Explain to the children that they are now going to draw the outline of a tree and cover it with the leaves they have collected. They will need to leave space in their tree for the leaves to be pasted on. Paste the leaves onto the trees and compare the space the leaves take up. In groups of two or three children can then compare whose tree has the most leaf space and order them. Explain that they are to design the icing for one of these cakes.
Children choose one of the cakes and draw around the outline of it onto a sheet of paper.
They then paste the smaller pieces of coloured paper onto their cake to create the icing. Discuss the icing patterns the children have designed, comparing the area of the cakes. As a group order the 3 cake shapes from smallest to greatest area. This week we draw around the feet of our family and put them in order them according to which covers the most space.