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Leaf Prints

Application:

God made the trees and plants, and each one of us.

Memory Verse:

"God saw everything He made was very good" (Genesis 1:31).

Materials Needed:

Two A4 sheets of paper.
Several types of leaves (thin ones with pronounced ribs).
Thick crayons.

Age Group:

Preschool to Grade 2.

 

  
Making leaf prints

Introduction:

Trees and plants are gifts from God.  If you go to a desert, all you see is sand and rocks.  It looks very bare and there are no trees and plants to make it interesting.  Next time you play on the grass in your garden, look at all the trees and flowers that God made.

Today I have leaves from different trees and shrubs.  If you look at the back of the leaves you will see their veins.  God made the veins so that water from the roots of the plant can reach the very tip of the leaf.  This helps the leaves make food for the plant so that it can grow strong and healthy.

This just like our food which makes each one of you strong and healthy.  And so we are going to take some of these leaves and put them under a sheet of paper so that we can make leaf print pictures.

Activity:

  1.  Give each child two sheets of paper, a crayon and several leaves.

  2.  Let the children arrange one of more leaves upside down on one sheet of paper.

  3.  Then carefully cover the leaves with the second sheet of paper.

  4.  The children must then rub the top sheet of paper with a crayon to bring out the leaf prints.

To Finish:

Your pictures show how well leaves are made, and we can see the veins running down the leaf.  These veins are like yours.  If you look at the back of my hands you can see all the veins running down to my fingers.  Now let's thank God for all the trees and plants He made so carefully and for making us wonderfully well!

God bless.

 

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