FREE Autumn Leaf Matching Cards and {Learn & Play Link Up}

Beautiful autumn leaves matching cards for everyone!  I made this for Vito for matching activity as he loves to match these days.  But Vito wasn’t into this.  I discovered that he’s more interested in matching real objects to the cards (abstract presentation).  So for now, we’ll be doing more of that.  I’ll try to test him again in a few weeks if he’s interested using matching cards (abstract object matching).  For now, enjoy our autumn leaves!  (Click any of the images for the link or here).

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Fall Leaves Preschool Printable from Homeschool Preschool

Learning About Leaves from A Little Pinch of Perfect

Halloween Printable Pack from Living Life and Learning

Haunted House Letter Sounds Matching  and Halloween with Googly Eyes from TotSchooling

Fall Preschool Activities from Natural Beach Living

 

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Letter L: Leaf Activities in Autumn

We are joining the bandwagon of autumn-themed activities and for Vito, we’re having leaf activities! 

Leaf Color Matching

Got these beautiful craft leaves from a local store and used it for sorting colors.  I just dumped them in a container and would take each one, then mention the color and place it to where it belongs.  Vito loves calling out their names!  I am not sure if he could recognize colors yet, it’s a hit or miss for him.  It’s a challenge to put up a color sorting activity for him so I put on extra effort on making it fun like making noises or funny sounds as I drop the leaf to the sorted group.

We also tried putting them in bowls. Again, this is another try for him to get him interested.  To put twist, we try to shoot the leaves into the bowls.

He loves to shoot the them, which got him hooked as he enjoyed it tremendously!

Leaf Shapes

So I got a book My First Montessori book of Leaf Shapes from Amazon and used it to identify the shapes of the leaves we picked during our nature walk.   The book is actually for Mavi but Vito enjoyed viewing it as well.  Mavi and I talked about the organic shapes in the past few years, of how different they are from the geometric shapes that he knew.  The book is perfect for exploring other organic shapes if you are not really familiar with it.  This was inspired by Kylie’s post.

This was Mavi’s idea of creating a gallery of leaves in the hallway.  Because it mostly rain in our area, this was a brilliant idea of preserving the leaves we collected and view them whenever we can.

I love seeing them working together   This technique works best for us, Vito always wanted to do what his brother is doing, so I have to create activities that both them can enjoy.

Once they are dry, I put them on the wall for Vito to view and touch.

Counting Leaves

If Mavi loves letters at young age, Vito is into numbers and counting.  He counts and counts all the time!  So this activity of counting leaves was a total hit! Not to mention the biting of the number foam

Leaf Prints

Playdough activities are always a favourite in the house.  I encourage him to press, and press harder so we can make prints.  So far, he’s just using his pointer finger even if I would demonstrate to use his palm.

And he loves to peel off the leaf from the dough, perfect  pincer grasp activity!

Upon seeing the prints, he said “wow!”.  Glad that he’s able to appreciate the effect of his actions LOL.

Letter L Craft

This has got to be a weekly activity, of making simple letter craft that we can post on the wall for letter recognition.  We’re using uppercase letters as of the moment. I’m not putting so much effort on the alphabets as of the moment as he’s quite not interested yet.  Maybe in a few months, he’ll be able to pick up on letters as I will continuously expose him to them, especially introducing upper and lowercase letters.

Autumn Colors

Another shared activity for the two.  I traced Vito’s hand and asked Mavi to paint me a tree (with Vito’s hand as a trunk/branches) with autumn colors. 

As I mentioned, Vito ALWAYS ALWAYS wanted to imitate his brother.

Mavi picked yellow, red and orange and used the dabbing technique as it makes it look more like leaves.  Please forgive the appearance of my not so beautiful toes and slippers LOL.

Letter L Object Basket

Objects in the basket: sandpaper letter homemade, letter L from Munchkins, leaves, lemon and lion

And this is what he does with the leaves!  So unfortunate the weather was pretty bad, we couldn’t do it outdoors with the real ones.  Crossing fingers for Mr Sun in the next few days before winter arrives

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