This project is called "Little Leaves." The teachers first had us write down our favorite fall memory. In this project, we first skinned crayons (yellow, orange, red, red-orange) onto wax paper. Once we had enough wax shavings on the wax paper, the teacher would collect and iron it. This would create a flat sheet of melted wax, surrounded by wax paper, that created interesting patterns and design. Next, we traced 3 leave shapes onto the wax paper and cut these out. Then, we glued these shapes onto a piece of white 8.5" x 11" paper. Next, we drew 5 leaves surrounding and overlapping the wax leaves. We were instructed to fill in these shapes with cool colors using oil pastels. We had to have at least 5 drawn leaves and 3 wax leaves.  Finally, we added lines and visual texture to the wax and drawn leaves.

An extension project that a teacher could do could be to gather actual leaves and create a collage using them. The teacher could correlate the fall memories by asking the students to bring in pictures that remind them of fall. This could be pictures of them and their family or pictures from a magazine or newspaper. The class could then create one huge collage including the pictures, leaves, twigs, and other natural materials that they found. Each student would glue on their own pictures and leaves and such with the teacher’s guidance. The completed collage would be about 4’ x 4’.