Once the first leaf drops in autumn, it’s time to study all things fall and leaves. From how they turn from green to red and yellow to symmetry and using leaves in fall activities, like classroom bingo and collages, leaves are a fall classroom must. In our bundle, you’ll find a leaf template for everything from indoor recess crafts to writing and science activities.
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Large Leaf Template
Leaf collage
Pick leaves around your school or on a nature walk. Create a leaf collage using the leaves you find. Cover a large leaf outline with fallen leaves.
Leaf printing
Collect leaves and dip them into paint. Press each leaf onto a leaf outline to create a leaf collage.
Stained-glass leaves
Cut out the inside of a leaf printable so you have the cut-out shape of a leaf. Then, use tissue paper (red, yellow, and orange of course!) to fill in the leaf shape. Hang these on your windows for a stained-glass effect.
Painted leaves
Put fall-colored paint in the art center and let students get creative with how they decorate their leaves.
Patterned leaves
Use the sections of each leaf to create patterns and designs. This is a great art activity for older students who are learning about different and more complex ways to show patterns.
Large Leaf Template With Lines for Writing
Don’t “leaf” me hanging
Write a question on the back of each leaf. Then have students research and write the answer to each question on the side that has writing lines. You can do this activity with questions about students (What is your favorite food?), or use this activity as a KWL-style task with students recording questions they have about what you’re going to learn about.
Research a type of leaf
Students choose one leaf printable and research that type of leaf. What kind of tree does it come from? Why is it this particular shape? What colors does it turn in fall and why? Then, use the leaf printables to record and present research findings.
Medium Leaf Template With Lines for Writing
Color changing
Learn how leaves change color and write the process on these leaf printables. Students can complete this on their own or work together to write one step on each leaf.
What if …
Use these printables to write a story about what would happen if a leaf didn’t want to fall. Each leaf can be one scene in the story.
Fall retell
Add the words “First, Next, Then, Last” on four leaves to retell a fall read-aloud.
Small Leaf Printable
Leaf grids
Print, cut, and laminate these small leaves. Then, have students create multiplication grids with them.
Shape patterns
Have students create patterns using leaf shapes. Bonus: Their patterns can become your bulletin board border.
Leaf bingo
Print, cut, and laminate these leaves and use them as bingo chips in class games.
Leaves in Different Shapes and Sizes
Leaf characters
Challenge students to create a character out of leaves. After they’ve created their character, have them describe it. What is its name? Where does it live? Does it have any superpowers?
Fall graphing
Collect leaves outside and graph how many of each type you find. For older students, have each leaf shape represent a number of leaves you found (1 leaf template = 5 or 10 actual leaves).
Leaf symmetry book
Show symmetry in nature, starting with leaves. Have students demonstrate symmetry using these leaf printables, then show it in real life by finding as many symmetrical leaves as they can.
Leaves in Different Colors
Fall Into a Good Book bulletin board
Write book titles or print pictures of covers to add to your leaves. Then create a bulletin board with a tree trunk and falling book “leaves.”
Leaf scavenger hunt
Print and cut out these leaves, then write sight words or math facts on them. Have students search the room to find and collect the leaves, and read each word or solve each problem as they go.
Tree Trunk Printable
Leaf me a compliment
For this interactive activity, print a tree trunk for each student and enough leaves for each peer to write a compliment or kind word. Put the trees and leaves on a bulletin board and leave it up for a week. Students must write each of their peers a compliment or kind word (monitor the board to make sure each student has compliments). At the end, each student can take their tree full of compliments home.
Count down (or up)
Use the tree trunk and small leaves to either count up to an event (field trip, Halloween) or count down, depending on whether you add or take away leaves each day.
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