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
Rainbow Garden Plan
Plan a garden bed with a row of flowers or vegetables for each color of the rainbow.
- Grades
- 1–5
- Time
- about 30 minutes
- Topic
- Seasons and holidays
- Kids practice
- planning, plants, research
What kids do
“Plan a garden with every color of the rainbow!”
- My garden bed from above (one row per color)
- What grows in each color
How to run it
- Use seed catalogs or a quick search for ideas: tomatoes, carrots, sunflowers.
- Blue is tricky! Let kids hunt for a blue flower.
- Plant a real cup garden if you can.
Talk about it
- Which color was hardest to find?
- What do all plants need?
- Would you eat or pick your garden?
Take it further
Grow one plant from your plan in a cup.
Pairs well with
Free for home and classroom use. Print as many copies as you need.
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Seasons and holidays
Leaf Color Graph
Collect leaves, sort them by color and make a bar graph of what you found.
Seasons and holidays
Pumpkin Faces Three Ways
Design three jack-o’-lantern faces: friendly, silly and surprised. Then pick one to carve or paint.
Seasons and holidays
Scarecrow Makeover
The crows aren’t scared of this scarecrow at all. Give it a makeover that works (or makes them laugh).
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