Printmaking lesson by Ms. Josie Whitley

For this lesson we traced our hand on brown construction paper to make the trunk. We then mixed our colors we mixed orange and green colors.  Then we practiced stamping corks and apples. After practicing we moved onto to our tree. We used corks to make the leaves on the tree using warm colors. Then we moved on to making pumpkins with the apples. All of these we fall or warm colors. We added green tops to the pumpkins.
As extension activities you could incorporate taking about the color wheel. You could also look at tints and shades of the colors as well. Another idea is to talk about the different seasons and which colors leaves would have in the spring, summer and fall. You can also talk about trees and the changes they go through in the year. You could also talk about pumpkins and how they start from a seed, using this for a science lesson.