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fall craft
By maryellen

Here are a couple of fall crafts I love every year. I make giant sunflowers using paper plates for the centres. We color the plates brown then cover with glue and sunflower seeds. Then we cut lots of petals from bright
yellow to put around the outside, and add a l-o-n-g green stem with a leaf or two. It takes a lot of space to display these, but our librarian loves them every year, and they really brighten the place up. Also, I have 2 fall poems we learn;
Leaves fall,
Fall leaves,
Red, yellow, brown.
Leaves fall,
Fall leaves,
All over town.
I print this poem out on a ledger sized

page and the children use their leaf collections and the appropriate crayon colors to do leaf rubbings all over the page. The poem shows through just fine. Another favorite poem is;
Cornflake leaves
beneath the trees,
Are they a breakfast
For the breeze?
We trace their lower arm, fingers spread, on brown paper, crumple for texture and glue onto light blue as a tree trunk. We glue on.....cornflakes of course!! If you have a poem about fall leaf colors they could do the same trunk with small squares of fall colored tissue, formed over their pencil eraser and glued on the tree and on the ground. I also run off clip art of fall leaves from Carson Dellosa on red, orange, yellow and brown paper and the class cut them out and arranged and overlapped them in a wreath around a cut out paper plate. Add a raffia bow and some acorns and it looks cute! Hope these help.