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Finding Forests

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Took my 5-year-olds outside to find leaves to use as stamps to make forests. We were studying nature and of course the topic of trees came up. Back in the classroom with their chosen leaves of different sizes, we used yellow and blue paint to create our forest green. Some leaves we first painted yellow, stamped white paper, and then painted the leaves blue and stamped the same yellow prints. The other leaves we first painted blue and then yellow. The kids were curious about how the tones of green were somewhat different depending on what color we used first. We saved the leaves and each day observed as they hardened because of the dry paint and then withered away. They used crayons to draw and color the forest floor. Each part of this activity was exciting and created wonder.

 

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