il y a quatre saisons...

Given the change in the weather and the very definite autumnal feel this week, I decided that we should have a new song which included something about the weather or the seasons.  The song I chose is one that always proves popular in the primary school classes as it has a good catchy tune and the lyrics are simple and repetitive.

The song is called "les quatre saisons", there are four seasons and it can be found and downloaded from skoldo here in the form of an mp3 track and a sheet with the lyrics on:
http://www.skoldo.com/node/2266

The song names the four seasons in French and then goes on to describe the weather for each season.   The opening lyrics are as follows:
Il y a quatre saisons dans une année
le printemps, l'été, l'automne, l'hiver.

This song obviously required a craft activity to do with the seasons and as we hadn't had the paints out for a while I decided to try and find a painting activity to fit the bill.  I stumbled across the blog "the ramblings of a crazy woman" and this great craft activity: http://jennwa.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/pre-school-seasons-craft.html

To complete this craft yourself at home, you will need the following:
large sheet of construction paper, or we used lining paper (I find this is great for painting as the paint doesn't go through the paper and you can cut of a piece as big or as small as you want)
paint - brown, green, orange, yellow, pink, white, red ( or just the primaries and white and mix your own)
foam paint brush

Then just liberally paint your toddler's arm and hand with brown paint a print 4 "trees".

Next, finger paint to make them represent each season.  We did it like this:
Spring - green for leaves and pink for blossom
Summer - green for leaves and red for apples
Autumn - orange, yellow, brown and red leaves
Winter - white snow


Here are our fantastic four seasons paintings for you to enjoy:

 

Happy singing and painting! :o)