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

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

Christmas Fun and the letter N!

Christmas Fun and the Letter N!

Letter N

N is for Nest

n is for noodles

 Christmas Projects

Thumbprint Candy Cane

Press thumbs into red and white paint and press the painted thumbs onto black paper in the shape of a candy cane.  When dry add a red bow!

Hand Print Baby Jesus Scene

Paint one hand brown and press onto blue paper.  When dry, press cover thumb with tan paint and press onto the brown hand print.  Paint one finger with tan paint and press it above the thumbprint to make baby Jesus.  Cut out a star and color yellow.  Cut raffia into pieces and glue under baby Jesus.  Glue the star above the manger scene. 

Paper Plate Santa

Cut 1/4 off the top of a paper plate.  Color or paint the inside circle tan or flesh color.  Cut out a red, circle nose and white mustache.  Glue on googly eyes.  Cut out a red triangle and long, skinny white rectangle and a white circle.  Assemble the hat and glue to the paper plate.  Cut out a larger, red triangle, white rectangle, black, rectangle and yellow belt buckle.  Assemble the pieces to make Santa's suit.  

Bow Tie Pasta Wreath

Dye bow tie pasta green - in a small baggie, add a small amount of vinegar and green food coloring (we added some green glitter).  Shake until coated and then dump out on paper towel to dry.  

When dry assemble, the pasta into a wreath and glue the pasta into pieces.  Add a bow!

Cardboard Tube Poinsettia

Cut a cardboard tube into 5 1/2 inch pieces.  Paint red.  When dry, cover with glue and glitter.  Let dry then glue a white or silver bead to the middle of the poinsettia.  Punch a hole and add a green ribbon for hanging.

Christmas Learning Activities

Gingerbread Cut and Paste Shape Matching

Skills:  shapes, matching

Here is the link for the Gingerbread Shape Matching

Tree Sorting

Skills:  sorting, matching

Here is the link for the Tree Sort and Match

Christmas Mix-and-Match Puzzles

Skills:  matching, sorting

Here is the link for this fun Mix-and-Match Puzzle

Christmas Tree Counting Book

Skills:  counting, number recognition, emergent readers

Here is the link for this Christmas Tree Counting emergent reader

Christmas Name Tree

Skills:  name recognition, counting letters

Santa Can . . .

Skills:  writing

Here is the link for this Santa Can writing activity

Christmas Light Color Match

Skills:  sorting, matching, colors

Christmas Ornament Letter Match

Skills: letter recognition, letter matching, cutting, pasting

Here is the link for the Christmas Ornament Letter Match