The Letter C and Fall Fun!

The Letter C and Fall Fun!

The Letter C

C is for cookie

C is for caterpillar

C is for car

C is for Corn

Paint one hand yellow and press onto white paper.  Paint both hands green and press onto white paper - somewhat overlapping the palms.  When dry cut around the hand prints and glue onto a piece of construction paper to make the hand print corn!

C is for Crayon - letter writing

Skills:  C letter writing, 

Tana practiced writing the letter C and c.  Cc is for crayon!

Fall Projects

Fall Shape Tree

Skills:  shapes, colors, counting, gluing

Cut out a tree trunk from brown construction paper.

Cut out squares, circles, triangles and rectangles from colored paper.

Glue the tree trunk to a piece of construction paper.  Glue on the different shapes (leaves).

Cork Painted Fall Tree

Cut out a brown tree trunk and glue to white paper.  Press a wine cork into red, yellow and orange paint.  Press the cork on the paper to make Fall Leaves!

Fall Learning Activities

Leaf Patterns

Skills:  Patterns, name writing

I cut out leaves from orange, yellow and red construction paper.  

Tana wrote her name on the top and then made her own leaf patterns.

Keely did her own pattern too!

Leaf Shadow Matching

Skills:  matching

I found this cute matching activity at totschooling.com  Here is the link

Leaf Scissor Practice

Skills:  scissor practice, name writing

I traced leaf patterns onto construction paper and had Joey and Tana cut out the leaves and glue the leaves to construction paper.  

ABC Fall Family Tree

Skills: scissor practice, writing, letters, patterns, counting, ordinal numbers, addition, most and least

Addie was home sick from school the other day, so we did a fun Fall Project for school.  

I cut out the fall leaves.  Addie wrote the letters of the alphabet on the leaves.  She only wrote the letters that people in our family start with.  Then she wrote each family members name on the corresponding leaves.  I traced Addie's forearm and hand onto brown paper and she cut it out.  Addie glued the tree and leaves onto the paper.  She wrote Addie's ABC Fall Family Tree. (We also added green construction paper for grass)

I had Addie answer questions about her project on the back of the paper.  She counted all of the names, identified the pattern of leaves, Identified ordinal numbers, identified most and least number of names, and did an addition problem

Roll and Say Fall ABC

Skills:  letter recognition

I placed the page on a lid for my cake pan.  Tana 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

Tana rolling the acorn

The Letter A and Apple Fun!

The Letter A

A is for apple

a is for apple

A is for alligator

Apple Projects

Look What's Inside an Apple

I typed and printed up the heading and the poem:

Sing to the tune:  I’m a Little Teapot

I’m a little apple, short and round. I make a munchy, crunchy sound.

If you bite into me you will see – I’m delicious as can be!

Cut out an apple shape.  Dip finger into red paint and press around the outside edge of the apple.  Color the stem brown and leaf green.  Press finger onto a black ink pad and press onto the center of the apple to make seeds.

I found this cute poem and project here!

Hand Print Apple Tree

Paint 1 hand green and press the painted hand onto white paper three times.  Paint a brown tree trunk.  When dry glue on red construction paper apples.  Add a stem and leaf to each apple.

Apple Hand Print Poem

Cut out a red apple and brown stem.  Glue the apple and stem to a piece of white paper.

Type and print out the poem:

This little apple that you just see

Was made for you just from me.

You'll never see one like it in all this land,

Because for a leaf I used my own little hand!

Paint one hand green and press onto the red apple

I found this cute poem and project here!  I changed the poem just a little bit to suit our needs.

Apple Learning Activities
A is for Apple Letter Writing
I cut out an apple shape from red paper and added a leaf stem and white lined paper.  I had Tana practice writing her uppercase and lowercase A's

  

My Apple Book

I created this book to work on number recognition 1-5 and counting.

Seed Counting

I cut out apple shapes and glued them to a piece of construction paper.  I put the numbers 2-5 on the stem's of each apple.  

Tana read each number and used a black ink pad to make the same amount of seeds on the each apple. 

The Letter Bb!

The Letter Bb

We worked all week on the letter Bb - with recognition and sound!  I think Joey and Keely really know the letter B!!  This letter was a review for Tana, but she still had fun!

B is for boat

B is for bee

b is for baseball

B is for bunny

B is for bird

Fun Projects for the 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July!

Projects

Hand Print Flag

Paint one hand with red, white and blue paint and press it onto construction paper.  Let dry - add stars

Painted/Glitter Stars

Cut out a star shape and paint with red, white and blue paint - sprinkle with glitter.

 Patriotic Rocks

Paint rocks with red, white and blue paint

 Painted Q-tip Fireworks

Cut Q-tips in half, paint the ends.  When dry, glue onto black paper in the shape of fireworks

Caterpillars and Butterflies!

Caterpillars and Butterflies

Projects and Learning Activities

Caterpillar Patterns

I cut out circles from two different colors of construction paper.

Tana and Joey made the AB pattern and glued the circles onto a half sheet of paper to make the caterpillar.  We added facial features and feet to finish the project.

Plastic Egg Caterpillar

Here is another fun pattern activity.  

I separated plastic Easter eggs (2 colors for each child).

We strung two pipe cleaners through the holes in the plastic eggs.  I secured the ends by twisting the pipe cleaners.  Tana and Joey worked hard to make their AB patterns.  We glued on googly eyes and bent the pipe cleaner to make the caterpillar's antenna.

We used 9 full plastic eggs for each caterpillar.  The end egg is a full egg. the rest of the caterpillar is made from plastic egg halves.

Hand Print Butterfly

Cut out a body for the butterfly from black construction paper.

Glue on googly eyes and pipe cleaner antenna.

Paint both hands red and press onto yellow paper.

Repeat with blue paint.  

When the hand prints are dry, cut around the prints and glue the hand prints to the back of the body to make the butterfly's wings.

Clothespin and Tulle Butterfly
Paint a clothespin - any color
Let dry and then decorate with markers, more paint or foam stickers!
Cut any color tulle to fit for the wings. I had leftover pink tulle that was already cut into smaller pieces!
Cut a pipe cleaner into a 5 inch piece.  Fold it in half.
Open the clothespin and place the tulle inside.  Do the same with the pipe cleaner.

Band Aid Butterflies

Use a square piece of gauze and press a colorful band aid over it to make a butterfly.  Draw on the antenna for each butterfly!

Keely's Project

Tana and Joey!

Butterfly Life Cycle

I cut out leaf shapes from green paper

Explain the butterfly life cycle

Glue 4 leaves to a strip of construction paper.

On the first leaf glue on a small bean for the egg

On the 2nd leaf glue on a spiral noodle for the caterpillar

On the 3rd leaf glue on a piece of shell pasta for the chrysalis

on the 4th leaf glue on bow-tie pasta for the butterfly.

I also printed off labels to glue on to each leaf!

Butterfly Name and Numbers

Skills:  number order, number recognition

name recognition, letter recognition

I cut out butterfly shapes from construction paper

I wrote the numbers 1-5 for Tana and Joey's name for Joey!

They glued their butterfly cut-outs to their strips of paper.

Paper Chain Caterpillar

Skills:  patterns, colors

Cut strips of colored paper 

Link the strips together in a pattern to make a Caterpillar!

Cut skinny strips for the antenna and draw on facial features

Butterfly Matching - File Folder Game

This is one of my File Folder games.  I've shown it on my blog a couple of times.  This is a great matching activity!!

Here is the original link to this Beautiful Butterflies Matching Activity

Hand Print and Name Butterflies

Paint both hands with two different colors

Press both hands onto a piece of construction paper.  You can overlap the thumbs

When dry, draw on the butterfly body and write the child's name!