Category: Fall

Fall Leaf Puzzles

9/19/2017

The free membership printable this week is Fall Leaf Puzzles for visual discrimination and color recognition. I printed the patterns on cardstock paper ... cut them out and laminated them. I then cut along the line on each leaf to make two halves.

I separated the leaves into two halves and put them into two baskets. I have included twenty pattern leaf puzzles and twelve color leaf puzzles.

In this activity the children find the two halves and put them together to form a leaf. Play continues until all puzzle pieces have been matched.

You can grab the patterns below for free until Sunday September 24th ... after that they will only be available in the member's section which is also where I have added a fall leaf color sort.

fall leaf puzzles
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fall leaf color sort for preschool and kindergarten

fall leaf color sort added to the member's section.

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Giant Scarecrow Project

10/12/2016

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giant scarecrow craft project for preschool and kindergarten

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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Fall Tissue Paper Wreath

9/23/2016

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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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Paint Chip Turkey

11/19/2015

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paint chip turkey craft for preschool and kindergarten

Every time I am in a store that sells paint I grab a couple of paint chip samples and save them for when we do activities with paint chips. This week we made made turkeys with them.

To make the paint chip turkeys you will need to have:

colored cardstock paper
construction paper
glue/glue sticks
paint chips
wiggle eyes
scissors

The children start by cutting a turkey body out of brown cardstock or construction paper. Next they cut feather shapes from the paint chip samples and glue them on to the back of the turkey body.

paint chip turkey craft for prescool and kindergarten

Children can decide what colors and how many of the paint chips to use. They then cut a beak ... gobbler and feet from cardstock paper and glue on the turkey body. The last step is to glue on the wiggle eyes. If you do not want to use wiggle eyes you can also make construction paper eyes.

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

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Sequin Turkey

11/13/2015

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sequin turkey craft project for preschool and kindergarten

Here is a wonderful project for fine motor development that goes great with a turkey or Thanksgiving theme. You will need colored cardstock paper ... scissors ... glue/glue sticks ... sequins ... and wiggle eyes.

sequin turkey craft for preschool and kindergarten

Children cut a turkey body shape out of brown cardstock paper. Next they cut five turkey feathers from five different colors of cardstock paper and glued them onto the turkey body. They glued on wiggle eyes and cut a beak and gobbler from from orange and red cardstock paper. They then cut turkey legs from yellow cardstock paper and glued them on together with the beak and gobbler. The last step was to apply glue drops to turkey and press on the sequins.

You can see a video of this project below:

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Turkey Alphabet Match

11/11/2015

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turkey alphabet match for preschool and kindergarten

turkey number match also added to the member's section

The free membership printable this week is a turkey alphabet match which is great for letter recognition and review as well as fine motor skills. I printed all the patterns on cardstock paper and cut them out. I have included both upper and lowercase as well as in order and out of order versions so you have a choice of what to make.

turkey alphabet match for prescool and kindergarten

I glued the letter feathers behind the turkey (two on each side and one at the top). I laminated everything and also attached self-adhesive magnets to the back of the loose letter circles to lift them off the surface a bit and also to add some weight to them.

In this activity children put the letter circles on the matching letters on the turkey. Play continues until all of the letter have been matched. You can grab the patterns for free until Sunday November 15th ... after that they will only be available in the member's section which is where the turkey number match is also located.

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