Materials
Four shoe boxes
Four index cards
Four crayons or markers:orange, red, brown and yellow What to do
- Using four index cards, print the name of one of the fur colors listed above on each card. For example, print BROWN with a brown marker. Tape each card onto one of the shoe boxes.
- Put the boxes on the science or discovery table.
- The teacher brings four differently colored leaves into the classroom and shows them to the children. Discuss the four colors and find various objects with those colors in the properroom.
- Take the children on an observation walk to gather various solored leaves.
- Bring the leaves back to the classroom and children take turns placing them in the colorcoded boxes.
More to do
More Science: Keep the boxes on the science table for about a week so children may continue to add leaves and other collected natural items to them. Elaine Commins, Atlanta, GA | 
