How to make a herbarium for an elementary school?

Autumn time - it's time to collect different leaves and weeds for drying. Schoolchildren already in the first class should know how to make a herbarium, which for elementary school is characterized by simplicity and low requirements for registration.

Master-class: how to make a herbarium in school in 1 class

To make an original herbarium in school it is possible both from simple leaves, and with application of colors, a moss and unusual plants.

The traditional way is to dry them. But in order to impress the teacher and classmates, we suggest a little improvisation - the children will like this:

1. For work, we need leaves of wild grapes, although in their place can be any plant.
2. We need white cardboard, paper towels, mallets, acrylic spray.
3. We lay out the leaves on the cardboard, and cover it with several layers of paper towels.
4. We outline the contours of leaves that we will process.
5. We rattling off all the marked details with a hammer.
6. We get here such original prints.
7. It remains to consolidate the resulting images with an acrylic spray.
8. Images need to be signed.
9. That's what we got.

Usually in the first class, babies only collect different plants and, with the help of old books, dry them. After that, you can make applications from them, create collages.

How to apply for a herbarium in a grade 2-3 school?

The older the student becomes, the more scrupulous the work with the herbarium is required of him. Stock up ideas for the embodiment can still in the summer, when flowering field and garden flowers. With proper drying, they retain their colors, and in the competent design look very original.

Herbarium from plants can be issued in the form of a book, using the technique of scrapbooking, or done in a frame.

Sheets are often put in files and placed in a folder-folder. For example, it is possible to classify plants of this area, weeds, grasses and so on.