Have the children draw or paint a brown tree trunk and branches. Paint a small leaf area with glue, drop on cornflakes; paint another small area with glue and add cornflakes until the leaf area is covered.

Option: Color the cornflakes with fall colored paints.

Each child chooses a leaf to be the “body”. Glue the leaf onto construction paper and have the children add arms, legs, head, etc. with crayons.

Paint child’s forearm and hand with brown tempera. Print onto construction paper. This makes the trunk and branches for a tree. Leaves can be made Dipping the child’s Fingers into green, yellow, orange, or red paint. Then Print them on the branches of the tree. You should do more yellow, orange, and red, then green. This way they look more autumn like.

1. Stuff a small lunch bag with newspaper.
2. Tie off the top of the bag with the rubber band making sure to leave some bag at the top for a stem.
3. The area below the rubber is the body of the apple; paint it red. Then, paint the stem brown.
4. Allow the apple to dry. Cut a leaf out of green construction paper and attach it to the apple.

Cut pictures of fruit, vegetables and fall items out of magazines and glue them onto the lunch bags to form your harvest bag. When the children have completed the bags fill them with assorted candy to take home!

1. Take the pine cone and have child apply peanut butter either with fingers or plastic knife into the layers of the pine cone. This works only with an opened cone.
2. Roll the pine cone in the seeds in the pie plate. If seeds do not stick…have child place seeds with fingers into the peanut butter.
3. Tie string tightly onto the top of the cone…doing this after ensures messy lickable fingers.
4. Hang your peanut butter seed cone outside in a tree or from the bottom of the bird feeder. The birds love it!! So do the children!

Cut several baking cups in half, these will be the umbrellas. Glue them on a sheet of paper. For the handles, use pipe cleaners or you can draw them. Draw or paint rain drops.