Halloween

Halloween

Halloween Projects

Monster Sun Catcher

Here is the link to this project

Tissue Paper Plate Pumpkin

Paper Plate Black Cat

Footprint Candy Corn

Tissue Paper Bat Suncatcher

Footprint Ghost

Jack-O-Lantern Sun Catcher

Fingerprint Bat Silhouette

Beaded Pumpkin

Here are the directions for the beaded pumpkin 

Shine With the Light of Jesus

Here is the link for the poem 

Handprint Spider

Ghost Necklace

Here is the link to this original post when we made these necklaces with my son many years earlier!

Craft Foam Bat

Learning Activities

Witches Hat memory

Here is the link to this Witches Hat Memory game

Halloween Muffin Tin Counting

Skills:  counting, number recognition 1-12

Keely counted out Halloween stickers to place in the number cups

Halloween Count and Stick

Skills:  counting, number recognition

Keely was having so much fun with the cute Halloween stickers, so I quickly made her this activity on scrap paper!

Pumpkin ABC Match

Skills:  upper and lowercase letters, letter matching and letter recognition

Halloween Letter Writing

Skills:  letter writing, ABC order

We have cute Halloween cookie cutters. Keely and I had fun tracing the shapes and cutting them out, so she could practice writing her letters.  So far she can write her letters from A-H!!

Halloween Patterns

Skills:  patterns

Again, we used our fun Halloween cookie cutters to work on making patterns!

Halloween Shapes Counting

Skills:  counting, number order

Here is one last activity using our fun Halloween shapes!

Halloween Counting

Skills:  number recognition, counting, 1-5

Here is the link for this counting sheet

Which is Different? 

Skills:  same and different

Here is the link for these Halloween Which is Different Activities

Halloween roll and color

Skills:  counting, number recognition

Here is the link for Halloween Roll and Color ( we used Halloween Stickers)

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

The Letter P and Pumpkins!

The Letter P and Pumpkins!

The Letter P

P is for pumpkin

P is for pirate

P is for penguin

Pumpkin Projects

Hand Print Pumpkin

Paint one hand orange and press onto paper.  Paint 1 thumb green and press onto the top of the hand print pumpkin to make the stem.

Cut and Paste Pumpkin

Skills:  scissor practice, gluing, letter P

Print out or draw a pumpkin pattern onto white paper.  Cut out small rectangular/square pieces of orange paper and a few brown pieces.

Directions:  Cut out the pumpkin

Glue the pumpkin to a colored piece of construction paper.

Glue the cut pieces of orange paper to the pumpkin.

Glue a couple pieces of cut, brown construction paper for the stem.

Write (or trace) the letter P above the finished pumpkin.

Paper Plate Pumpkin

Cut out the center of a small paper plate.  

Cut two leaves from green felt.  Twist 1/2 of a green chenille stem.  Use the other half to make the hanger for the pumpkin.  Punch a hole in the top of the plate and in the bottom of the leaves.

Directions:  paint the paper plate orange. When dry - string the chenille stems through the punched out holes in the leaves and through the paper plate.  Twist together to make the stem and hanger for the pumpkin plate.

Lego Painted Pumpkin

Cut out pumpkin pattern from white paper.

Directions:  Press a Lego into orange paint and then onto the pumpkin.  Continue until the pumpkin is covered.  Repeat with brown paint for the stem.

Pumpkin Learning Activities

Pumpkin Name Puzzles

Skills:  name writing, name recognition,  gluing

Cut out a pumpkin from orange paper. Draw sections onto the pumpkin and write your child's name.  I wrote Keely's name, but had Joey work on tracing his name.  Cut the sections - or have your child cut the sections.  Lay out the sections in order and then mix them up!  Have your child find each letter in his name and place them in order.  Then glue the puzzle onto another piece of paper.

Pumpkin Letter Matching

Skills:  Upper and Lowercase letter Matching, letter identification

Cut out small pumpkins shapes from orange paper.  Write a matching upper and lowercase letter on each pumpkin.  Cut each pumpkin apart separating the upper and lowercase letters.  

Directions:  Glue the matching  upper and lowercase letters to a piece of paper.

Pumpkin Name Tracing

Skills:  name writing, name identification, gluing

Cut out small, orange pumpkins and write the child's name, so they can trace over each letter.  

Directions:  Trace each letter.  Glue each pumpkin onto a strip of paper to spell out your name.

Pumpkin Find the Letter Pp

Skills:  letter P, letter identification, following directions

I found this cute Pumpkin and letter P activity at 3boysandadog.com  Here is the direct Link.

Directions:  Find the P p's the page.  (circle the P's, use a dot dabber, or use finger in an ink pad)