Hello everyone! We hope you are all excited for Let It Fall by Maryann Cocca-Leffler.
Michelle and I have put together a bunch of fun activities and crafts for the little ones. Starting on Tuesday, October 1, the kits are available to pick up for our online storytime this month!
Enjoy a FREE copy of the book and more!
"Let It Fall" by Maryann Cocca-Leffler
"The leaves turn red, brown, and orange, then drift down from the trees. It is time to go apple picking and on hayrides at the county fair. Fall is finally here! With soft colored art, adorable children, and colorful outdoor scenes, LET IT FALL celebrates all the seasonal awe of autumn."
Visit https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=324409849479044 to watch the story read by Belleville Public Library. Then, enjoy the activities!
Kits include:
a FREE copy of Let It Fall
information page
colors game (5 colored leaves)
rhymes/song pages with weblinks (instrument included)
2 activity pages
2 coloring pages
Scarecrow sticker craft
3 magnets from the story
Leaf stickers
Here are the following pages that you will receive with your kit!
HANDOUT GAMES – play with included leaf handouts
Can You Show Me…?
(Tune: “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush”)
Can you show me the red leaf?
Red leaf, red leaf?
Can you show me the red leaf?
And wave it in the air?
Orange… yellow… green… brown
Hold It High – Choose one leaf from handouts
Hold your leaf high and stand
Now wave it around in gestures grand!
Hold your leaf below your chin
Now hold it way up high again
Hold your leaf against your nose
Now touch the leaf to your toes
Touch your leaf to the ground
Now wave that leaf all around!
Hold your leaf in front of you
Now turn around – one time, two!
Hold your leaf and jump up high!
Now let your leaf fly fly fly (throw it in the air)
SONGS & INSTRUMENT – use included instruments
Autumn Leaves are Falling Down by The Learning Station
Let’s Have Fall Fun! by Jack Hartmann
Autumn Song by The Kiboomers
Autumn: Seasons Song by Wormhole Learning
BOUNCE RHYME (bounce along with child in lap)
Falling Leaves
(Tune: “Jingle Bells”)
Falling leaves, falling leaves
Falling to the ground
Falling leaves, falling leaves
Blowing round and round
Way up high, way down low
Drifting fast and slow
Falling leaves, falling leaves
Oh, how the wind does blow!
ACTION RHYMES
Way Up High In An Apple Tree
Way up high in an apple tree,
(Hold up both your hands and spread your fingers like a tree)
Five red apples smiled down at me.
(Hold up 5 fingers)
I shook that tree as hard as I could,
(Pretend to shake the tree)
Down came an apple!
(catch apple and bite it)
Mmmmm it was good!
(Rub your tummy in a circle)
Four red apples smiled down at me...
Three red apples smiled down at me...
Two red apples smiled down at me...
One red apple smiled down at me...
Way up high in that apple tree,
No more apples smiling down at me.
(Hide your hands behind your back.)
I shook that tree as hard as I could.
Down came no apples! They’re gone for good!
(Hands out to sides with “what” hands, shoulders up and down on “gone/good”)
Way up high in that apple tree,
(Hold up both your hands and spread your fingers like a tree)
No more apples left for me.
(“Sad” face and pose)
The Leaves Are Falling Down
(Tune: “The Farmer in the Dell”)
The leaves are falling down
The leaves are falling down
Red, yellow, orange, and brown
The leaves are falling down
The leaving are blowing ‘round…
Five Stuffed Scarecrows
Five stuffed scarecrows in the corn rows,
(stand straight and tall)
The first one said, “Go away crows!”
(make waving motions)
The second one said, “I am very small.”
(crouch down low)
The third one said, “I am standing tall.”
(stand on tiptoe)
The fourth one said, “On my head I wear a hat.”
(put pretend hat on head)
The fifth one said, “By my feet runs a cat.”
(run in place)
Five stuffed scarecrows in the corn rows,
Moving left and right as the autumn wind blows.
(sway & move arms left and right)
Orange Pumpkin
(Tune: “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”)
Pumpkin, pumpkin orange and round,
(stretch arms out and form a circle)
In the pumpkin patch on the ground.
(crouch down)
Once you were a seed so small,
(pretend to hold a seed)
Now you are a great orange ball!
(make huge circle with hands)
Pumpkin, pumpkin orange and round,
Rolling, rolling on the ground.
(make rolling motion with arms)
EXTRA LINK!
Maryann Cocca-Leffler’s site: https://www.maryanncoccaleffler.com/
We hope you enjoy these activities and would love to hear what you thought of the book! We also hope you enjoyed the extra links. Remember, you can comment here on this website, email us at swantonpl@gmail.com, or come in and turn in a physical copy!