Seasons and holidays
Fall Leaf Portrait
Find a real fall leaf, look closely and draw its portrait: the veins, the edges and every color.
Thinking sheet · Seasons and holidays
Leaf Color Graph
Collect leaves, sort them by color and make a bar graph of what you found.
- Grades
- K–3
- Time
- about 25 minutes
- Topic
- Seasons and holidays
- Kids practice
- sorting, graphing, seasonal science
What kids do
“Sort your leaves by color. Color one square for each leaf!”
- Leaves we found (write the colors under the bars)
- The most common color was…
- I think that’s because…
How to run it
- Gather leaves outside or bring a bag in.
- Sort on the floor into piles first, then fill in the graph.
- Compare graphs from early and late fall.
Talk about it
- Which color had the most? The least?
- Would the graph look different next week?
- What else could we sort and graph?
Take it further
Graph leaves by shape instead of color.
Pairs well with
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