{"id":3486,"date":"2012-10-18T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3486"},"modified":"2016-09-27T11:23:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T16:23:28","slug":"diy-fun-leaf-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3486","title":{"rendered":"DIY Fun: Leaf Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8190\/8098456010_fc9da1ef61_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0005\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This one is another really quick, easy, and free DIY activity. We had some cardboard left over from an old box that we were tossing into the recycling bin, when I decided instead to cut it up and save it for later. And later turned out to be today! Instead of tossing this nice flat piece, we made a leaf match game. And when the boys are finished with this, we can toss it into the recycling bin with no regrets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Materials Needed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>flat piece of cardboard or large piece of paper<\/li>\n<li>marker or pen<\/li>\n<li>various leaves<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8466\/8098456190_037e8cdb79_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0007\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I picked up some leaves from the yard and found enough varying shapes to make the board relatively easy for my three-year-old to figure out. But my five-year-old enjoyed it just as much!<\/p>\n<p>Simply trace around each leaf pattern, then place the leaves inside a big book to press them until you are ready to start the matching.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8466\/8098456364_047a68dd12_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0009\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8332\/8098456610_907bcb9c27_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0010\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8183\/8098456780_2dbd5871a5_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0012\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8183\/8098457234_02397f6830_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0013\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8230; preferably a big, heavy book!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When you are ready to start, place the leaves (or anything else you choose to use) to one side of the game board, and let the kids match up the leaves to each shape.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8463\/8098457496_8179c73693_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0019\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8047\/8098448897_7f9004e37b_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0020\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8047\/8098449003_8dc8d1cfb3_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0023\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8194\/8098449187_8e2492f9de_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0028\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>(fyi- I don&#8217;t recommend using flowers, as the petals will fall right off. Oops.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"text-align: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8191\/8098449371_1c54a07be6_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0031\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Next goal? Work on sharing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>P.s.- Don&#8217;t feel limited by leaves. You can also use any household items or kitchen tools or even different toys to trace around for just as much fun!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one is another really quick, easy, and free DIY activity. We had some cardboard left over from an old box that we were tossing into the recycling bin, when I decided instead to cut it up and save it for later. And later turned out to be today! Instead of tossing this nice flat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3486\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DIY Fun: Leaf Match&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,187],"tags":[119,173],"class_list":["post-3486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy-fun","category-motherhood","tag-diy","tag-green-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3486"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12380,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions\/12380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}