing side with pencil crayon. The fact that they had been pressing in books over the last 24 hours definitely helped since the leaves were quite flat.

We did some on blank paper and others on very lightly gridded paper so that we could make it as accurate as possible. Quinn is quite proud of his work and I enjoyed this 1 on 1 time together before bed 🥰

Such a fun and simple way to weave math into art!

While I originally planned this activity with Quinn in mind (7), nature collection and free colouring is appropriate for all. 🥰 Younger learners could also match cut leaves to their other half.

🌿 CLOSED ⭐️ Big Nature Book G I V E A W A Y

🌿 CLOSED ⭐️ Big Nature Book G I V E A W A Y 🌿

I know that you appreciate beautiful books as much as I do! So, I’ve joined together with a group of nature loving families to bless a family with 15 of our favorite nature books! These books are sure to enrich any home library, inspire your outdoor adventures, and enhance your nature study.

To enter, simply:

Contest will close Oct 9, 2020 at 8pm EST. Open worldwide. If winner resides outside of the United States, they will receive an amazon gift card instead. Not sponsored or affiliated with IG.

🦊 Leaf Foxes 🍁 We are big fans of Fletcher

🦊 Leaf Foxes 🍁

We are big fans of Fletcher the Fox over here. This story is so sweet with a wonderful message. Have you read it?

Follow me @magichomeschoolbus. This entire week is dedicated to Leaf Crafts and activities 🥰

Leaf Foxes 🦊

1. Collect orange/brown maple leaves on your walk.
2.Press.
If you want to keep the artwork for a while, or as decoration, press the leaves for 1-2 weeks first. If you are simply looking for a fun way to keep little hands busy you can skip this step altogether, or press for an hour just to flatten them a bit and make painting easier. Just know that the leaves will dry and curl fairly quickly.
3. Paint the bottom edge of the leaf white, and glue on eyes and a nose. We used googly eyes and a Pom Pom, though you could paint those features on or use what you have!
4. Other friends, such as birds and a porcupine make an appearance in the story too. Let the kids get creative and make as many forest friends as they can!

Have fun 🍁🦊

Extension: ask your child what adventures their fox has gone on. Younger learners can tell you their grand adventure, and writers can write and illustrate a story starring their fox (what my older 2 will be up to).

Have you been crafting with leaves recently? 🍃

Recycled Leaf Hunt Wheel 🍂 Another morning sp

Recycled Leaf Hunt Wheel 🍂

Another morning spent in the forest = another amazing morning. This week we will be exploring the leaf litter layer and how important fallen leaves are to the forest.

Today we brought these simple leaf hunt wheels with us, made from cardboard and clothespins. They helped us focus on leaf identification and also had us looking below our feet .

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DIY 🍁
We made ours double sided (sides shown above) and also tweaked them a bit for each kid. Quinn’s had only writing for his leaf identification side, where as Rowans had a picture on it as well as words. And for Parker we found both the colours and small and big leaves.

It’s a really simple activity that you can tailor to the individual and also store away to use again later!

🎨🍂 If you don’t have changing leaves where you live, give this a go with flowers, trees or anything else you can find and identify in your area this time of the year 🧡

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