In the fall we love learning about leaves and doing activities with them. We are always doing some activities with them. This year we did a full 2 weeks on the study of leaves. As part of that we did these hands on activities and sensory bin. When we have a sensory bin I always…
How do you do dot marker printables is one of the top questions that I get. I thought I would show a few ways that we used the Dot Marker printables for the Fall Tree in the Fall Dot Marker Extras. The ways to use these fall tree dot marker printable pages is open ended….
Fall is a favorite time at our house. The girls love the colors on the trees and so do I. We did this fun Fall Leaves tree painting and had so much fun with it. During the fall we have a favorite book: Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf. I think we read it more than any…
We are entering the season of fall soon. The leaves on the trees here have already started to turn. It seems like this would be a great time to get the Fall Themed To Do List Printable out! I have found that making to do lists helps me stay focused and get back into what…
We are headed into fall now and we are still working on reading as a big theme in our house. We are keeping track weekly right now to help encourage them to try and read more books each day. Reading is a very important part of learning for all ages. I love to have fun…
This whole week we have been learning about apples. This is one of the activities that we did with our Apple Theme. Apple is one of our favorite themes for the fall. You can always do something with them. So many activities are fun and easy to do. This apple tree is super easy to…
This is the second calendar set for those in Southern Hemisphere. It is pumpkins this time. I hope that everyone there is having a nice fall. This set works really well with the Pumpkin Pack. You can also use the Fall Pack and Fall Dot Markers with these calendar sets. Graphics from Melonheadz Illustrating and…
Why might be wondering why a in the world am I posting about a Leaves Calendar. Yes, I did put this out this fall, but there is a simple answer. Someone who lives in the southern Hemisphere asked me to do it. I had several requests for the calendars for them. So I updated the…
The trip to the car we looked at the clouds. We all liked how different they were. We were running slightly late and needed to be on time. They loved looking at the clouds during the drive. As we were driving we passed a park along the way. It has a bridge over a small…
This is a fun and easy fall sensory bin. I love it because it has two different textures mixed together. What I love about sensory bins is that this is open play for most of the time. You can give them the tools but they play how they want to play. They create their own…
It was nearing the end of our playing with water beads time. So I decided instead of marble painting we would do water beads! This was a great projects and lots of fun. The girls liked it we did several paintings over a few days. I love that every picture turned out very different. What…
Last year we did a matching sensory bin. This year we changed it up a bit and did something different. I love the different textures that you can explore with this bin. This is a fun way to start off your fall but exploring a few parts of the season. Hands on learning is always…
Every season has lots of learning fun you can do. I like to have different seasonal printable to use. It is one of the reason I have so many seasonal packs! Now here are some seasonal ABC And Number Walls cards to use. I have started to make a few of them for the different…
After the girls loved the Summer Bucket list that they got to make we decided to do a fall one as well! It is fun because they get to fill out the list and enjoy every part of it. Do your kids have a list of things they like to do for each season? There…
What should have been a craft and activity afternoon turned into lets play in the leaves. Some times going off the scheduled plans means having just a little bit more fun. With the weather here turning nasty really soon. This was the last chance to enjoy something that was a fun fall activity. We always…
Name: Garden in the Woods Location: Framingham, Massachusetts Website: http://www.newenglandwild.org/visit/Garden-in-the-Woods Length of stay: 75 minutes Garden in the Woods is part of New England Wild Flower Society’s. It is a great collection of plants native to New England. You can see wild selection of common and rare plants to the area. It is fun to…
We read Peanuts: It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The girls put the stickers in the book for the right places as we read the book. It was lots of fun! What we used to make the Finger Paint Pumpkins pumpkin template orange finger paint paper plate black crayon How we made the Finger Paint…
At a time when we should have been doing something else. Someone presented us with a pile of leaves. How can you say no to that? This was great gross motor practice without me doing a thing! Playing in the leaves can be some of the following gross motor: running in the leaves throwing the…
What you need: scrubber, tree on page (can be found in the Fall Pack Extra: Dot Markers 2), and paints: red, yellow & orange. We reviewed the colors she would be using. Mary started painting with the scrubber. She has lots of fun and did some slight color mixing while painting. The Finished product. Cassie…
Yarn Acorn Craft The yarn acorn craft uses two types of brown yarn and an acorn template. A super simple fall craft for kids. Book We Read With The Yarn Acorn Craft We read Earl the Squirrel by Don Freeman. The girls loved the story and the simple black white and red colors. It was…
We made a Fall Window similar to the Spring Window. We talked about changes that happen in the fall. We looked at the Fall Word cards from the Fall Pack. What you need to make this craft blue construction paper 3 short and 3 long strips of brown construction paper green construction paper glue stick,…
Coloring is always lots of fun and adding in coloring the words you are learning is lots of fun. These are great for younger kids who might not be able to write all their letter but can color them just fine. Since my girls have been loving the color by letter, here is the Color…
My girls love the Barrier games and they are great for speech. Here is a great Fall Barrier Game. You will have fun creating new ways to make new fall scenes. This is great for all ages! This Fall Barrier game goes perfectly with the Fall Pack and has a lot of same images used…
After reading this great post by In Lieu of Preschool. My girls asked to so some big chalk activities. I said yes you we could. The after first time we read Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert, we went outside and did a chalk drawing. We started with a basic tree. We added leaves…
We love having dot marker pages at our house. It is always fun to have them. We use them all the time. Because of that, we have another small fun Fall Pack Extra: Dot Markers 2. This fall dot marker set has a fall tree, sunflower and an acorn for a fun fall theme for…
An easy fall tree craft that any age can do. We did this fall yarn tree that any age can do. It has red, yellow, and orange colors of fall! One of our favorite parts of fall is the color of the leaves on the trees. They are super pretty to look at as they…
We read Leaf Man (Ala Notable Children’s Books. Younger Readers (Awards)) by Lois Ehlert . After reading the book we went and gathered leaves outside. We also picked up some pine cones. Then we made leaf art work. What you need: leaves, glue and paper. We went outside and gathered leaves. We compared the leaves…
We read Nuts to You! by Lois Ehlert. Mary loved the great story about the squirrel and the girl. We had fun exploring the many different pictures in the book. What you need: squirrel cut out, tray, q-tip, white paint, black paint, paint brush, and paint holder. Mary mixed the black and white paint today….
A simple apple craft that is great for kids of different ages. You use an apple template and yarn to make this craft. And kids will have fun making their red apples, or maybe they make a green or yellow apple. The yarn apple craft is a great addition to the apple crafts on the…
Fall is almost here! Here are some Fall Reading charts that are like the Summer reading Charts! This fall I have challenged my girls to read 100 different books. I have made these printables to help mark their progress. For every 10 books, we read we plan on doing at least one writing activity. We…