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Sticky Leaf Collection Colour Board 🍁🎨 The

Sticky Leaf Collection Colour Board 🍁🎨

The older 2 are at a day program today, so the littles and I took to the trail and collected some leaves.

But today, instead of bringing our baskets we brought this simple Sticky Leaf Collection Board.

DIY 🍁 I recently saw Tara over at @littlepinelearners use contact paper for nature collections and thought it would work perfectly for our color hunt! Thanks for the inspo Tara!

We simply cut a thin strip of clear contact paper and taped it to some cardboard sticky side up. Then we headed outside and stuck on leaves, trying to make our very own color palette. 😍

The fun thing about the contact paper is that if you want to move your leaves to make space for a new colour you can just peel it off and re-stick. And it works quite well! Little hands only ripped a few leaves today ☺️

Next week we will be studying Autumn leaves with a focus on the leaf litter layer. But tomorrow, we will be back to more moon activities 🌙🍁

Happy Tuesday everyone!

Kristen 🧡
@magichomeschoolbus

Magic Moon Phases 🌙 (aka Watercolour Resist)

Magic Moon Phases 🌙
(aka Watercolour Resist)

This has to be one of my favourite activities of all time. Kids love it too, because it’s MAGIC! 💫

• if you are seeing this from a hashtag be sure to come over and join us for more inspiration 💗 @magichomeschoolbus

Supplies
• watercolours
• watercolour paper
• white crayon
• pencil
• small cup or something to help draw circles

Directions
1. Cut your watercolour paper into quarters. You will need 8 pieces total (1 for each phase).
2. Draw a circle on each of the cut rectangles. Add the moon phases to the circles and label each one. You can use the visuals in last weeks email as a guide.
3. Using the white crayon, colour in the portion of the moon that is visible to our eye during each phase. Take your time to colour as much of the space as you can. The watercolour will resist the crayon, making it appear when we paint. For example, for the full moon you will colour in the entire moon, but for the new moon you won’t use the crayon at all.
* for young learners, try outlining the space and having them colour it in just to keep the general shape before painting OR you can do the colouring and they do the painting.
4. Go ahead and paint! Paint over the entire space and watch your phase appear like magic!
**important, ask your child to paint lightly over the space, with plenty of water and pigment on their brush. They DO NOT need to push hard. This will make for a better result. A ‘full’ brush, with lots of bristles works best too.
5. You can easily make a moon phase banner by hanging these cards to string using clothespins or paper clips.

🌙and don’t worry about colouring in the space perfectly. Anywhere that paint adheres to your moon between the wax crayon makes for some fabulous craters! Check out that full moon in the top left corner 👌

Hope you have fun with it! 💫 I’ll add more pictures and videos to the stories as soon as I have a second. 💗

Im so ready for fall leaves, pumpkins, hoodies and

Im so ready for fall leaves, pumpkins, hoodies and s’mores!! 🍁☕️

A while back I made a Spring tree using items from our backyard, so I gave Autumn a go. 🍂

Not sure it will be worth making a Winter one. ❄️😅

Autumn Leaves Shadow Drawing 🍁🍂

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So many of you sent me this activity via DM last week after seeing @inspiremyplay share her Leaf Shadows! I’m so thankful you all shared it with me.

The big boys are at a day program with some friends, so it’s just me and the littles 🧡

We took a beautiful walk this morning to collect leaves and then Parker and I spent some time together while Sawyer napped doing these Leaf Shadows. She really loved that we made this *just for her*.

And it’s just too simple! All you need are leaves, string, clips, paper and some sunlight. 🍂

Saywer should be up any minute, so we will be off to play outside before picking up the boys.

What a fun and simple activity. Will you give it a try?🍂🍁

Closed- AND THE WINNERS ARE... @queenofcompost @

We might see a big mess made of yarn, but they see

We might see a big mess made of yarn, but they see an incredible spiderweb that they are so proud to have created.

Perspective is everything. 🧡

And since we read yesterday that it’s common for spiders to eat their own web daily to recoup some of the energy used in spinning, they happily agreed to take it down today. We will do it carefully, and re wrap the yarn to the best of our abilities so it’s ready for our next project 🕸

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