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

Mother's Day and Flowers!

Mother's Day!

Mother's Day Fill in the Blank!

Here is the link for this cute all about Mom Printable

Mom, You Light Up My Life!

Here is the link for this Mom's Day Template

Flowers

Match and Color

Skill:  upper and lowercase letters, matching

I had corresponding lowercase letter cards on the floor.  Each child took turns picking a card, naming the letter and then coloring in the matching uppercase letter.

Here is the link for these Match and Color Flower Printables 

Flower Shape Sort and Scissor Practice

Skills:  shapes, sorting, scissor practice

Here is the link for Shape Sort and Scissor Practice

Spring Trace and Count
Here is the link for Spring Trace and Count

Skills:  number recognition, number writing

Roll, Count and Cover

Skills:  counting, number recognition

Here is the link for this Count and Cover Printable

F is Flower and Counting Flowers

Skills:  letter recognition, counting, numbers 1-5

Here are the links for Flower Begins with the Letter F and Stamp and Count

Flower Projects

Bottle Cap Flowers

Cupcake Liner Flowers

The Letters O, Y and Z

The Letter O

O is for Octopus

Octopus Hand Prints

Octopus Counting Craftivity

Skill:  number recognition, one-to-one correspondence, counting, gluing

O is for Octopus and Octopus Patterns

Skills:  O recognition, counting, patterns

Here is the link for Octopus patterns and find the O's

o is for owl

Owl Matching

Skills:  matching, colors

Here is the link for Owl Matching

Owl Letter Match

Skills:  upper and lowercase letter recognition, matching

Here is the link for Owl Letter Match

                               

Owl Patterns

Skills:  patterns

Here is the link for Owl Patterns

O is for Owl

Skills:  tracing, pre-writing, letter writing

Here is the link for this Owl Tracer

The Letter Y

Y is for Yak

y is for yo-yo

Find the Y's

Skills:  y recognition, 

Here is the link for Finding Y's

                                      

The Letter Z

Z is for Zebra

z is for zipper

Z is for Zoo Animals

Skills:  counting, number recognition, what belongs, letter z recognition, finding differences, what comes next, shapes, tracing

Here is the link for these fun zoo animal activities

Zoo Animal Search

We searched for zoo animals in magazines.  Then the kiddos cut out the zoo animals and made their very own zoo animal collages.

Zz letter sort

Skills:  letter z, upper and lowercase Z recognition, sorting

Here is the link for the Letter Z sort

Cutting Zig-Zag Lines

Skills:  scissor skills

Here is the link for Zig Zag Cutting

Zig-Zag Racers!

Skills:  fine motor skills

I drew 2 zig-zag tracks outside with sidewalk chalk.  I wrote START and FINISH.  The kiddos "raced" each other by pushing small monster trucks on the zig-zag track!