great way to explore math concepts and learn about the artistic process. Encourage your child to build basic math skills such as shape recognition and the part-to-whole relationship. Take this opportunity to teach him some new vocabulary words such as geometric shape, primary color, texture, or collage for an added lesson.
Use rectangles, squares, and triangles to collage a tree trunk and branches. Next, attach tissue paper in fall colors full of seasonal inspiration.
What You Need:
Construction paper (in browns)
Scissors
Tissue paper (in fall colors such as red, yellow, dark green, brown, and orange)
Glue
What You Do:
Help your child cut out shapes from the brown construction paper.
These will become the tree trunk and the branches.
Ask your child to glue the paper shapes onto a separate sheet of construction paper of a different color.
Help your child create fall leaves from the tissue paper. Ask him to cut or tear small pieces in various geometric shapes from each color.
Then have your child glue the tissue leaves onto the tree branches however he likes. He can even glue some on the ground next to the tree to make piles of fallen leaves.