Connecting Children with Nature:

A group of preschool children were shown a colour wheel and challenged to find an item along a nature walk in the community to match the colours. When they returned, they classified their nature items into different colour groups and glued them onto the wheel.

Although they thought it would be easy to find an item to represent each colour, they discovered that some colours were found more easily in nature than others. Blue and black were the most difficult colours to find, but green, red and yellow were the easiest, especially in the fall.

The children would like to explore why the leaves change colour at this time of year.