leaf rubbings

6 Fall Activities For Your Family

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Leaf Rubbings 🍁

What You Need:

  • Leaves
  • Crayons
  • Paper

What You Do:

Have kids go outside and find fresh leaves on the ground or in a tree. Collect all shapes and sizes. Make sure they are not wet.
Peel the wrapper off of crayons. I recommend using fall color crayons (reds, oranges, yellows, browns, greens).
Place the leaf under the paper and have the kids rub the crayon back and forth on top of the paper where the leaf was placed (lay crayon flat). You will soon be able to see the shape, stem, and veins of the leaf appear on the paper. Repeat with the other leaves and colors on the same paper.

Play Dough Leaf Prints! 🍁🔍

What You Need:

  • Leaves
  • Play Dough
  • Magnifying glass

What You Do:

Fall leaves are awesome for exploring and inspecting! Encourage your child to make prints with leaves in play dough. What do they discover about the prints? Use a magnifying glass to take a closer look at the grooves and designs in the leaves

Paper Bag Apples! 🍎

What You Need:

  • Small paper bag
  • Paint or markers/crayons
  • Newspaper or clean scrap paper
  • Yarn, pipe cleaners, or rubber band
  • Construction paper

What You Do:

  1. Paint or Color your paper bag red, yellow or green. Let it dry thoroughly.
  2. Stuff your bag with balled up newspaper or any type of clean scrap paper.
  3. Gather the top of your bag together and secure it with yarn, a pipe cleaner or rubber bands.
  4. Make a few leaves to attach to your apple.
  5. Have Fun decorating for fall!!!

Fall Sticky Tree Activity!🌳

What You Need:

  • Leaves
  • Clear contact paper
  • Brown paper
  • Tape

What You Do:

  1. Make a tree trunk out of brown paper and adhere it to the wall.
  2. Cut out a large oval from clear contact paper and attach it to the wall (sticky side out) so that it fits above the trunk like a treetop.
  3. Lay out your Fall leaves on the floor and encourage your child to add and remove Fall leaves from the Fall tree.
  4. Other ways to play: Take breaks in between sticking the leaves on the tree to just throw the leaves and make them fall all over your child’s face. Feel the sensation of the leaves touching their face as the leaves fall! Talk about the colors of the leaves, count them, and even sort them.
child placing leaves on paper tree

Leaf Window!🍂

What You Need:

  • Leaves
  • Clear contact paper

What You Do:

  1. Take a walk with your children and have them collect leaves.
  2. Lay contact paper sticky side up on the floor. Peel off backing and place leaves on the contact paper.
  3. Stick the contact paper to the window and admire autumn’s beauty!

Apple Mosaic!🍎

tissue paper squares in the shape of an apple

What You Need:

  • Clear contact paper
  • Green, brown, and red construction paper
  • Scissors

What You Do:

  1. Cut contact paper into an apple form.
  2. Cut green construction paper into a leaf shape.
  3. Cut brown construction paper into a stem.
  4. Cut red construction paper into smaller square pieces.
  5. Peel off the back of the contact paper and tape it on a window, glass door, or other surface in your child’s reach with the STICKY side OUT.
  6. Help your child assemble the apple, using the red smaller pieces of paper to “color” the apple and practice their fine motor skills by pinching and sticking the pieces to the contact paper.