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“Leaves” Book Activities

by Angela Thayer 2 Comments

One of my favorite books for preschoolers during fall is called Leaves. It’s a book about a bear’s first year of hibernation. I love this book because it talks about the beautiful leaves of fall and also goes through the seasonal changes in trees. It’s a book with simple words and beautiful illustrations that make it easy for kids to understand.

After reading this book to my kids, we made a sensory bin to go along with it. First, we gathered beautiful fall leaves from outside.

Is this a gorgeous tree, or what?!

Gorgeous Tree

leaf bucket

gathering leaves

looking at leaves

leaf bin

In the story, the bear gets really sleepy and decides to fill a hole with leaves and sleep in it.

leaves book

So we decided to make our own caves with brown playdough (we used our root beer playdough!). The kids had fun forming their own cave for the bear.

making a cave

Then we placed it in our bin and stuffed leaves around the bear!

bear with leaves

Finally, we just had fun playing with the bin, talking about the leaves and how the trees change throughout the year.

Sensory Bin for Leaves

To talk more about the trees and how they change each season, I created this Seasons Wheel.

Seasons Wheel

To make it, just cut out the two circles. Line them up and poke a brad through them both where the black circle is. Then just turn the top paper around to see the different seasons. It will look like this.

Seasons Wheel2

Have fun discussing the changes for each season with your child!

You can download the Seasons Wheel here —> Seasons Wheel

This was a fun activity for my preschoolers and I hope you’ll try it out this fall!

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Filed Under: Book Activities, Fall Activities, Preschool, Printables Tagged With: book activities, leaves, letter L, sensory bin

Comments

  1. Susie Ashley says

    September 27, 2015 at 4:44 pm

    Great ideas for fall. Expensive and nature sensitive.

    Reply
  2. McKelle Franco says

    November 27, 2018 at 8:48 pm

    I love your ideas with the play dough cave and the leaves covering the bear. Wonderful literacy and sensory activity!

    Reply

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