• Autumn Shapes
  • All you need to know about this activity
  • Step 1 and 2: Go for a short walk
  • Step 3: Shapes of seeds - Acorn
  • Step 4: Tracery of branches
  • Step 5: Looking at textures
  • Step 6: Looking at berries
  • What next?
• A Winter Walk
• Making Faces in Places - A Smile a Day
• Photographic Scavenger Hunt
• Ten-Minute Walk

Step 1: Go for a short walk

 

• Go for a short walk to a green space near you. Even in cities there are many green spaces and many streets are lined with trees. It’s easy to walk past these areas day in and day out and stop noticing your surroundings

 

Step 2: Leaf shapes

Below are examples of 3 easily identifiable types of tree common to the UK.

• See if you can identify them where you are, by looking at the leaf shapes. Record your discovery – You could draw round each leaf, sketch it, take a rubbing or photograph it
  
  

Oak leaf: 

 

 

Horse Chestnut leaf:

 

 

 

Sycamore leaf: