whimsical wednesday!

it stormed overnight bringing a great many leaves to the earth for today's activity of creating leaf rubbings.   there were so many to choose from it was difficult to decide which to gather.  ultimately five were selected for their sizes and shapes.   instead of making a rubbing of each leaf, a single rubbing was created.  the leaves were arranged to look like they had just fallen in a random pattern on the grass.  (the stems were taped to the table for stability).  a sheet of yellow paper was laid over the leaves.  these were rubbed with a piece of brown sidewalk chalk and, as the chalk moved across the paper, the outline of each leaf magically appeared on the paper.  another sheet of paper, red, was used to create another single arrangement of the leaves.  this time, however, each leaf was held on top of the paper and a copper colored crayon was used to rub around the outside of the leaf.  the effects were what would be called a positive and a negative relief of the leaves.  both rubbings turned out well and these shall be used in a future craft.