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Welcome to my blog. It is updated weekly with pictures and projects from our homeschool - maybe you can find something to inspire you :) I have a (no longer updated) materials page elsewhere on my website and will, occasionally, post my homemade materials in this blog.

I'm married to Tim (delivery driver and gorgeous musician), have 2 daughters, live on the south coast of the UK and have 1 aging cat (Hemmingway or Hemmy for short). I love reading, yoga, crafts, baking, daft old comedies, music and teaching.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Leaf rubbing activity

I got the idea for this activity from here, but instead of using rubbing plates I wanted to use real leaves. However, that gives us 2 problems - firstly April gets frustrated when the leaf slides around under the paper and secondly if you put a bunch of leaves in a basket then they are going to get tatty pretty quick.

To get round these, I cut squares of stiff card and then glued the leaves onto them. With a couple I had to weight them down while they dried because they kept curling up but once dry they were perfect. I then put everything in a basket (leaf rubbing cards, squares of paper cut to the right size and some Stockmar block crayons) ready to use.

April hasn't had a chance to use it yet but I had a quick go and they come out pretty good :)