Branching OutBring a little bit of nature indoors with this DIY hanging mobile.

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String

Scissors

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

Hole puncher

Coloured paper

Follow these steps

5. Punch a hole in each paper leaf, thread a piece of string through it and tie a knot.

6. Tie the other end of the string to the twig. Repeat for the other paper leaves. Vary the lengths of the strings.

2. Rub crayon over the paper.

3. Do a few more leaf imprints using different leaves and different coloured crayons.

4. Cut out the leaves.

A fallen twig Fallen leaves

Wax crayons Tracing paper

1. Place tracing paper or coloured paper over a leaf.

This craf t is adapted from ECDA’s Creative Conversations activity booklet.

Let Nature InspireHEY PARENTS! Turn this art project

into an outdoor scavenger hunt by getting your child to look for

fallen leaves from different plants and of different shapes. This is a

fun activity that gets children to closely observe what’s

around them.

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