Oct. 8, 2006 - Notebooking Ideas for Young Ones: Leaves
Now that your children have collected all those leaves, what do you do with them? Here are some notebooking ideas for your younger children...
Do Frottage (make a rubbing)
Supplies Needed: dry but supple leaves, wax crayons, paper; scissors, glue-stick, nature notebook; smooth firm surface (i.e., table) for doing the rubbings.
Basic Instructions: Choose a crayon colour that matches that of the leaf. Put the leaf under a piece of white photocopy or printer paper. Hold the paper and leaf firmly with one hand. With the other hand, pick up the crayon. Using the side of the point or crayon, and with a medium pressure (not too hard or soft), rub the crayon over the paper-covered leaf. Try to go completely over the leaf, including the outline, veins and stem. Remove the leaf.
Option A: Cut around the leaf-shape, leaving white paper around it. Using the glue-stick, rub glue on the back of the leaf rubbing. Press the leaf rubbing firmly to a blank page in your nature notebook. Using an identification book, look up the leaf. Carefully print the name of the tree beside the leaf. Give a verbal narration to a parent or older sibling; have them write the narration in the nature notebook.
Create a Frottage Collage
(Supplies Needed and Basic Instructions, as above.)
Option B: After removing the leaf, put another leaf under the paper. Be sure to match the colour of the leaf as closely as you can with your wax crayon. Note: If you are overlapping the leaf rubbings on the paper, be sure to choose different coloured leaves. Do the rubbing as above. Continue until you have run out of different shapes of leaves or you are satisfied with the look of your picture. If your picture is small enough to fit into your nature notebook, then cut out around the outer edges of the 'leaf-pile' and glue in. If the picture is too large to fit easily, fold the page in half and glue one-half of the paper onto a page in your nature notebook. Look up your leaves in a identification book. Carefully list the names of the trees on a facing page in your notebook or on the back of your folded picture. Neatly print your thoughts about your nature walk.
Important Inclusions
(1) Date and time of your nature walk.
(2) General location of your walk and where your leaves were found.
(3) The weather. Draw a picture in the upper corner of the page. Was it raining? Draw clouds and raindrops. Sunny? Draw a circle with rays for a sun.
Helpful Hints
Be sure to show your children these helpful hints. Doing so should minimise frustration and the possibility of tears!
(1) Leaves are wet? Gently press dry between two clean teatowels or paper towels.
(2) The rubbings are easiest to do using the sides of the wax crayons. Completely remove the paper labels. With your fingertips, hold the crayon horizontally along the paper.
(3) BTW, I have found that the best stick-glue is manufactured by Ross... http://www.rossglue.com/ ...either the Ross Stik Clear Glue Stick or Kidstik Washable School Glue Stick.
(4) When gluing, hold the paper down and pull the glue-stick away from you towards the edge of the paper. Pulling the glue-stick from the outer to inner edge just results in rips or crumpled paper (and, if your children are anything like mine, tears).
Have fun!
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