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Paper Plate Spider

10/27/2020

One of our favorite fall "spooky" crafts to make is a paper plate spider. It's easy to make and it give children lots of fine motor practice.

You will need to have:

paper plates (we used small chinet)
black crepe paper
black cardstock or construction paper
glue
wiggle eyes
sequins
scissors

We started by cutting the black crepe paper in to small pieces and the we glued them on to the paper plate.

The next step was to glue on the wiggle eyes and sequins. While the spider was drying we began making the spider legs.

We cut black construction paper in to small strips and folded them back and forth in accordion style. We then glued the legs on to the bottom of the paper plates (four on each side).

You can see a video of this project below:

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Pumpkin Seed Transfer

10/27/2020

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Pumpkin Seed Transfer Preschool and Kindergarten Math and Fine Motor Activity

We love working with pumpkins seeds ... there are so many things your can do with them!! I set this activity up in our math center using two pumpkin bowls that I purchased from Target. You can use any kind of bowl or container that works for you. I put the pumpkin seeds in one of the bowls and set out a pair of jumbo tweezers along with dice.

The children rolled the dice and then used the tweezers to transfer the same number of pumpkin seeds into the empty bowl. They continued to roll the dice until all of the pumpkins seeds had been transferred. This activity can also be done without the tweezers and/or the dice.

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

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Pumpkin Spice Paint

10/27/2020

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Pumpkin Spice Paint For Toddlers and Preschool

I recently attended a make and take session and one of the things we made was pumpkin spice paint. It is super easy to make but I felt the recipe we used was a bit too runny so I modified it a little.

To make the paint I put three packets of unflavored gelatine into a jar along with 1 cup of boiling water and mixed the two together until the gelatine was dissolved. I added yellow and red food coloring and stirred until I had an orange color I was happy with.

The last step was to add the pumpkin pie spice into the paint. I just continued to shake some in until I got the scent that I wanted. Everyone loved how the paint smelled and were very excited to paint with it.

I let the paint cool down which also helped to thicken it. The children then painted large circles on cardstock paper. When they painted they could see the specks of pumpkin spice. We let that paint dry and cut out the circle and glue it on to a sheet of colored cardstock paper. The children cut out a leaf and stem and glue that on the pumpkin. They then glue pumpkin seeds on for extra fine motor work.

You can see a video of our pumpkin spice paint below:

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Scarecrow Number Sequence Puzzle

10/26/2020

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scarecrow number sequence puzzle for preschool and kindergarten

The free membership printable this week is scarecrow number sequence puzzles for number recognition and review. I printed the patterns on cardstock paper ... laminated them and then cut along the lines so there were ten puzzles strips for each puzzle.

scarecrow number sequence puzzles for preschool and kindergarten

I mixed the puzzle strips up and set them out. Children had to sort through the strips and put them in numerical order to complete the puzzles. There are numbers 1-10 ... 11-20 and 21-30 puzzle sets.

You can grab the patterns below for free until Sunday November 1st ... after that date they will only be available in the member's section which is also where I have added pumpkin letter tracing sheets.

scarecrow number sequence puzzles

pumpkin letter tracing sheets for preschool and kindergarten

pumpkin letter tracing sheets added to the member's section

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Giant Scarecrow

9/29/2020

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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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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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