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Fun and Easy Acorn Activities for Kids

FUN & EASY Acorn Activities for kids: teach math, craft, and reading with acorns

When the acorns start falling from the trees - it's time to make Acorn Activities for your toddler to create and play with. It makes a great learning theme for fall. Amazon Affiliate links Acorn Activities: Acorn Counting and Number Recognition This week was Acorns Everywhere.  Both my kids thought this book was funny. They both just laugh out loud when the little squirrel cannot find his very obviously hidden acorns in the book and the of course have to point them out for ... Read more...

Filed Under: Kids Activities Tagged With: Acorns, Amanda, Fall, Preschool, Toddler

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Fall Activities for Toddlers

Here are some fun and easy fall crafts for toddlers for Tot School this week! We're spending some time focused on various elements of fall through Fall Math, Science, Arts and even a fun adventure to a Pumpkin Patch. Fall Tot School Weekly Plan Here's what we did for our Fall Tot School Activities. Monday - Fall Music Focus So it is a little cheesy, and I am sure someone else can claim they "created" this song, but we sang "All the Leaves are Falling Down," to the tune of My ... Read more...

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Amanda, Art projects, Fall, Literacy Connections, Toddler, Tot School

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Fall Muffin Tin Syllable Counting Game for Kids

Fall Muffin Tin Syllable Counting Game for Kids to Make and Play. Learning objective: fine motor strengthening and syllable segmentation.

Pumpkins, acorns, and fall leaves are abound these autumn months. Make and play this fall muffin tin syllable counting game with your kids for some fine motor and phonemic awareness practice. Affiliate links. Reprinted with permission from 100 Fun and Easy Learning Games for Kids.  Take a peek inside our book here! Fall Muffin Tin Syllable Counting Game for Kids Say and count syllables in this self-checking muffin tin game. Sneak in a little fine motor practice and boost early ... Read more...

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Amanda, Fall, grade school, Muffin Tin, Preschool, Scarecrow, Syllables

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DIY FALL Color Word Book, a Preschool Lesson on Fall Colors

Fall BIY Book featuring fall colors in leaves

The colors of fall capture the hearts of many children (and grown ups too) There is just something magical about the season and all the fall colors.  Reds, oranges, yellows, browns, paint the trees where green used to be.   In this activity preschoolers (and grade school children) will make a flip book of fall colors while studying leaves and the trees that they come from. Affiliate Links included in this post Preschool Lesson on Fall Colors: DIY Flip Book This activity ... Read more...

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Fall, Fall Activities, grade school, learning activities, Leaves, Literacy, Preschool

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Make a Shape Scarecrow for Math and Fine Motor Learning

Shape Scarecrow Activity

Preschool is a mix of playtime, story time, building, reading, and crafting! I LOVE when you can combine two or more for lessons like this one: Make a Shape Scarecrow! Make a Shape Scarecrow Read a book about scarecrows with your child. Talk about the purpose of the scarecrow and how they are made. Learning Objectives for the Shape Scarecrow The child will identify the shapes by name: square, rectangle, triangle, and circle. The child will practice position words: top, ... Read more...

Filed Under: Math Tagged With: Amanda, Fall, Playful Preschool, Scarecrow, Shapes

By Kim Vij

Fire Safety Week Art Project

Fire Safety Week Activities for Preschoolers and Toddlers

A fun collection of fire safety week activities for toddlers and preschoolers! Includes a week long activity plan featuring themed activities, books, and toys to learn all about fire safety with your child. Fire Safety Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers  Fire Safety Week Art Project October is Fire Safety Month! It's never to young to begin to teach your child fire safety, plus I think fire trucks and all cars with sirens are one of the first things a child recognizes ... Read more...

Filed Under: Kids Activities, Parenting Tagged With: Community Helpers, Fall, Fire Safety, Preschool, Toddler, Tot School

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Teach About Community Helpers with Role Playing | A Preschool Lesson Plan

Teaching preschoolers about community helpers through role playing

How do you ask for help if you are lost in the library? What do you do if you are separated from your parent in a store? How and when do you call for help? These are just a few scenarios that we can discuss with our children and teach them how to connect with community helpers through role playing.  As a parent, I begin discussing and practicing with my kids around 3 years old. Amazon affiliate link used in this post. Teach Preschoolers How to Find the Community ... Read more...

Filed Under: Kids Activities Tagged With: Activities for Preschoolers, Amanda, Community Helpers, Fall, Fire Safety, Playful Preschool, Preschool

By Kim Vij

50+ Fun and Educational Apple Activities for School-Aged Kids

Apple Activities for school aged kids. A fun apple themed activity plan for after school activities for your child.

Explore 50+ adorable apple activities for kids to create, experiment, and learn. Apples are a versatile and engaging theme that can be used to teach a variety of subjects at the beginning of the school year with elementary school kids. What will you pick first from this apple themed after school activity plan? Apple Activities for After School Apples are a delicious and nutritious fruit that are perfect for after-school snacks and activities. They are also the perfect theme ... Read more...

Filed Under: Kids Activities Tagged With: Apples, Fall, grade school, Kim

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Apple Orchard Virtual Field Trip for Preschool

apple orchard virtual field trip for kids

Social studies for preschool children is all about exploring ME and MY World. Looking into our refrigerator, you will see apples, apple sauce, and apple juice. Red apples, yellow apples, green apples. It doesn't matter, because my kids LOVE apples!!! They are part of our every day experiences. So how did the apples get to our fridge? Let's explore with these hands-on, fun Preschool Apple Theme Activities. Apple Orchard Theme Activities for Virtual Field Trip This week, our ... Read more...

Filed Under: Kids Activities Tagged With: 3-5, Activities for Preschoolers, Apples, Fall, learning activities, social studies, Virtual Field Trip

By Kim Vij

Stacking Apples Game: A Fall STEM Activity for Kids

STEM Activity for Ten apples Up On Top for Kids

Create a hands-on fall STEM activity with this stacking apples game using pretend apples and playdough. Here's how to play. This Post contains amazon affiliate links  Stacking Apples STEM Game for Kids Finding a storybook that shares STEM concepts in it can be such fun.  One of our new favorite this fall is the book Ten Apples Up on Top!  by Dr. Seuss our featured book of the week for the Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids! It's a perfect match to challenge ... Read more...

Filed Under: Math, STEM Tagged With: Apples, Book Activity, counting, Dr. Seuss, Fall, grade school, Preschool, STEM, Virtual Book Club for Kids

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