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Witch’s Brew
Little Leaves
5 Little Leaves
Activities:
1. We make a life size scarecrow for the classroom after we have read the book, The
Little Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything. We use my husband’s clothes and
shoes and stuff them with newspaper. I use a plastic jack-o -lantern for trick or treating
for the head. Later we label the scarecrow for picture and words, using index cards. I
tape them on the scarecrow.
2. Using bulletin board paper, I draw a big tree trunk and then I have all the students
make orange, yellow, red, brown handprints for the leaves. I then write the poem Little
Leaves on it.
3. We estimate how many candy corns are in a jar during MTW calendar time.
4. Children bring in leaves. We graph them, do leaf rubbings, press one in wax paper,
and make leaf people out on one.
5. We make leaf mobiles to hang from the ceiling. I have a color sheet that the children
color and cut out the leaves. Then we cut a spiral and glue or staple the leaves onto the
spiral. The leaves look like they are falling down to the ground.
6. AIMS bag tree- like the apple tree in my apple unit, you can so the same thing but
glue red, orange, yellow, brown construction paper on it.
7. Take a fall walk and then do an LEA class story about what they saw.
8. I have sequence cut-out sheet for The Little Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of
Anything. The children color and cut them out. They also blow black paint with straws
on a piece of construction paper to make spooky tree trunk and then glue the parts of the
scarecrow on the sheet by the tree trunks. Then attach the little old lady with yarn and
the students can act the story.
9. You can boil green leaves to see what the original color of the leaf is. Whatever color
the water turns to will tell you.
I have my students make a different version of Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater. I have them
fill in the sentence. Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater had a _____________ and couldn’t keep
it.
