Appropriate grades or age groups:
Preschool and Younger
Elementary School

Estimated time to complete activity or implement technique:
30 mins to an hour

Materials needed (if applicable):
Construction paper in one or many colors, tape, pen or pencil

Activity set-up/instructions or description of technique:
Draw and cut out a leafless tree about two or three feet in height with a few branches. Attach it to a wall. Then cut out leaves with colored construction paper. With each book that the child reads, write the name of the book on the leaf and let the child attach it to the tree using tape. Watch the tree bloom through the summer and then the leaves can "fall off" in the fall and can start all over.

Other suggestions or comments:
My children enjoy this and it is often hard to keep up with the leaf "making" as they read so much.