First Day of Fall Activity

Today was the first day of Fall. California had been learning all about himself last week, so we pulled that theme over to this week and added another concept. "I am a part of Nature and Nature is a part of me". To illustrate this concept, we outlined California's body as shown below (this made him giggle a lot).



Then we filled his outlined body with the colors of Fall...orange, red and yellow.



We talked about how we are all a part of Nature and it is a part of us as he blended these colors happily singing "Mary had a Little Lamb".



Then we added the shapes of Fall leaves within the painting and traced them with Fall colors. California labeled his work of art at the bottom and commented that it looked like leaves blowing in the wind.




Here are links to books that would go great with this activity:

All I See is Part of Me

Mouse's First Fall

Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf

Leaf Man

Autumn is for Apples