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

Based on a story my fourth-graders read in class about a girl who wanted a garden in her small apartment, I had the class think about what a garden needs. Students first wrote what a garden needs to grow strong and glued this paper with their answer on the back of a green paper. They then made flowers and stems to create their garden. We folded 2 slips of paper to make the stem so the flowers would pop off the page. It was facinating to see how each garden, despite having the same elements, was so diferent.  

My fifth-graders have been studying about mold and mushrooms. We created this paper mushroom art to illustrate an activity in which we discussed what they knew about mushrooms and what they would like to know about them. They wrote their ideas on a separate sheet of paper to glue on the back of their mushroom gardens. I was surprised at how much they knew and how curious they were. We all came to the conclusion that mushrooms are fascinating, especially the biolumenescent ones. We're saving these to show parents on the last day of class when we have an open house for them.