WEEKLY QUEST · No. 1 · LEAF DETECTIVES
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Leaves are green because they're full of chlorophyll, the part that turns sunlight into food for the tree. In fall the days get shorter and the tree stops making chlorophyll. As the green fades, yellow and orange show through. They were hiding under the green all summer. Reds are different: the tree makes those fresh in fall, most of all after sunny days and cool nights.
What's in the Quest
Move: the Leaf Hunt
Find leaves in as many colours as you can. Then play Wind and Tree: one person is the tree, the other is the wind. Every "gust!", the tree drops a leaf.
Make: hidden colours
Tear a green leaf into a jar, a grown-up adds rubbing alcohol, stand a coffee-filter strip in it, and watch the yellow climb the paper. It was in the leaf all along.
Make: leaf collage
Press your leaves flat overnight, glue them inside a pumpkin, acorn, apple, tree or owl, and add sparkles last. The full-page outlines are in the PDF.
★ If you want more
Turn your leaf tally into a bar graph, measure your biggest and smallest leaf, and invent a sorting rule nobody else would think of.
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