Unit Overview: Students will learn about leaf printing in order to create a leaf print tree collage. Students will learn about collage and add additional elements to their collage to create a complete leaf print tree collage. students will discuss what makes a leaf print successful and how it works. This was a fun project to do with kindergartners. Many of them have already done leaf prints before. However, what made this special was talking about how and why leaf prints are made, which side of the leaf to use and why, and how each leaf is different and unique. We used the printed the leafs in order to cut them out to add to our tree collage. Students used their hand/arm as a base for a tree. We talked about the word in sign-language (I am semi-fluent in ASL, and love to incorporate ASL into my lessons) for tree and showed how the hand/arm can represent a tree. Unfortunately, my time at this school ended before I could finish this project with them. The students made beautiful leaf prints in colors of orange, pink, green, and blue (I wanted to highlight summer colors, although this project would be more suited to autumn). The students added pretty neat collage elements to their picture. I was impressed with the ability of one student, who created her family in incredible detail. For a kindergarten class, they showed advanced ability in cutting, gluing, and creativity.
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