colouring fall leaves

This week's Saturday activity: a leaf colouring sheet and identification guide for you to download and print. We like to do leaf scavenger hunts in the fall and I started sketching them out so I could remember which leaf is which, and wound up making this colouring sheet set. The guide is in French & English.

ringo atelier

Ringo atelier is a creative studio, and resource, for children and their blog is lovely, too. Lots of their drawing activities have a PDF to print out and do at home. They have loads of pages to colour and develop, like this invent the fruit that goes with this leaf, which we tried yesterday during a rainy day

and this construct a city (this one is meant to be for collage, but we painted and scribbled them)

There are also some really great projects that we haven't yet tried, like the à la manière de section, with projects inspired by the work of artists like David Hockney or Sonia Delaunay. I think the David Hockney one is perfect for July, and I will put in a little translation here (find the original project here). Observe water (in your bath, swimming pool, by the sea or edge of a lake...), in the style of painter David Hockney. Have fun trying to reproduce the waves, the reflections, the colour of the water. To do this, use watered-down paint, sponges, tissues and different papers. Look carefully at this painting of a swimming pool (below, left)

The 1 livre—1 book section has a nice library of books, too.

Foggy fun

If you're new to our blog, you might not know about our colouring pages, which you can download, print and colour at home. We have one for Foggy that you can find here.

Colouring page for Foggy

Here is a colouring page for Foggy, for you to print out and colour at home. Have fun!

Colouring page for Sunny

Here is a colouring page from our second book, Sunny.

Colouring page for Snowy & Chinook

Over the next few weeks we'll be putting up activities from Windy, Sunny, Snowy & Chinook and Foggy for you to download.

Here is a colouring page from Snowy & Chinook.

If you have any trouble with the link, please email us at windyandfriends at gmail dot com.