Fall leaves.

Fall is such a beautiful time of year and fallen leaves provide so many fun activities for the children in your day home.

It's a great time of year to get outside for a fall walk, collect leaves along the way, make leaf piles to jump into and return to your day home with a number of leves to use for some in expensive crafts.

The photos below show some quick and easy ideas to use as a follow up activity once you've had your outdoor fun!

How about using the leaves for a fun sticking activity?

For younger children draw a tree trunk for them to glue the leaves on to, older children may be able to draw the tree trunk themselves.

Provide the children with a variety of leaves to use, some will use all the same, others may be more creative.

Or how about making an attractive wreath for your home or front door?

Simply cut out a circle of cardboard (empty cereal boxes make a great source of cardboard) and get the children to glue the leaves all around the circle. Encourage them to overlap so none of the cardboard is showing.

If you have some spare ribbon in a fall colour this can be taped to the back to hang the wreath or a piece of string or yarn would suffice.

Or maybe try this fun craft!

Simply glue a leaf to a popsicle stick and add googly eyes for a simple leaf puppet!

The children could then tell the story of their walk, or a story of a leaf or use them to act out a poem or a fall song!

And finally, everyone's favourite fall craft, leaf printing!

Supply the children with some leaves and paint and paper.

Encourage the children to paint the rough side of the leaf (the side with all the veins) and then lay the leaf onto the paper and press down to print.

Fall colours always look great but why not experiment with non fall colours and let the children be creative!