Category: Thematic Units
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Paper Plate Santa {2 different ways!}
Paper Plate Santa Paper Plate Red Construction Paper White Glue Cotton Balls Googly eyes (for version 2) Version 1: Cut the center of the paper plate out so you are left with a circle made from the rim of the plate. Cut a hat shape (I just free-handed it) out of red construction paper. Spread…
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Turkey Hat
We made this turkey hat to help bring in Thanksgiving (and show the true “turkey” nature of Landon!). It was very easy and fairly quick to do, but Landon really loved it! He loved it so much he wanted ME to make one to wear (I passed). Turkey Hat 1 9×11 piece of white or…
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Corn Art
We’ve been doing (and will be doing more) harvest and fall type art and craft projects with the fall season on us. We’ve done a ton of pumpkin crafts and now that corn is in full harvest we’ve been talking about and doing some corn projects. Corn Art Corn husk picture in black and white…
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Painting with Corn
We had a great sensory and art experience using corn to paint. This is a great fall time activity as corn is fully in season. We started by talking about how corn grows and how to shuck corn. Shucking corn provides many different sensory experiences as well as a life skill lesson. The different textures…
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Tape-Resist Pumpkin Painting
This is a fun and quick pumpkin craft! Tape-Resist Pumpkin Painting Large piece of white construction paper Painters tape Orange paint Draw and outline of a pumpkin on your white construction paper. I just “free” handed a pumpkin. Using painters tape cut different shapes to make the face of your jack-o-lantern. Landon insisted on wanting…
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Blown Paint Monsters
As Halloween quickly approaches we’ve been getting into the monsters and pumpkins – and as I was perusing pinterest a few days ago I realized that we haven’t done any bat crafts this year! We still have a few days left – I may try to squeeze them in! This craft is very simple and…
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Shape Monsters
Part of our fun and far away from scary as possible, but still Halloween themed activities we did was create shape monsters. I’ve done a similar activity in my classroom as a teacher for a transportation unit, where I gave the children a wide variety of pre-cut shapes in different colors and sized and let them use…
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P is for Pumpkin
Since this month is all about pumpkins we can’t pass a month worth of also talking about the letter P! We had a ton of left over pumpkin seeds from the pumpkin seed pumpkin craft we did so I made a letter P on the computer with a cute picture of a pumpkin and let…
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Pumpkin Seed Pumpkin
Pumpkins come from pumpkin seeds. Pumpkins have seeds in them… why not make a pumpkin from pumpkin seeds?! Pumpkin Seed Pumpkin Pumpkin Seeds (washed and dried) Orange and green paint Pumpkin Outline (I reused the one from doing the pumpkin “mache” craft) Glue Paint a large handful of pumpkin seeds orange (enough to cover the…
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Punching Pumpkins
I had grand plans with the project, which turned into an epic fail for an activity with kids. My initial plan was to follow what we did, but add a step of putting Christmas lights in the holes. It didn’t turn out that way – but what we did was fun and had some great…