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Activities with Laminated Leaves

by Angela Thayer 17 Comments

I am obsessed with the colorful leaves this time of year! My kids and I love to pick up leaves when we are on walks, but they quickly get old and we can’t use them for anything. I decided to try using my laminator to preserve the leaves. It worked great! Here are some really fun activities to do with laminated leaves!

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I used my favorite laminator to preserve the leaves. Simply put them in the laminating sheets and slide them through the laminator.

laminator

laminated leaves Then I cut around each leaf.

laminated leaves

It’s fun to have a variety of leaves.

Activities with Laminated Leaves

Then I glued magnets to the back of the laminated leaves.

Leaves with magnets Next, I gave my boys a bin of laminated leaves and a cookie sheet for them make designs with the leaves.

Laminated Leaves

Creating with Leaves Here is what he created–a person raking leaves! I love seeing his creativity.

Leaf Picture Wes wanted to make leaf people, so I gave him glue and googly eyes and he made faces on the leaves. I drew the mouths onto the leaf people. 🙂

Leaf People

We also made patterns with the colored leaves.

patterns with laminated leaves

We sorted the leaves by color.

Color Sorting with Leaves

And we ordered the leaves by size.

Sizes of Leaves

Then we stuck our leaf magnets to the refrigerator! We made letters with the leaves.

leaf magnets

Troy said these leaves are mom and her three boys.

leaf family

And we did some more sorting by colors.

sorting by color

And then we just filled the whole fridge with leaves!

This would be a great activity for a toddler. Just make sure you supervise and the magnets are super glued to the back! I think I’ll be using this activity the next time I need to keep my little ones busy when I’m making supper!

Refrigerator with Leaves I loved these laminated leaves! They are great because you can reuse these for a long time. A couple years ago we put leaves in between contact paper and they preserved them well, so I know these laminated will keep nicely.

Lastly, if you are a teacher, this would be a great activity for a learning center. 🙂

Hope you’ll try these leaves activities this fall!

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  1. h. says:
    October 23, 2014 at 10:37 am

    Nice bunch of activities for the little ones. Thank you
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  2. Elaine G says:
    October 23, 2014 at 8:02 pm

    These are so simple yet beautiful. I have been so lazy to press these, stick in journal, etc. Laminating them would just be so much easier and accomplish the same purpose. I dare say this will be more suitable for my toddler (short attention span). Thanks for this!
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  3. Debbie says:
    October 26, 2014 at 8:03 pm

    I have a bunch of these! They’re great. I’ve used them around my display board. I’ve also just made a posting box using a coffee tin with a plastic lid, so easy to cut into. Little one played with it for ages.
    Thanks for the ideas, I have some magnets, so will be adding them!
    And the eyes are great too!!

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  4. jin rogers says:
    October 27, 2014 at 1:30 am

    this is a super idea! You could put the magnet inside the laminating so they would be more friendly for toddlers.

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    • Angela Thayer says:
      October 28, 2014 at 3:17 am

      That’s a great idea!

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  5. Renee says:
    October 27, 2014 at 4:23 am

    Can you recommend laminators…what to look for and to stay away from?

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    • Angela Thayer says:
      October 28, 2014 at 3:07 am

      This is the only laminator that I’ve used and I totally love! –> http://amzn.to/1tBDApT It’s super easy to use! Hope that helps!

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  6. blumie samuels says:
    October 27, 2014 at 10:47 pm

    hi I’m having a problem i put in my email and it won’t confirm
    so i can’t get your updates or posts

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    • Angela Thayer says:
      October 28, 2014 at 3:08 am

      That is strange! I will manually add you to the list. Thanks!

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  7. Amy says:
    November 1, 2014 at 6:47 pm

    Do you think it would work just as well using clear contact paper and sandwiching the leaves in between? I don’t have a laminator.

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    • Angela Thayer says:
      November 2, 2014 at 2:59 am

      Yes that works, too! We tried that two years ago and it worked great.

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  8. Amy says:
    November 3, 2014 at 2:13 pm

    We DID try this using the contact paper and the leaves look great. I don’t have any magnets yet to use, so to start with I made a drop box/posting box. My son loves depositing the leaves we picked up on our walk. Thanks for the laminating idea and the reply above!

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  9. Dharsh says:
    September 11, 2017 at 11:48 am

    Hi! It’s a great idea. But my only concern was is it okay if we laminate the fresh leaves or do we have to dry them or stick them between pages and then go for lamination?

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    • Angela Thayer says:
      September 11, 2017 at 12:43 pm

      Yes you laminate fresh leaves. I just picked leaves up off the ground and laminated them right away.

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  10. Mary Mackowiak says:
    October 9, 2017 at 2:02 pm

    Thank you for these wonderful ideas! Can’t wait to try them!!

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  11. April Diaz says:
    December 28, 2017 at 10:23 pm

    I think this is a great idea! I just have one question: do the leaves dry up after a while?

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    • Angela Thayer says:
      December 29, 2017 at 6:21 pm

      Nope, they don’t! The lamination preserves the leaves. In fact, I’ve saved mine and have had them for several years!

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