Materials:

• pre-cut rectangles in different sizes
• glue sticks
• toilet paper tubes squished to look like a leaf
• paint
• corrugate cardboard with one side exposed to show corrugation
• paper-I used 18x24" white paper

Lesson:

We started by talking about the seasons. Summer's gone, so now it's fall and we talked about the leaves changing colors.

​Each student got a piece of paper and a trunk as well as an assortment of rectangles for branches. When they finished assembling their trees, they got a tray with red, orange, and yellow paint on it as well as the squished tp tube. Students used the tube as a stamp to create leaves on their tree. They then used the corrugated cardboard to create grass. I made a cardboard handle on the back of the cardboard to make it easy to stamp.

The student who made the third tree was gripping his tube very tightly and got those thin ovals.