A new daily ritual with Sarah, Grade K/1, is to put a new leaf on our weather tree each day. I had a nice blank wall and quickly painted up a tree. The idea came from the wonderful book, All Year Round. Each day, Sarah writes the number of the month and colors the leaf in - for example, white for snowy, grey for cloudy (a lot of those these days), blue for rainy, yellow for sunny, a rainbow leaf for a family member's birthday, etc...
It will be fun to see it fill up with a variety of leaves in different colors throughout the year.
Warm wishes, Tonya
What a fantastic idea. Thank you so much for this post. I have just the wall to paint a tree in my home and use the same idea.
ReplyDeleteI bet there is nothing more fun to a kiddo than to be allowed to write on the wall!
ReplyDeleteHow much fun - I hope you post pictures of your tree through out the year so we can see how it changes. I wish I had a few blank walls, maybe a door will work.
ReplyDeleteBlessings, Elizabeth
This is a fantastic idea - love it!
ReplyDeleteLove this idea! Is she making groupings by the month so she can visualize how many leaves belong in one month or is she placing them wherever she wants on the tree?
ReplyDeletewhat a fun idea!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! Your brave to paint on your real wall!
ReplyDelete~Samantha
What a great idea! I might try it myself (as I think my youngest would consider herself too old for such silliness). You could do it on a smaller scale, for example on a piece of butcher paper blu-tacked on the wall, couldn't you? I can't wait to see how it turns out.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea. It will be interesting to see how it changes over the year and the patterns that will form.
ReplyDeleteLove this idea. It looks amazing.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! I look foward to seeing it getting it's leaves!
ReplyDeleteVery cool!
ReplyDeleteI love it! Are the leaves painted on as well? Or how are they otherwise attached? I think that it looks just great. So fun. :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. By the time spring comes your tree will be full. What a great transition.
ReplyDeleteHmmm...that's such a cool idea. How about on some butcher paper tacked to the wall...for the smallest age group (my son!) maybe we could designated pre-cut leaves to certain days based on color. Like, grey pre-cut leaf for windy? Then, he could tape it to the tree and be done with a great momento for the year.
ReplyDeleteHow nifty! I LOVE it!
oh do show us this as the year progresses....what fun it'll be to keep track of the weather this way.
ReplyDeleteI loved this when I saw it in "All Year Round"...thanks for the reminder...I'm going to paint a tree today! My little ones will love this.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful idea!!! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteLove this idea, Isaw it a while ago and had completely forgotten about it, I do that a lot! Such a nice thing for the start of the year too.
ReplyDeleteLove this! Please be sure to post pictures of the tree every once in a while so we can enjoy its "growth" too!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the inspiration. I linked to your post at my own Weather Tree How To, Round Up and Curriculum Connections post.
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