stART ~ Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf

 

Welcome to stART!  I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too. All I ask is that you link back to A Mommy’s Adventures somewhere in your post by either adding my button or a text link, so that others can see all the other great projects that everyone shares too! The linky will be open all week.  Be sure to stop by and visit the different links…every week there are so many different and fun book and craft ideas!

Check out the  stART tab in my navigation bar where you can find our past stART projects.  All the books that we have read and did a stART project for are listed in alphabetical order.  I have also included a list of all the blogs that participate in stART.  **This is a work in progress so if you have participated and would like to be added to the list, leave me a comment and let me know :0)

This week we read Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf, by Lois Ehlert.  This is a great book that explains the life cycle of a tree.  As always Lois Ehlert’s textural collages are stunning.  As we are reading we love seeing all the different items that are used to create the pictures. 

We actually decided to read this book after Emily came home with her Art Project from school.  They made leaf prints and it reminded me of the cover of the book.  

We actually did leaf prints at home with our art group at the beginning of autumn too.  They are so much fun to make and even the littlest kids (15 months old) were able to get involved and make great prints!

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stART ~ Count Down to Fall

Welcome to stART!  I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too. All I ask is that you link back to A Mommy’s Adventures somewhere in your post by either adding my button or a text link, so that others can see all the other great projects that everyone shares too! The linky will be open all week.  Be sure to stop by and visit the different links…every week there are so many different and fun book and craft ideas!

Check out the  stART tab in my navigation bar where you can find our past stART projects.  All the books that we have read and did a stART project for are listed in alphabetical order.  I have also included a list of all the blogs that participate in stART.  **This is a work in progress so if you have participated at least 3 times and would like to be added to the list, leave me a comment and let me know :0)

This week we enjoyed reading Count Down to Fall, by Fran Hawk.  The girls are starting to notice all the changes in nature as Fall has arrived.  They love pointing out the leaves that are changing  color and the acorns they find on the ground.  This book counts down many popular fall items with a fun to read rhyming text.  I love all of the details in the illustrations.  There is so much to talk about on each page.  Emily likes to know the names of certain flowers and trees.  So this book was great for teaching her the names of the different types of leaves that we are finding on the ground.   

When I saw the idea for this project on Superheroes and Princesses I knew it would go perfectly with this book.

For this project I cut out a maple leaf shape and an oak leaf shape on diffuser paper.  Then I used my hot glue gun to make the veins on the leaves.   Then I gave them to the girls to paint with red, orange and yellow liquid watercolors.

Emily and Juliette painting their fall leaves.

They had so much fun painting the leaves that I wished that I had made more of them to paint!

They look so pretty on our Sliding Glass Door, just like falling leaves!

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stART ~ Franklin’s Thanksgiving

Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too. All I ask is that you link back to A Mommy’s Adventures somewhere in your post by either adding my button or a text link, so that others can see all the other great projects that everyone shares too! The linky will be open all week.  Be sure to stop by and visit the different links…every week there are so many different and fun book and craft ideas!

Check out the  stART tab in my navigation bar where you can find our past stART projects.  All the books that we have read and did a stART project for are listed in alphabetical order.

This week we read Franklin's Thanksgiving,  by Paulette Bourgeois.  Emily enjoyed this sweet story about Franklin the Turtle.  He is sad that his Grandparent’s can not make it to celebrate Thanksgiving, but Franklin and is parents decide to surprise each other by invite all of their friends to come over.  They end up having so many guest that they don’t know where to put everyone.  Until Franklin has a great idea and the family starts a whole new special Thanksgiving tradition.

Emily and I talked about our Thanksgiving Traditions and then made another Turkey decoration for our Thanksgiving Celebration out of leaves that fell from the tree in our front yard.

It was fun to go on another leaf hunt to find the leave that looked like feathers for the Turkey.  Emily glued them onto a piece of construction paper.

Next, she glued the Turkey Body over the leaves.  I cut the body out of construction paper for her.

After that she glued on the beak and snood that were cut from craft foam.

Finally she asked for a green marker to draw the eyes and orange to draw the feet.  She told me that some people have green eyes so her turkey could too.

   Emily’s Finished Leaf Turkey

stART ~ We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt

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This week the leaves from the huge maple tree in our backyard have blanketed our backyard.  Emily and Juliette had a great time playing outside in the leaves, looking for leaves of all different colors and sizes.  I have to admit even I was enjoying hunting for the perfect leaf!  So, this week we really enjoyed reading We're Going On A Leaf Hunt, by Steve Metzger.  This story is patterned after the song We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, which Emily knows and enjoys so it was fun to see how this book reminded her of it.  The children in the story go hunting for all different types of leaves until they meet a skunk and have to go all the way back home.  This is a fun book to read and both Emily and Juliette enjoyed listening to it!

To go along with this book we went on our own leaf hunt.  Emily, Juliette and I all went in the yard looking for leaves.  After that we brought them in to make a leaf collage.

Emily started by painting the background of her paper with paint.

  Then she glued her favorite leaves on to make a collage.

Emily’s finished leaf collage

Toddler Finger and Leaf Painting

While watching Emily work on a project Juliette was so excited to join in.  She kept pointing to the paint and then herself.  How could I resist!!  I taped down a piece of waxed paper on the try to her booster seat.  Then I put a glob of Fingerpaint and let her explore it.  She poked it and then spread it all over.  Just look at that adorable little purple hand.  Next, I added a few leaves.  She finger painted them too. 

This was a great sensory experience for her, but I think she was most excited that she was able to be just like her big sister :0)

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stART ~ Fletcher and the Falling Leaves

 

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I have noticed that the leaves on our large maple tree in the backyard are staring to turn a beautiful mixture of reds and yellows.  Fall is really here!!  So, this week we read Fletcher and the Falling Leaves, by Julia Rawlinson.  This is a wonderful book about a little Fox, Fletcher who notices that the leaves on his favorite tree are turning brown and falling off.  He is so worried about his tree and promises that he will help it.  He tries to keep the leaves on the tree, but the wind keeps blowing them off.  As with Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms there is a beautiful surprise at the end of this book too!

To go along with our book Emily made a fall windsock just like the 4th of July windsock we made in the summer.  For this windsock I gave Emily leaf stickers and fabric leaves from the dollar tree to use to make a collage on a piece of yellow construction paper.  Unfortunately I did not get any pictures of her working on this project since Miss Juliette was not being very cooperative during the project.  She was very proud of her windsock though so we did get a great picture of the finished project!

Friday Art Group

Puffy Paint Ghosts and Colorful Fall Trees

The girls had a great time getting messy while making our Puffy Paint Ghosts.  When I saw this idea  on No Time For Flashcards I had to try it during art group.

   

 

 

These colorful fall trees were a great painting project!  I cut out a cloud shape from the top of each piece of card stock and  also cut different tree shapes out of brown construction paper before art group.

The Girls glued on the brown construction paper to look like tree branches.

We taped the card stock with the cloud shaped cutout over the top of the tree and the girls sponge painted away with different fall leaf colors. 

Finally we took the stencil off to reveal their beautiful fall trees!

Open Ended Art ~ Mosaics with Beans

Emily's Bean Mosaic Leaf

This month's Open Ended Art theme is Mosaics. This weeks material is paper so Emily and I made a special trip to the store for a bag of beans. I was excited to find a mixed bag of beans so that she would have a nice variety of sizes and colors. After sorting the beans the colors reminded me of fall so I cut a leaf shape out of cardboard for Emily to do her mosaic on.

Emily sorting the beans into our 12 cup muffin tin. Mommy and Grandma helped with this part because there were a lot of beans to sort.

Emily worked really hard, carefully placing her beans onto the leaf.

Getting more beans to create with.

Emily's finished Bean Mosaic!