Thursday, August 09, 2012

Leaf Rubbing Tree

(Source: notimeforflashcard)




- Gather your materials. You will need a paper towel roll, some white paper, scissors, tape, crayons in fall colors with the paper removed and leaves from your garden.



- Start by going outside and finding some fun leaves , bringing them in and pat them dry if needed.

- Place the leaves vein side up under a piece of paper – for my son I taped the leaves onto a paper so they wouldn’t shift when he was trying to do the rubbing.



Rub your crayons over the paper and watch the magic leaf appear! You can see I still had to hold his paper steady.

Cut them out as you go.




Time to tape. We used tape because it would be very tricky to glue with white glue and our glue stick was MIA. A glue stick would work nicely as long as you glued it horizontally and waited until it was dry to stand it up.
Attach all the leaves and stand up!