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
Trash to Treasure
For Earth Day: turn three pieces of recycling into something useful or beautiful.
- Grades
- K–5
- Time
- about 30 minutes
- Topic
- Seasons and holidays
- Kids practice
- reuse and recycling, inventing, labeling
What kids do
“Don’t throw it away! What could you make from it?”
- I am using…
- My invention (label the parts)
- It helps the Earth because…
How to run it
- Collect clean recycling for a week beforehand.
- Sketch first, then build.
- Hold a class invention fair.
Talk about it
- What happens to trash after we throw it away?
- What did you save from the bin?
- What else could we reuse?
Take it further
Count how much trash your class saves in one week.
Pairs well with
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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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