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

Apples

Apples

Projects

 Apple Sun Catcher

Paint a coffee filter with watercolor paints.  Let dry.  With red construction paper, cut out an apple shape and cut out the middle leaving a border.  Then, glue or tape the painted coffee filter to apple.

Paper Strip Apple

Cut 8-10 strips of red construction paper.  Punch holes on each end.  String green or brown pipe cleaner through the bottom holes of the paper strips.  Secure with tape.  Then, string the pipe cleaner through the top holes of the paper strips.  Spread out the strips as you are stringing.  Add a green leaf with hole punched in it.  Secure with tape.  Curl the pipe cleaner.

Learning Activities

The following learning activities come from the Apple Picking Pre-K Fun Pack  I did not post all of the activities this Fun Pack has to offer, but there are many great learning activities!

Tracing Shapes

Skills:  tracing, shapes, letters

Which one is Biggest?

Skills:  Biggest

ABC Maze

Skills:  ABC order and recognition

We also did the lowercase maze!

Letter A Apple Sorting
Here is the link for A is for Apple Sorting  We did have tree on the wall to make it look like an apple tree, but it kept on falling down from the wall!  

Skills:  letter a, upper and lowercase a, sorting

Apple Lacing Card

Here is the link for this cute Apple Lacing Card

Skills:  fine motor

Apple Counting Number Matching

Here is the link for Apple Number Match

Skills:  number recognition and matching

Easter and the letters U and J and K!

Easter Projects and Learning Activities 

& the letters J, U and K!

Easter Projects

Glitter Easter Eggs

Cover Styrofoam eggs with glue and then sprinkle with glitter. 

Fork Painted Chick

Press the tines of a fork into yellow paint and press onto white paper. When dry add features.  

Carrot Footprints

Egg Shaped Bunny

Craft Stick Chick

Handprint Easter Lilies

Easter Lacing Cards

Here is the link for these lacing cards

Easter Learning Activities

Easter Line Tracing and Bunny Match

Skills:  pre-writing, the same 

Here is the link for these 4 Easter early learning activities

Easter Egg Match and Find the Difference

Skills:  matching, different

Egg Numbers, and Which One is Different?

Skills:  numbers recognition, matching, different

Here is the link for these 4 Easter activities from Sparklingbuds

Easter Patterns

Skills:  patterns

Letter E Maze!

Skills:  letter E, letter recognition

Easter Scissor Practice

Skills:  cutting

Here is the link for this Easter Themed Scissor Practice

Jelly Bean Sorting

Skills:  colors, sorting, counting, most, least

Here is the link for the Jelly Bean Sort

Line Tracing and What Comes Next

Skills:  prewriting, what comes next

Here is the link for these 4 Easter activities seen below

Scissor Practice

Skills:  cutting

Alphabet Trace

Skills:  letters, tracing, writing

Find the Same Easter Object

Skills:  classifying, the same

Here is the link

Easter Patterns

Skills:  patterns

Here is the link for these Easter Patterns

The Letter J

J is for Jellyfish

j is for jellybean

The Letter U

U is for Unicorn

u is for umbrella

The Letter K

K is for Kangaroo

k is for kite

The Letter S and Spiders

The Letter S and Spiders

The Letter S

S is for Spider

S is for Snake

S is for Stars

Spider Projects

Spider Hand Prints

Paint both hands black - do not paint the thumbs.  Press hands onto paper one hand at a time overlapping the palms.  When dry, glue on two googly eyes.

Clothespin Spiders

Cut a circle from black, craft foam.

Directions:  Paint 8 clothespins silver - or use glitter, Glue multiple googly eyes onto the circle craft foam.  When the clothespins are dry, clip them onto the circle to make the spider's 8 legs.

Spider Suckers

Take two black chenille stems and cut each stem in half, so you have 4 pieces for each sucker. Align the 4 chenille stem pieces and place a sucker in the center. Wrap 1 side of the chenille stems  all the way around the sucker's stick.  Pull tight.  Bend the ends to make feet.  Use glue to attach googly eyes.

 Spider Hats

Here is the link for this cute Spider Hat project - she gives great instructions!

The Kiddos wearing their hats

Learning Activities

Spider Letter Matching

Skills:  letter recognition, letter matching 

Here is the link for Spider Letter Matching

S is for Spider

Skills:  letter S, letter writing

Here is the link for this Spider Paper

Spider Matching

Skills:  matching

Here is the link for Spider Matching

Size Sequencing With Spiders!

Skills:  size sequencing, scissor practice

Here is the link to this Spider Size Sequencing Activity.  It is under the Tot Pack Section.  There are many more wonderful activities on this site!

Spider Web Lacing Cards

Skills:  fine motor

Here is the link for these cute Spider Web Lacing Cards

Spider Colors

Skills:  Color recognition, coloring

Here is the link to this adorable Spider Colors Book

Spider Web Scissor Practice

Skills:  Scissor practice

I created this scissor activity for the kiddos to practice their cutting skills.

Spider Number Matching

Skills:  number recognition, counting, number matching

Here is the link to this Spider Themed Number Matching activity