Little Leaves Collage

For this lesson, we used crayons and oil pastels to create our projects. To begin, we first used a tool to get crayon shavings from warm colors. Once we had enough crayon shavings on our wax paper we folded the wax paper and melted the shavings by using a hot iron in between the wax paper. Once the colors were melted, we were given a paper of leaves to trace from. We traced at least three leaves on to our warm colored wax paper and then cut the leaves out. We then glued the warm colored leaves on to a piece of white 8.5 X 11 paper. Then we discussed cool colors, and used cool colored oil pastels to create at least five different leaves on our collage. Our finished collage had both cool and warm colored leaves. To finish our project we framed our collage.

An extension activity for this project could be using the wax paper and crayon shavings to create a scene to represent each of the seasons. After discussing that there are four seasons in a year, students could pick a season and melt the crayon shavings and then cut out different objects that will correspond to the season they chose. For example: for winter students could make snowflakes, snowmen, our a holiday scene. For Spring students could make flowers or an easter bunny or eggs. For summer students could make a scene at a lake or something they do in the summer, and for fall they make a pumpkin, leaves falling off trees, and school starting again.