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All About Leaves Printable Pack

October 2, 2017 by Selena Robinson 2 Comments

Happy fall, ya’ll! The air is cooler and the leaves in our neighborhood are just starting to turn colors. Down here in the South, the warm weather keeps the leaves from changing colors completely until about November, but we’ll take what we can get for now. 🙂

We’re welcoming the autumn season with our All About Leaves Printable Pack for fall! If you love this set (and I hope you do!), be sure to check out our list of 50 Fall Printables for Kids!

By the way, if you’ve been following our blog for some time, you may already know that we have a printable pack for each season. For winter, we have All About Snowflakes. For spring, we have All About Flowers. For summer, we have All About Beaches. Stop by to see them all!

All About Leaves Printable Pack

To use this printable pack, you’ll need the following: (Affiliate links provided here for convenience. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

Printer (with ink)
Printer paper
Scissors
Colored pencils or crayons
Pencils
Laminator (helpful if you want to reuse the leaf identification flashcards)

In “All About Leaves”, you’ll find 30 pages of activities for grades K-4!

There’s a printable activity explaining why leaves change color in the fall.

Plus a quiz to test kids’ knowledge afterward!

Learn about types of trees and which ones lose leaves in the autumn.

Kids can practice art and math with this fun leaf symmetry activity!

There are several fall leaf coloring pages inside.

Plus, our Leaf Identification Flashcards, as well as a full answer key.

If you love fall and you’re studying it with your kids this year, All About Leaves is a fun way to discuss autumn leaves with elementary-aged students!

Scroll down to get your copy of All About Leaves Printable Pack!

Kids’ Books about Leaves:

Planning to read about fall leaves with your kids? Try these super cute kids’ books about leaves!

Want even more leaf learning fun? Check out my other fall leaf-themed posts!

And if you want MORE fall learning ideas, follow my Fall Activities for Kids board on Pinterest!

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Free Printable Flashcards: Leaf Identification Flashcards

September 7, 2017 by Selena Robinson 35 Comments

Fall is nearly here! I love summer, but fall wins out as my favorite time of year. The leaves change colors, the weather gets cool, plus we get to start baking and knitting!

For our free printable flashcards series this week, I thought we’d share some leaf identification flashcards! These are perfect for fall learning, but you can really use them anytime of the year. They’d also be great for a spring unit, since that’s when plants begin to flower again.

I am woefully ignorant about plant species, so I learned quite a bit by making these. I hope you and your children enjoy them as well!

Be sure to check out our other fall printables, including our Fall Sight Word Flashcards and our Fall Alphabet and Number Playdough Mats!

What’s In the Free Printable Flashcards: Leaf Identification Flashcards Set?

To use these flashcards, you’ll need the following: (Affiliate links are provided for convenience. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

Printer (with ink)
Printer paper
Scissors
Laminator (great for reusing the cards)

In this pack, you’ll find printable flashcards for eight different leaves, including:

Ash
Oak
Maple
Ivy
Fern
Birch
Grape
And Ficus

One set includes both the leaf pictures and names, a second set features the leaf names only, and another set includes just the pictures if you’d like to do a review or a matching game.

Free Printable Flashcards: Leaf Identification - Look! We're Learning!

Scroll down to get your free printable leaf identification flashcards!

Fall Leaves Books and Crafts

Make your leaf learning into a full unit study by pairing our Free Printable Flashcards: Leaf Identification Set with these books and crafts about fall leaves!

Books about Fall Leaves:

Fall Leaves Activities:

And don’t miss some of our other fall posts!

For even more fall fun, follow my Fall Activities for Kids board on Pinterest!

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Kids’ Books about Leaves

September 12, 2016 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

We’ve been sharing lots of fall fun for kids lately, including apple tree playdough mats, plenty of fall leaf activities and crafts you can make as a family, and kids’ books about camping. But we’ve been missing leaf books! Doh!

I love watching the leaves change during autumn. It’s like the whole world just explodes with color. I remember a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip that referred to fall leaves as nature’s fireworks, and I couldn’t agree more.

So – since reading is a major part of our homeschool, here are some beautiful kids’ books about leaves you can share with your children this fall!

Kids’ Books about Leaves

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1. The Little Yellow Leaf by Carin Berger

2. The Leaves on the Trees by Thom Wiley

3. Look What I Did With a Leaf! (Naturecraft) by Morteza E. Sohi

4. Leaf Jumpers by Carole Gerber

5. Look Once, Look Again: Plant Leaves (Look Once, Look Again Science) by David M. Schwartz

6. A Leaf Can Be… (Millbrook Picture Books) by Laura Purdie Salas

7. On My Leaf by Sara Gillingham

8. Leaves! Leaves! Leaves! by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

9. Autumn Leaves by Ken Robbins

10. Fall Leaves (Clavis Toddler: Daily Life) by Liesbet Slegers

11. Leaves by David Ezra Stein

12. When the Leaf Blew In by Steve Metzger

13. Leaves in Fall (Bullfrog Books: What Happens in Fall?) by Mari Schuh

14. Leaves Fall Down: Learning About Autumn Leaves by Lisa Bullard

15. My Leaf Book by Monica Wellington

16. Fletcher and the Falling Leaves by Julia Rawlinson

17. Zero is the Leaves on the Tree by Betsy Franco

18. Robin Hill School: Fall Leaf Project (Ready-to-Read) by Margaret McNamara

19. The Magic School Bus: The Wild Leaf Ride (Scholastic Reader, Level 2) by Judith Stamper

20. There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves by Lucille Colandro

Use these activities to find more ways to include leaves in your learning!

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25 Leaf Activities for Kids

September 2, 2016 by Selena Robinson 7 Comments

Did I mention I love fall? I think that I say that every time I write about a fall activity. But it’s true! Fall is my favoritest time of the year. (Yes, I said favoritest.)

We’ve made lots of leaf-themed activities before, including leaf flashcards, leaf garlands, and leaf snow globes. But you can never have too many leaf crafts! These leaf activities for kids are a beautiful way to start discovering the season with the family!

25 Leaf Activities for Kids

1. Have some art fun with this Leaf Painting for Kids activity!

2. Learn about the special features that make leaves turn colors with this Leaf Chromatography experiment!

3. Try this How Do Leaves Breathe Experiment to find out how leaves get carbon dioxide!

4. These lovely Negative Leaf Impressions are a simple way to add art into your fall unit!

5. Gather the prettiest leaves in the neighborhood and make this Preserved Leaf Mobile!

6. Hand your smallest one some of these Fall Leaf Stickers and let them decorate a gift box!

7. Download this All About Leaves Printable Pack to talk about science and language arts with leaves!

8. This Autumn Leaf Threading activity is perfect for preschoolers!

9. There aren’t a lot of nature crafts that take my breath away, but this Stick and Leaf Butterfly Craft is downright gorgeous!

10. Let the kids set up an Autumn Leaf Investigation Table to encourage open-ended exploration!

11. Use those old toilet rolls to make this beautiful Toilet Paper Roll Leaf Stamping Tree!

12. Help tots learn their colors with this Leaf Color Match for Toddlers!

13. Get a Maple Leaf Paper Punch and let the kids cut out leaf shapes!

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Easy Nature Art: Leaf Painting for Kids

August 8, 2016 by Selena Robinson 8 Comments

I’m so excited to be participating in this year’s Paint-A-Thon sharing fun painting ideas for kids! In our family, we absolutely adore fall, so I thought “Why not paint with tree leaves?” And that’s what we did!

Unfortunately, it’s late summer in Georgia, which means we’re not going to have autumn-colored leaves for some time. 🙂 But we got out some paint, including fall-themed colors, and started up anyway!

Take a look at our easy nature art project: leaf painting for kids!

Want some more fall activities for kids? Try our fall snow globe craft or use our leaf identification flashcards to go on a leaf hunt! And don’t miss our All About Leaves printable pack for more leaf learning!

Easy Nature Art: Leaf Painting for Kids

To do this activity, you will need the following: (Affiliate links provided here for convenience. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

drawing paper
acrylic paint
an assortment of leaves (try to get ones that are large enough for your kids’ hands)

Just a quick note: This was the kids’ first time working with acrylic paint, so they were kind of surprised by how it moves on the paper. If your kids like tons of paint, definitely try tempera paint instead.

I asked everyone what colors they wanted to work with and we got started!

We put down two pieces of drawing paper – one as the “canvas” and another as the splat mat, plus paint palette. I just squeezed a bit of each color on the side.