Look What I Did with a Leaf!

by Morteza E. Sohi

Book Overview

Perfect for young art and craft lovers, learn how to use nature's bounty to create fanciful animals and natural scenes

In Look What I Did with a Leaf , readers will develop their artistic eye and soon learn to see the artistic possibilities that surround them. Morteza E. Sohi gives careful directions on how to choose leaves for shape and color, how to arrange them in an animal form, and how to preserve the finished work of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802774407
• ISBN13: 9780802774408
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 9.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

An Incredible Book.

I am a children's librarian and this book is one of our holdings. It's an incredible little book. It's absolutely wonderful for the classroom but it's also great for anyone who wants to use nature to create some wonderful, artsy pictures, crafts, etc. Let your imagination run with this little gem. I purchased this for my daughter who teaches first grade. She also has children of her own and when they recieved it, it was a huge hit!!! In my opinion, this is an absolute little marvel. I highly reccomend this book. It's great for anyone.

So Much Fun!!

My mother is a school teacher and one afternoon she came home with this book...mind you, I was 21 at the time... we had so much fun walking through the neighborhood looking for the different leaves, it was like a treasure hunt!! Once we found everything we needed, it was so cool to watch it turn into the animal we had picked. I enjoyed the experience so much that I wanted to buy the book for my boys (2 and 3). As a future homeschooling mom, I am excited that it covers two subjects; art and science! I hope that they will enjoy the experience as much as I did.... I would also suggest laminating your leaf animals and putting them in the window....they look like stained glass....

great book

I like the book. I am a 2nd grade school teacher. I will use the book to give the children ideas to create their own picture from leaves.

Terrific book to do art projects using leaves

This is a terrific book to use during the Autumn months for brightly colored leaves but can be used anytime of the year. The book shows a field guide different kinds of leaves which is helpful but depends on where you live. It also shows you how to do these leaf creations. It's perfect for nature walks and collecting your leaves getting your child's imagination to create terrific works of art and is also another terrific way of teaching your child how even things in nature can be recycled. Using leaves this books shows you how to make: cow, butterfly, elephant, turtle, owl, parrot, rooster, fox, frog, rat, peacock, fish (from the cover)

An excellent combination of art and science.

I am a teacher who has used Look What I Did With a Leaf during my science study of trees. The children collected leaves from the school campus, sorted them, and talked about their purpose as a part of the tree. The children then used their leaves to create leaf creatures which they used to make leaf print t-shirts. This book was a hit with the children and certainly served us well by getting their creative juices flowing.