We’ve gone a little autumn leaf mad this week, so please excuse us if you are on the other side of the world, or live somewhere where there aren’t many leaves changing!
After threading with leaves earlier in the week, the kids reminded me of a favourite song they have all learned at kinder (preschool). I didn’t know this song before my girls attended the local kinder but they loved it so much that they sang it over and over and I soon learned it. My big boy was excited to come home and tell us that they sang the very same song at ‘His Kinder’ (which happens to be the same kinder with the same teacher!).
It’s now a family favourite… so I thought we had better make some printable leaves to go with it!
We also made a quick little video to help you learn the song (the words and on the printable). Excuse my terrible singing, but as I’ve said over and over, your kids don’t care how bad your singing is, as long as you sing… so I am hoping the internets won’t care too much either!
To make the leaves, simply download the pdf document, print it, and cut out the leaves and the little tabs of paper to make the ‘finger straps’. Loop the finger straps and secure onto the back of the leaves with tape and you are good to go.
Do you know any more autumn songs?
What is your favourite song to sing with your kids?
Can you suggest any more sing puppets we could create and share?
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Sweet autumn song and activity Kate, thanks for sharing. You have a lovely voice, don’t be so harsh on yourself! My daughter just sang a lovely song about autumn but I’m not sure if she just made it up (my children have been practising playing singing on The Voice so making up songs is pretty popular in our house right now!!!)
We’ve made your 5 little ducks puppets, which I’ve included in our quiet time book along with the words to the song. (Actually they aren’t so much puppets as I didn’t include sticks. I just laminated them and added velcro on the back so they can go on and off the book).
This is really lovely. We don’t experience the gorgeous changes in leaf colours over here in WA :( We created a lovely sandcastle song and items out of felt for summer. Probably have to think of something for winter now!
That’s great. Going to try it out! I don’t know a song but each autumn, we collect leaves and make a craft inspired by it whether it’s gluing it, using it as a stencil or painting. We marry our craft with a poem I found on the net- autumn leaves are falling down. Red and yellow, orange and brown. Whirling, twirling, round and round, falling softly to the ground. It’s easy to make up actions and I like the lyrics of the simple poem.
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies (please, notice the new url for my blog), under the Page 4 post on May. 17, 2012. Thanks again.
Great printables and song thanks Kate. Little eco and I printed them out last night and we sang the song over-and-over again. She loved it. And it seems you’re a better singer than me ;-) Little eco kept on telling me to shush every time I tried to sing. She wouldn’t have a bar of us doing the song without your video.
Just wanted to let you know that my daughter and I had a fun afternoon today with this activity. Thank you so much for sharing your activities! We recently moved to a country with changing seasons and this is the first time we are experiencing autumn! Love this season’s colours :)
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