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Tip: Ask kids questions that get them engaged in investigating leaves.  Tip: Set out a variety of leaves and tool for kids to investigate Tip: let the kids create art with leaves to work on small motor skills.  What are you working on? What do you need? What are your goals? https://www.facebook.com/groups/Thecreativecampus/ Join Us and Let Us Help You Learn Through Play!  OR  Make Me Your  Personal Creative Content Creator ! ( Insert Link To Call) Include Top 10 Favorites Sponge painting leaf piles. (can add a handprint rake) What can you find in a tree ( loose parts sensory bin) Play Dough Fall Trees ( cut leaves out of silly shapes) Leaf Identifying Memory Leaf Counting/ Shape matching game Leaf Investigation and Tree Identification Game (fun way to learn facts about tree species). Leaf positioning Listening Game I spy with my little eye ( leaf or tree part descriptions) Create Story Problems using leave...

Theme:  Pumpkins Tip: Sensory explore pumpkin parts Tip: What grows first from seed to pumpkin Tip: Art ( Eye Hand Coordination) decorate a pumpkin What are you working on? What do you need? What are your goals? https://www.facebook.com/groups/Thecreativecampus/ Join Us and Let Us Help You Learn Through Play!  OR  Make Me Your  Personal Creative Content Creator ! ( Insert Link To Call) Include Top 10 Favorites Decorate a pumpkin ( small motor) Stuffed bag pumpkin ( painting) Shape pumpkin sequencing Tissue Paper  pumpkin art Pumpkin Pie Science ( How to turn a pumpkin into a pie) create recipe and then make. Pumpkin Patch Obstacle Course  ( math or spelling) complete the obstacle to find the pumpkin and add it to the right word or math problem. Pumpkin observation ( what happens to a pumpkin after you carve it?  ( document time and changes) Pumpkin parts feely bag stories. ( seeds, pulp, rind) 5 senses p...

Happy Fall Everyone! I love this time of year. There are so many fun learning experiences we gain at this point in the year. Pumpkin's and all their fun textures. Leaves and the different sizes and colors. The learning goes and goes! Because of this I wanted to share with you some fun learning activities I have created around these concepts. I have a fun leave/ Apple Game that I created when I was working with 3&and 4 year old preschoolers. I made these cute bushels with numbers on them and then I printed Leaves and Apples of different colors and Shapes. I labeled the bushels with numbers as well. Depending on the theme of the week, I lay out the bushels and I provide either the apples or the leaves ad I encourage the children to take turns picking a number card. Then we sing the child's name and say "picked an (color apple) from the apple tree"... and then they put that color in a bucket. Or we say "child's name" picked a certain number of ap...