Fall Activities for the Littles

PRESCHOOL AND TODDLER ACTIVITIES FOR FALL 

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There are lots of different ways to set up tot trays and workboxes for your little ones in the fall- I thought I would share a few of the ones we are doing this fall in case there is anyone looking for a few ideas :) 

DIY Felt Pumpkins

These are super easy to make, you just need felt and scissors, cut out all the pieces and let your tot (big kids like them too!!)  design his/her own Felt pumpkin :) Store pieces in a Ziploc after or glue them on to keep as a craft. 

Skip Counting with Pumpkins

For this activity I used the 1-20 printable from 1plus1plus1 and fall stickers from the dollar spot at Target. We practice skip counting, colors and making patterns with this easy to do activity.

 

Tot Packs (Counting, Matching, Cutting, Tracing) 

Tot Packs are amazing. I love them - but what is really amazing is the women who take their precious time to make these printable packs and share with other moms FOR FREE. Kudos to them, I have no idea how they do it.. But I am very thankful for their Generosity and Time. Below is a List of our favorite Fall Packs that we have tried and love :

Pumpkin Pack 3 Dinosaurs  (pictured below)
Pumpkin Preschool Pack 1+1+1=1
Leaves Tot Pack 2 teaching Mommies
Fall Fun Printables Homeschool Creations

Foam Stickers

My kids LOVE Foam stickers!! I enjoy watching them peel the backs off and stick them onto paper, foam, boxes, whatever ya got! I found these Fall themed foam stickers at the Dollar Spot at Target and at Dollar Tree. This is a great activity for little ones to do while you work with bigger kids. 

Fall Colors 

Making good use of the Foam Stickers! Separate by color and using Easy Grip Tweezers to sort.

Fall Themed Sensory Bin

Sensory Bins are awesome! Every New Season or Holiday is a great opportunity to switch things up. To see more about our Fall Sensory Bin go HERE.

Counting,Stacking and Placing 

I used the Do a Dot page from 3Dinosaurs Pumpkin Pack. Do a Dots are fun because you don't have to just use Dot Paint. You can use Stickers, pompoms, gems, beads, or like in these pictures, Unifix Cubes (100 count). We talked about the Color orange, Placed them on the dots, then we counted as we picked them up. Butter counted to 5 and I did the rest of the counting as he stacked them on top of each other.

Sorting Trays

Sorting trays can be set up so many different ways!! You can sort by color, pattern, shape, size, etc. Tons of ways to sort!! Here are a few examples of ways I set them up.

Fall Scatter Gems

For this Tray I used Apples from our Super Sorting Pie 

and bowls I already had around the house. 

This tray I used Cherries from Hi Ho Cherry-O Game and they sorted by color. 

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2013 Fall Sensory Bin

Fall Sensory Play

Here is a look at our Sensory Bin for Fall

This bin was so easy to make and CHEAP. Everything in the Bin is either from Dollar Tree or Target Dollar Spot. The base is Black Beans and Popcorn. 

Other items include:

Orange Ice Cream Scoop 

Harvest Veggies

Pumpkins

Decorative Fall Leaves

Felt Leaves

Pumpkin, Acorn, and Leaves Mini Gems

Real Acorns from outside

Mini broken up twigs from outside

 There are so many ways to play with this type of Sensory Bin. I try to change ours up as much as possible using different objects because there really is a lot of sorting and scooping going on ... and it makes it fun when there are new things to Sort n scoop with and new objects to pour into. So for this particular day we used star ice cube trays, and a plastic leaf snack holder.

Butter pretending to eat one of the harvest veggies :) 

We talked about the season fall/autumn and the different colors we see during this time of year. They sorted and Scooped.... and made me a ton of different "pumpkin entrees" and we counted the big pumpkins. 

Cowboy made a Pattern with Black Beans and Popcorn using the Star Ice Cube tray. While Butter lined different objects up by Shape and Size not sure he was ready for the picture LOL 

The boys love having a new themed sensory bin every few weeks and play with it often. I keep it in our art room aka (dinning room) for easy access so if they see it and want to play with it, I just lay out the sheet and let them have at it.  

Look at my babies.... last year. Butter was still rocking that #CRAZYHAIR....(sniffle sniffle) seems like yesterday.. 

Treasure every moment- they grow up WAY too fast!!!

Link to Last Years FALL SENSORY BIN

Link to some of our other SENSORY PLAY

Happy Fall !!! 

L is for Llama and Leaves- Tot and Tiny Tot school

Tot School- Cowboy is currently 43 months old

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This weeks Trays:

Included:

Llama Farms (Funky Farms)

Is Your Mama a Llama?
Fall Leaves Fall
Alpha Tales Letter L
Fall Leaves Fall Dry Erase Center Cool Crazy Connectors Melissa & Doug Shape, Model and Mold Little Bo Peep Puzzle
Ladybug Letters Baby Bear Counters and Three Bears Family Pattern Cards
Stacker Pegs and Pegboard Set
Melissa & Doug Alphabet Stamp Set
First Brain Quest

HELLO FALL!!! 

This week we did Letter Ll and I was so excited that Fall was here and we got to use L for Leaves as well! 

Chart 

Intro To Letter Ll using www.abcmouse.com and www.starfall.com

I love that starfall also teaches sign language letters!! This is my Cowboy showing my L in sign language :P 

Going over discussion page on Llamas in his Tot Book/Calendar Book.

I found this Football Tot Pack from 3 dinosaurs and printed some activities out since it was Fall :) FOOTBALL TIME!! Here he is lining up the footballs by size, and putting together a referee puzzle. 

Going over shapes with leaves in them, Tracing Letter Ll with his Dry Erase Center and Reading The lamb who loved to laugh book from our AlphaTales Box Set

Counting the Leaves on our Number Cards from HERE. 

Reading Fall Leaves Fall!! He loved this book he wanted me to read it over and over again for him. 

Stamping a paper plate with the letter Ll from his Melissa & Doug Alphabet Stamp Set- making a special present for his Sissy "Lou"!

Here he is separating Small Medium and Large Leaves. I printed this pack last year and it is from www.homeschoolcreations.com 

Playing with his new Melissa & Doug Shape, Model and Mold set. He loved it!! 

Daddy came in for a little while and helped Cowboy spell some fall word cards using his Letter Tiles 

First Brain Quest

Vocabulary Review theme- outdoors- Sequence and leaf puzzle

This was a fun game I just did on the fly... I laid out some silk leaves and gave him the pinwheels and let him blow them everywhere. It was a hit... 

Little Bo Peep Puzzle and Reading Is Your Mama a Llama? 

These are a thrift store find and after a huge bath in Bleach- I think this is one of our favorite thrifty discoveries. They are called Pop-Onz Pop 'n Build Blocks and the boys love them!

Doing some sorting with his Mancala game and patterns with Baby Bear Counters and Three Bears Family Pattern Cards.

This was one of my favorite things of the week. He was determined to let me know he knew certain letters so he went over to the box that has all the foam letters from our foam letter mat and brought out all the letters he knew and put them one by one on the desk to prove his letter knowledge :) And just like his shirt says... He is AMAZING ;) 

  

I took out all the letters we have gone over up until this point from his Ladybug Letters puzzle and he put together Upper and lower case letters. 

Tiny Tot School- Butter is Currently 17 Months old 

I do tiny tot school any opportunity that I have- but here lately its been during calendar time. That's what has been consistent and is working :) for the most part! I don't force him nor do I make it a big deal he loves doing all the activities I give him. So just because I say school its more like individual PLAY time and he gets all mommas attention :)

Here is Butter playing with his Animal Activity Puzzle he likes showing us all what each piece is and what sound they make.

The big kids were making their bible craft so I thought I would let him experiment with stickers. He mainly liked sticking them on and pulling them right back off :P

I made this sorter container by using an old container and cutting a hole in the top. I hand him a flash card of an object, he tells me what it is and then he pushes it on in ....

Hes just so handsome...... This is a Turtle Sorter  you push the shapes through the right hole. He likes just taking the top off and throwing the pieces down and mommy picking them back up for him OVER and OVER again ...... haha

Flip Blocks I would point to a letter and turn it over and tell him the object on the other side or if he knew it, he would tell me

Cowboy loves being a BIG brother and to HELP anytime he can! Butter on the other hand is not always a fan of his help but they usually work good together. 

Got this book this week at the thrift store its really cool its called Rock & Roll: Colors  both boys enjoyed it. 

There is a little chip inside the book that you rock and roll on each page

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Happy Fall Ya'll!! 

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