Tree Hugging {Activities celebrating trees & leaves through the seasons!}

Are you a tree hugger?

Whether you’re learning about trees in autumn/fall or in spring, you’ll find lots of fun activities in this booklet pack for all the budding tree lovers in your life!

Please check out the preview for a closer look at the resources in this pack! Included are:

• Leaf and bark rubbing activity guide/teacher notes

• Leaf pressing activity guide/teacher notes

• I love Trees Bingo/scavenger hunt

• Tree craftivities activity guide/teacher notes (Make a tree portrait using bark and leaf rubbings & construct a small floating boat out of tree materials)

50+ page tree hugging booklet ~ page topics include:

• Places to incorporate the children's leaf pressings and bark/leaf rubbings

• Crazy tree facts & tree jokes

• A place for sketching the seed and seed pods

• What foods grow on trees?

• Add the vowels to complete the tree related vocabulary and alphabetical ordering activity

• Use a camera to take a close up photo of a beautiful leaf. Glue into your booklet

• Coloring pages (symmetrical tree page + seasonal trees)

• Design your dream tree house!

• Complete the color palette to show the colors in your leaf

• Studying leaf veins by holding your leaf up to the light

• Photo-what?! Basic photosynthesis explanation + why leaves change color in autumn/fall

• Mapping global tree facts

• The life of a leaf – draw a picture to match each sentence about the life of a leaf through the seasons

• Tree rings – what do trees have rings? Complete a tree ring diagram of your life!

• Above and below ground – did you know that the root ball of a tree can often be as big as the tree canopy above?

• “The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now” ~African proverb page

• Tree word find

• Acrostic poem template

• The difference between Deciduous and Evergreen

• All the amazing things trees do for us (fact sheet)

• What creatures make their homes in trees?

• How many things can you think of that are made of wood?

• What do you like to play in trees?

• How wide is your tree? Place to glue to your measuring string and record your measurements

• What colors can you see in your tree?

• What words would describe your trees leaves, bark and branches?

• Use a magnifying glass to study your tree and then record what you saw

• 10 Tree related challenges (e.g. take a photo of a tall tree; eat 5 foods that have grown on a tree; find a tree with a swing etc.)

Looking for other seasonal nature resources? You might want to have a peek at these!

Nature Exploration {Outdoor activities celebrating the environment}.

Fall/Autumn Nature Booklet {A booklet of activities celebrating autumn}.

Seasonal Gardening Calendar Craftivity.

This resource is also included as part of this great value bundle:

Get Growing Bundle! {Seeds, veggies, herbs, flowers, trees + more}.

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