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Giant Scarecrow

9/29/2020

This is one of our favorite fall craft projects to make!! We do it over a span of two to three days but you can adjust it to fit the needs of your early learners. We use large sheets of construction paper (usually sold right next to the regular sized construction paper) but if you do not want to make giant scarecrows you can scale the project down to make smaller ones.

You can either have the pieces already cut out for younger children to put together or have guide pieces set out for the children to use as a reference for cutting their scarecrow pieces.

You will need to have a head ... hat ... pants ... shirt body ... sleeves ... straw ... eyes and a nose. You will also need to have various colors of tissue paper that has been cut or torn into squares.

Once all of the pieces have been cut out it is time to put them all together. You can put them together any way you wish but I found that we had the most success starting with the head and working our way down.

The hat gets glued at the very top of the head and the shirt body on top of the bottom of the head. You want to make sure to leave enough room to make a face on the head.

The sleeves the next to get glued on and they should be glued behind the shirt body. The sleeves can be angled in any direction.

The pants are glued under the bottom of the shirt. We used three inch long strips of yellow paper glued to the bottom of the hat ... arms ... and legs to represent straw.

We glued the eyes and nose on the scarecrow head and also drew a mouth with a marker. The last step was to glue the tissue paper squares on the scarecrow.

You can see a video of this project below:

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October Number Tracing Calendar

9/27/2020

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october number tracing calendar for preschool and kindergarten

Here are October's number tracing calendars along and other October items including daily reports and calendar numbers.

number tracing calendar

calendar numbers and other items

pumpkin days of the week and months of the year for preschool and kindergarten

I also made pumpkin themed days of the week and months the year strips that can be used for calendar headers ... pocket charts and matching.

days and months

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Fall Fine Motor Wreath

9/21/2020

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Fall Tissue Paper Wreath Preshool and Kindergarten Art Project

Once of our favorite super cute fall craft projects is a tissue paper wreath. These are super easy to make but really great for fine motor development. We cut the centers out of paper plates (those just starting to use scissors may need some help). The next step was to cut or tear fall colored tissue paper in to small squares or rectangle shapes.

Fall Tissue Paper Wreath Preschool and Kindergarten Art Project

Children can sort the tissue paper by color if they wish but we just put all of the tissue paper into bowls. The children applied glue to the paper plates and then scrunched up the tissue paper pieces and press them on to the glue.

You can see a video of this activity by clicking below:

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Apple Number Match Sticks

9/7/2020

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The free membership printable this week is apple number match sticks for number recognition and review. I printed the patterns on cardstock paper ... cut them out and glued them to craft sticks.

apple number match sticks for preschool and kindergarten

In this activity children match the two apple sticks with the same number. You can do both number to number and number to number dot matches.

You can grab the patterns below for free until Sunday September 13th ... after that date they will only be available in the member's section which is also where I have added apple fine motor dots.

apple number match sticks