Sticking with the autumnal feel, this week's new song was all about the beautiful colours of autumn leaves and of course, we had an autumn leaf craft to accompany it.
The song I chose is called "Comptine des couleurs d'automne" and it is sung to the tune of "See the little bunnies". It is a lovely little song about the colours of autumn leaves and provides a great introduction to some less common colours like "rouge-bordeaux" and "dorées". Little Imp and I had a lovely time collecting the leaves for our craft yesterday and describing their colours in French as we picked them up. It was a brilliant activity in itself, lots of fun kicking the leaves and jumping in them with the added bonus of speaking someFrench as we described the leaves and exclaimed about the fun we were having!
The lyrics to the song are as follows:
Je connais un arbre
Qui est dénudé
Car pendant l'automne
Les feuilles sont tombées.
Brunes et orangées
A rough translation would be:
I know a tree which is bare,
because in autumn the leaves have fallen.
They turned yellow, brown and orange,
green, burgundy and even golden.
Our craft activity this week was all my own idea - no really, it was!! Well, I might have taken a little bit of inspiration from the brilliant Julia Donaldson and her "Stick man" story - but only a little bit!! This week, we used the big bag of leaves and the other usual crafty bits - googly eyes, felt, cupcake cases, pipe cleaners, glitter glue, etc. to creat our very own leaf people. A really simple but effective craft as you can see from our great autumn leaf people pictures below:
Little Imp and I hope that you have a fun week kicking up leaves and creating some leaf people of your own! :o)
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