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 Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Projects

Tissue Paper Caterpillar

Cut red and green tissue paper into circles.  Apply Mod Podge to the circles to make a caterpillar and to secure them to the paper.  When dry draw on legs and facial features

Sponge Painted Caterpillar

Beaded Caterpillar

Skills:  fine motor

Learning Projects

Caterpillar Name Writing

Skills:  name writing, counting letters in your name, 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Patterns

Skills:  patterns

Here is the link for these pattern cards and templates

If I were the very hungry caterpillar . . . 

Skills:  writing, tracing, beginning writing

Here is the link for the writing template

Learning Activities

Caterpillar Tracing

Skills:  tracing, prewriting writing

Here is the link for this Fun Caterpillar

What is Different and Letter Tracing

Skills:  finding differences, tracing, letters, beginning writing

Here is the link for the What is Different, Letter Tracing and What Comes Next

What Comes Next

Skills:  what comes next

Roll and Draw a Caterpillar

Skills:  counting, following directions, spatial recognition,shapes

Here is the link for Roll and Draw a Caterpillar

Drawing and rolling

Earth Day

Earth Day

Projects

Earth Man!

Cut a blue circle out of construction paper

Cut out green shapes 

Cut out a red heart

Cut 4 green strips and accordion fold each strip

Directions:  Glue the green shapes and heart onto the blue circle

Glue on googly eyes and draw a smile

Glue on the arms and legs

Hand Print Earth

Cut out a blue circle

Paint a hand green and press onto the circle, paint on other green shapes to make the earth!

Painted Earth

Cut a circle out of white paper

Paint the circle - earth- blue and green

Earth Day!

Create a document just like below.

Cut squares of green and blue tissue paper

Glue the tissue paper squares onto the blank circle to make earth

Earth Day Tracing

I created a Word Document for my almost 3 year old nephew to work on his tracing skills.  We also did a little counting and name writing!

Spring!!

Spring

Projects

Fork Print Flowers
Press a plastic fork into paint
Press the tines of the fork onto a piece of paper to make flowers
Use green paint to make the flower's stems

Melted Snowman
Paint a white BLOB with paint
Glue on arms, eyes, nose, hat and scarf - cut from construction paper

Hand Print Flower
Paint hand green and press onto a paper plate
Press pointer finger into paint (any color) and press onto the plate to make flowers

Rainbow Ribbon
Cut a rainbow shape from white paper
Draw the rainbow and then color it in with the appropriate colors
Tape ribbon onto the back, bottom side of the rainbow

Robin Footprint
Paint foot brown
Press onto paper
Paint the belly of the robin red and draw on beak, eye, and feet

Rainbow Cloud

Draw a cloud shape onto white paper

Cut colored ribbon into long pieces.

Directions:  Cut the cloud out and draw on a face

Tape the ribbon to the back of the cloud

Learning Activities

Flower Counting
Skills:  counting, one-to-one matching, number recognition
Draw 5 stems and label the stems 1-5
Directions:  Glue on the appropriate number of buttons for each flower

Tulip Name Writing
Skills:  name writing
Cut out tulip shapes and stem shapes
Glue the tulips and stems to paper
Write your name on the tulips

Flower Name Writing
Skills:  name writing

Caterpillar Counting
I created a chart on a Word document with then numbers 1-5 along with 5 caterpillar heads!
Directions:  Say the number.
Glue that same amount of pom poms onto the caterpillar
Draw on legs!

Letter Garden
I cut out flower shapes from colored construction paper
Directions:  Write upper and lowercase letters on the flowers.
Glue the matching upper and lower case flowers above/below each other.

Add stems with a green marker.

Spring Flower CVC Words
I created a document with flower shapes on it
I laminated the Spring Flower CVC Words page so we could reuse it
I cut out flowers from construction paper and wrote beginning consonants on each flower
I wrote i and t on the 2nd and 3rd flowers
Directions:  Make CVC words on the flower mat using the paper flowers!

Addie made the word sit

Making another word

Apple Fun!

Apple Fun

Projects/Learning Activities

Apple Mobile

Skills:  pasting, following directions, color recognition

I had a template for this -from who know where!

I traced and cut out two of each piece.  Tana and Addie cut out some of the pieces too.

We taped a piece of yarn down the middle of each piece and then glued the matching pieces on top to create the apple mobile!

 Book Connection

Apple Trouble

By: Ragnhild Scamell and Mechael Terry

 

Craft Stick Apple

Skills:  Gluing,  writing name, counting

Glue 6 red, craft sticks to a piece of tagboard (just enough to keep the craft sticks secure)

Cut a stem from green, craft foam and glue onto the craft sticks

Write child's name on the bottom

 

a is for Apple!

Skills: 

 lowercase a, letter writing, writing, color recognition, cutting, pasting, counting, following directions

Draw a lowercase a onto red, construction paper

Draw a leaf and stem shape onto green and brown construction paper

Cut out 5 seeds from black construction paper

Directions:

Cut the letter a out

Cut out the stem and leaf

Glue the a and stem and leaf to a piece of white construction paper

Glue the 5 seeds in the "belly" of the a

Write - a is for . . . .

 

Paper Plate Apple Core!

Skills:  painting, counting, following directions, color recognition

Cut a paper plate to look like an apple core

Cut out brown stems and green leaves

Directions: 

Pain the top and the bottom of the plate red

Press fingertips into a black ink pad to make the seeds

When dry, staple the stem and leaf to the top of the apple core

Book Connection

The Fall Festival

By Mercer May