Fall

Fall

Projects

Fall Dot Tree

Draw or paint a tree trunk with branches.  Trace a circle very lightly - this will be the boundary for your fall leaves!  With a Q-tip, make fall leaves by dipping the Q-tip into red, orange, yellow and brown paint.

Leaf Handprint

Paint a hand a fall color. Press it onto white paper.  Let dry. Then draw on the stem and veins with brown marker.

Paper Plate and Tissue Paper Leaf

Cut a paper plate into a leaf shape.  Cut a stem and vein out of brown construction paper.  Glue squares of tissue paper in fall colors, onto the paper plate leaf.  Glue on the vein and stem.

Salt Dough Fall Shapes

Make a batch of Salt Dough.  Here is the recipe. 

Directions: Mix up the salt dough - 3 cups of flour, 1 cup of salt, 1 1/4 cups of water (plus up to an additional 1/4 cup as needed). Use an electric mixer on medium speed to beat the ingredients together until a ball forms. If the mixture is still crumbly, add more water. Knead the dough until it's smooth. Divide the dough into three balls. Roll out the dough and press with cookie cutters or make into your own shapes. Heat the oven to 225 degrees. Transfer the  dough onto a baking sheet. Bake the plaques for 2 hours, then let them cool completely. I made a half batch and it made a lot.  The picture only shows a sampling of what we made.  Once the shapes were cool, we painted them.  We added gold glitter to the paint for an extra sparkle!  

Beaded Indian Corn

My two older children have made this project before.  We did it again, because they turn out so cute and it is great for fine motor skills.

 Directions - Cut a chenille stem in half and form and x. Wrap one stem around the center of the x twice, leaving a short length of the stem. Bend the three remaining stems to form an Indian corn shape. String beads on each of the three long stems, alternating colors. Bend the end of each stem to secure.   Knot a piece of raffia around the short stem. (You can attach a magnet on the back if you want).

Handprint Pumpkin

We did this project with the 7 month old I babysit!

Learning Project

Fall Pumpkin Patch -Cutting Activity

To work on Keely's scissor skills, I had her cut out different items to add to her pumpkin patch each day.  She loved sticking her pumpkins and leaves to the wall each day!

Learning Activities

Lacing Cards for Fall

Skills:  fine motor

Here is the link for the Fall Lacing Card

Leaf Shadow Matching

Skills:  matching

I found this cute matching activity at totschooling.com  Here is the link

Roll and Say Fall ABC

Skills:  letter recognition

I placed the page on a lid for my cake pan. Keely and I took turns tossing/rolling an acorn onto the page and then saying the letter the acorn landed on!

Here is the link to this fun letter recognition game

Fall Cutting Cards

Skills: scissor skills

Here is the link to this printable- Fall Cutting Cards

Thanksgiving Fun and the Letter D!

Thanksgiving Fun and the Letter D

The Letter D

D is for drums

D is for dinosaur

D is for Duck 

Cut out a green construction paper circle and a yellow triangle (beak)

Paint on hand brown.  When dry glue on head, beak, googly eye and yellow feather.

Write D is for Duck!

Thanksgiving Projects

Finger Print Indian Corn

Cut out two corn shapes from white paper

Cut a length of raffia and hole punch the tops of the corn shapes.

Press fingers into orange, yellow and brown paint and press painted fingers onto the paper

When dry string the raffia through the holes and make a bow

Turkey Hand Print Poem

Print off the poem from Mrs. First Grade

Paint one hand brown and the fingers different colors to make a turkey.  Press the hand onto the bottom space of the paper.  Draw on legs, eyes and beak!

Pumpkin Pie - I am Thankful

Cut out a white and brown circle.  Scallop the edges of the brown circle.  Cut out an orange smaller circle.  Glue the orange circle on top of the brown circle to assemble the pie.  Cut out a "triangle" piece of the pie and glue it on top of the white circle.  Write I am thankful for on the orange circle.  Write what you are thankful for on the white triangle !

I Spy Thanksgiving

I found this cute I Spy printable here!  I laminated ours, so we can reuse it every year.

Paper Plate Pilgrims

Here are the directions for these adorable Paper Plate Pilgrims

Thanksgiving Learning Activities

Pilgrim Hat Name

Skills:  counting letters in your name, name identification

I cut out and assembled Pilgrim Hats.  Keely counted the letters in her name.  Then she found each letter in her name and glued the foam letters to each Pilgrim hat!

Turkey Scissor Practice

Skills:  scissor practice

Here is the link to this Turkey Scissor Practice Printable

The finished products!

Thanksgiving Friends Scissor Practice/Puzzle

Skills:  scissor practice, gluing, matching

This cute activity comes from the same source/link as the Turkey Scissor Practice printable!

Thanksgiving Name Writing/Identification

Skills:  name writing, name identification

This printable can be found along with the Scissor Practice printable above

Tana (age 4) worked on writing her name, Keely (age 2) worked on name identification and spelling

The Letter a Search

Skills: letter a identification, counting

Here is the link to this Thanksgiving Letter Aa activity.

Describe That Turkey Sentence Writing

Skills:  reading, sentence building, word order, writing

My Kindergartner and 4th grade are on vacation this week, so I kept them busy with fun Thanksgiving Activities - My Kindergartner did this one! Here is the link to Describe That Turkey

All of her choices                                    The finished sentence

The finished Sentence and Picture

Turkey Shape Graph

Skills:  shapes, coloring, graphing, coloring

My Kindergartner completed this - I have to keep her busy!!

Here is the link to this Turkey Shape Graph

Turkey Number Cards - Count It and Clip It!

Skills:  Counting, number recognition

My 2 almost 3 year old did this activity.  She had fun counting the cute turkeys and then clipping the correct numbers with the clothespins!  Here is the link to these fun Turkey Number Cards

Clipping the matching number

The Clipped Number Cards

Making 10 - Addition!

Skills:  addition, making 10, fact families

Here is another activity my 6 year old did this week!  Here is the link to this cute Making 10 Turkey

Turkey Addition

Skills: addition

I'm keeping my kindergartner busy - she had fun finding the sums and following the code to color the cute, Thanksgiving turkey!

This cute coloring addition activity is in the same packet (link) as the Making 10 Turkey above!

Beaded Indian Corn

This is a repost from last year! We made this Indian Corn again this year as gifts for Grandparents!!
Day 2 of the week - The theme this week is Thanksgiving. The letter of the week is U, u and the number of the week is 19

Project - Beaded Indian Corn - Directions - Cut a chenille stem in half and form and x. Wrap one stem around the center of the x twice, leaving a short length of the stem. Bend the three remaining stems to form an Indian corn shape. Connor and Lauren's turn - string beads on each of the three long stems, alternating colors. Bend the end of each stem to secure. (I let Connor and Lauren pattern their own beads - they did a different pattern for each stem). My turn again - Knot a piece of raffia around the short stem. (You can attach a magnet on the back if you want). Materials Needed - scissors, 12-inch chenille stem, tri-beads - red, gold, orange, brown, yellow, clear, Raffia, glue - to help with attaching the Raffia, magnet - optional.

Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart)
Today's Activities:

The letter U, u- writing, recognition, following directions
The number 19- recognition, writing, counting
Number Review - recognition, counting, ordering, following directions, writing