Redleaf Press: Celebrate Nature! - powered by www.3dissue.com <meta name="Keywords" content="Integrate nature into your classroom"> <meta name="Description" content="Activity book to help children connect with nature and promote their creativity."> <style type="text/css">  </style> <Style> body {overflow-y:hidden;} </style> </head> <body bgcolor="#333333" onresize="window.location=window.location;"> <div id="flashcontent" class="flashcontent"> <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="100%" height="100%" id="issue1" align="middle"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /> <param name="movie" value="3dissue.swf?myURL=27" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#333333" /> <embed src="3dissue.swf?myURL=27" quality="high" bgcolor="#333333" width="100%" height="100%" name="issue1" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /> </object></div> <div id="content" class="content">23Fall Leaves Dramatic Play • In your dramatic play area, let the children become pastry chefs while pretending to bake autumn-flavored pies, such as apple, pumpkin, and forest berry. Include playdough and a basket of wooden toy rolling pins, plastic knives, craft sticks, and some cookie cutters. Bring in aprons, pot holders, and recyclable alu- minum pie plates. If you have it, introduce play food, such as artificial fruit and imitation pie slices. The children will enjoy rolling out the dough and creating a pie for you to sample. Tell them they are superb pastry chefs. You can use this center in your upcoming Autumn’s Apples (page 38) and Perfect Pumpkins (page 46) themes too. Art • Using autumn colors of tempera paint (red, yellow, orange, and brown), allow the children to make leaf prints. Model how to lightly paint the leaves, textured-side up, making sure to cover every area of their stem, veins, and surface. Lift up the leaf and press the painted leaf down onto white construction paper. By putting a paper towel over the top of the leaf and gently using a circular motion with your finger- tips, you will be able to include on your print every vein of the leaf. Show the children what happens when you overlap two leaves and two colors, such as red and yel- low, to create orange. Let them discover the blending of autumn colors to create new colors. • Create autumn binoculars. Staple together two toilet paper tissue holders and let the children paint the homemade binoculars with autumn colors. After they dry, punch holes in the side and tie them together with autumn-col- ored string (such as red, orange, or yellow). Tell the children you are going to go on an autumn foliage walk and will be looking specifically for autumn colors and autumn leaves. Use these binoculars for the nature hike that opens this Fall Leaves theme (page 18). Children will wear their autumn binoculars just like nature explorers do. Trentyn and Brionna paint their binoculars red. Celebrate Nature_4th pages.indd 23 2/18/11 6:24:09 PM</div>  <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); //]]> </script><script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("†{∂t+å UA-11844718-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {} //]]> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ function testFunction(str) { alert(str); } // testFunction("ready"); //]]> </script>  </body> </html>