All You Need is Paper (and a little love) ESL/EFL activities

My first-graders are studying the letter F as in fox and forest. It took us 3 classes to get this whole craft done because we had to wait for the paint to dry but it was definitely worth it. I cut the heads and ears from egg cartons and had them paint only the white the first class. The following class they painted the orange part of the head including the ears. Then, finally, the third class, they added the details with a black marker and we used a hot glue gun to glue everthing onto this little black paper frame I already had. I pre-cut the leaves, they added the details and then used regulat white liquid glue to paste them around the fox. Last, on a small white paper they wrote: fox in the forest, and glued it onto the back of the black paper. They were all excited to take their work home to show their families. 🦊🌳  

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.