Leaf Shape Activities

For our Apologia “Exploring Creation with Botany” course I created these leaf shape pages for several activities ~

Sorting

• Sort into groups according to shape
• Sort by descriptions found in the book

Naming

• Discuss the Latin or scientific names 
• Make fun and practical associations with these names

Play “Memory”

• Place all the cards leaf up & name face down on the table.
• Turn over and call the name of the leaf out and place with the name back face down. (This is the learning stage.)
• Call out the name first and then turn the card over to check.
• If correct, keep the card and try another.
• Player with the most cards at the end wins!

Display 

• Make a paper leaf bunting –
  simply sew all the cards with a long line of stitching using a sewing machine.
  

  (my daughter practicing on blank paper first)

• Create a mobile and hang all the same groups of leaves from a large leaf shape or name using wire and fish gut.
• Paste leaves in groups in a collage or mosaic or poster.

Nature Study Scavenger Hunt

• Ask the child to find as many leaf shapes when out on nature walks.
• Sort and place next to the leaf shape/ name it best fits.
• Place in a folded paper with a label and press between board or in heavy books for a few weeks.
• Paste in nature study journals and label or describe.
• Use these leaves to group, describe and label the margins (the leaf edge) or venation.

Arts & Crafts 

• Make leaf rubbings
• Use leaf to make prints by painting the leaf and pressing it onto a page.
• Make leaf collages
• Use pressed leaves and iron between 2 sheets of wax wrap with wax sides facing.  Cut and hang as window decoration.

Free Downloads

• Leaf shapes & names
• Leaf individual shapes

With blessings,