TheSquirrel and I took a stroll in our backyard and had a scavenger hunt for nature objects like leaves, crabapples, a purple flower, a yellow flower, a clover, a walnut, etc. We pressed some leaves flat until the next day we could make these tree collages. (This was a few weeks ago when some leaves were falling but not all had changed color yet.) She sort of did what I did--hers is above and mine is below.
As I picked the orange papers for mine, she wanted pink for hers and I think pink turned out better-looking! The cutest thing is that when she was adding those tall thingys, she wanted to kindof "plant" them right into her "ground" by tucking them under the grass shape she glued down.

Now that the leaves are pretty much at peak color where we live,
here is something else I made with leaves!

Here's how the cards work (in Riley's own words), "First pumpkin confetti falls out all over you when you open the envelope. Then it says, 'BOO!' When you open the card a ghost just POPS out at you and it says, 'Did I Scare You?'!!"

By: Shena and Riley (age 4)
Mommy and Riley

We missed the Friday when Riley was supposed to make a collage of himself in pre-school, so we did it at home and brought it in to hang up with the rest of them. He made a red and blue shirt just like his favorite one, put a hammer loop on his jeans to hold his hammer, added a chef's hat and a whisk, stuck on some piano stickers, Tigger and Pooh stickers and a ship like the big ones in Duluth.

He also had to fill out a sheet about himself to go with the collage. It's very cool because he picked out all of the collage materials a couple weeks before he did the worksheet and the stuff he picked matches his answers on the worksheet:

Mommy and Riley