This week I've put out a fall variation of an activity that I first saw on Anne's Itty Bitty Love blog last year. This is very simple to set up and very appealing to young children. I used a dollar store salt shaker, a glass butter dish with brown pipe cleaners cut in half, and a little glass dish of fall colored faceted beads.
To do this work the child pokes the pipe cleaners into the salt shaker holes and then slides the beads onto them. I told the children we could think of the brown pipe cleaners as tree trunks and the beads as fall leaves on the branches. We've been talking a lot about leaves this past month or so and singing some songs about leaves, so this seemed like a good analogy. Here is the sculpture my own little boy (almost 4 1/2) put together when we were working in the classroom together on Sunday afternoon.
I just found you via Silly Eagle Books and I'm really enjoying reading through your posts. This little project in particular has caught my attention - I think my elder daughter would love it. Thanks for the inspiration!
Posted by: Zoe | November 28, 2009 at 07:52 AM
I gave you an award! You inspire me so much! Thank for all your lovely ideas!
Posted by: Carine Robin | November 07, 2009 at 09:47 AM
Doh - here's the link!http://otherlivesotherthoughs.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Anna | November 04, 2009 at 03:42 PM
I gave you an award! Thanks for all the inspiration you have given me over the past eighteen months or so. xxxx
Posted by: Anna | November 04, 2009 at 03:40 PM