touching on the concepts of symmetry and leaves changing colors in autumn, we made leaves.  on a precut leaf shape out of big manila paper, preschoolers drew with red and yellow crayons where they wanted the paint.

a teacher covered their lines with paint

folded over and rubbed like crazy (without worrying about paint that sneaks out)

and the best part:  opening!

we’ve done this for hearts and valentines and butterflies, but not leaves before.