With your Autumn treasures, you find you can transform these into endless fun. Here are some conversations which can be inspired by this activity and support your child’s learning and development.
To support children’s learning you could ask questions such as: How many green leaves have you found? How many orange leaves have you found? What shapes are your leaves? How many conkers have you found? How does your conkers feel?
Resources Ideas
- Sticks
- Colourful different shaped leaves
- Conker shells
- Conkers
- Acorns
- Pine cones
- Dried fruit
- Plastic tweezers/ Chopsticks or similar
- Baking tray or individual plastic pots
Potential Learning Outcomes
This activity can support your child’s learning and development by encouraging:
- Fine motor skills and coordination
- Sensory experience and exploration what do the objects feel like, smell like and sound like
- Communication and language
- Mathematics – counting, labelling and sequencing objects into different patterns
How to Extend Your Child’s Learning
You can support your child further by extending their potential learning opportunities by:
- Using these objects into their role play experiences
- With a Sharpie pen add letters or numbers onto the leaves to support your child’s learning