10 fun ways to celebrate fall and say bye-bye to summer

Something old , something new , something painted, something glued.  Teach your child about seasons change .


1. Make a leaves wreath
With the help of a paper plate, some paper, some glue and lots of leaves  you will enjoy a creative afternoon with your child and tell a story or two .

2.Water colour leaf paintings  -water colour resist with crayons
You probably remember doing this project when you were a kid. The great part about this activity -it’s a great way to show kids how different things react with water color.
Resist, means that the crayon will repel the water color away from it. If you use a white crayon during this activity, your kids eyes may pop out!
Materials

• Paper
• Water Color Paints (preferably dark colors)
• Paint Brush
• Crayons (preferably light color crayons, even white)

3.LEAF RUBBING
Take your kids for a bike ride  and collect some leaves.,  Arrange a leaf with the vein side facing up, and then place a sheet of paper on top. Using the flat edge of the side of a crayon, hold the paper firmly in place, then rub the crayon back and forth along the paper. Your leaf rubbing will appear.

4. A personalized table runner
Take any plain table runner and place some leaves your child collected - .

5.A  leave animal
construct an animal 

6.Leaves rocks
Glue your leaves to rocks for fun and decoration .

7. Painting with leaves
Put some paint on the real leaf and print it against the paper. 

8.Hand painting 

9.Make a leaves-garland. 

10.Use fall to kick-start a discussion with kids about the seasons in general:

• How the weather changes
• What holidays occur in each season
• What foods can be harvested