The kids like that these were puffy and sticky, the texture entertained them nearly as much as playing with them on the light table. They really liked the versatility of these and the kids created pumpkin patches and a forest trees with falling trees.

Next we also added a tree outline and decorative fall acrylic leaves.

I grabbed a pack of these fall accents on a trip to Michaels, they cost about $4.  It includes multi color leaves and red/green apples. I have lots of ideas to use these in other counting and learning activities so I think I’ll get way more than one use out of my $4.

I added the leaves and a tree outline to our light table loose parts basket. They went well with the gel window clings and moving these little leaves all around is such a great fine motor activity.

To make the tree just simply find one via Google search (“winter tree outline”), download, and print. I colored mine brown, cut it out, and laminated it.  To be honest, you don’t have to cut it out. I hadn’t planed on cutting mine out but I accidentally printed it on scratch paper and if I didn’t cut out the scratch paper doodles would show through on the light table. It was a pain to cut out but I like how it turned out!

The colors look so bright and bold on the light table! My kids have been playing with these for over a week. The gel clings did have to be replaced once, my toddler dropped it on the dog and we learned it’s really hard to get dog hair off gel window clings. Good thing they are sold at dollar stores!

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