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Branching Out Bring a little bit of nature indoors with this DIY hanging mobile. 22 Beanstalk Snap & Show Take a picture of your child’s hanging mobile to [email protected] or post it as a public post on your Facebook with the hashtag #BeanstalkCraft. Your child’s masterpiece could be featured in the next issue of Beanstalk! String Scissors WHAT YOU’LL NEED Hole puncher Coloured paper Follow these steps 5. Punch a hole in each paper leaf, thread a piece of string through it and tie a knot. 6. Tie the other end of the string to the twig. Repeat for the other paper leaves. Vary the lengths of the strings. 2. Rub crayon over the paper. 3. Do a few more leaf imprints using different leaves and different coloured crayons. 4. Cut out the leaves. A fallen twig Fallen leaves Wax crayons Tracing paper 1. Place tracing paper or coloured paper over a leaf. This craft is adapted from ECDA’s Creative Conversations activity booklet. Let Nature Inspire HEY PARENTS! Turn this art project into an outdoor scavenger hunt by getting your child to look for fallen leaves from different plants and of different shapes. This is a fun activity that gets children to closely observe what’s around them. play

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Page 1: A fallen twig Fallen leaves Wax crayons Tracing paper String … · 2019. 10. 23. · Scissors WHAT YOU’LL NEED Hole puncher Coloured paper Follow these steps 5. Punch a hole in

Branching OutBring a little bit of nature indoors with this DIY hanging mobile.

22 Beanstalk

Snap & ShowTake a picture of your child’s hanging mobile to [email protected] or post it as a public post on your Facebook with the hashtag #BeanstalkCraft. Your child’s masterpiece could be featured in the next issue of Beanstalk!

String

Scissors

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

Hole puncher

Coloured paper

Follow these steps

5. Punch a hole in each paper leaf, thread a piece of string through it and tie a knot.

6. Tie the other end of the string to the twig. Repeat for the other paper leaves. Vary the lengths of the strings.

2. Rub crayon over the paper.

3. Do a few more leaf imprints using different leaves and different coloured crayons.

4. Cut out the leaves.

A fallen twig Fallen leaves

Wax crayons Tracing paper

1. Place tracing paper or coloured paper over a leaf.

This craf t is adapted from ECDA’s Creative Conversations activity booklet.

Let Nature InspireHEY PARENTS! Turn this art project

into an outdoor scavenger hunt by getting your child to look for

fallen leaves from different plants and of different shapes. This is a

fun activity that gets children to closely observe what’s

around them.

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play