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Finger Paint Tree

11/21/2013

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Supplies Needed:

Lightweight cardboard (we cut up a cereal box)
Toilet paper roll
Scissors
Printable template
Red, orange, yellow, brown and green paint

Directions:

Draw a tree top onto lightweight cardboard and cut the piece out.
Have your child use their fingers to dot the different colors of paint onto the tree top cut out.
Cut two, inch long slits on one end of the toilet paper roll, so that they are across from each other. Once your tree top is dry, slide the tree top into the cuts on the toilet paper roll.

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Take children outside to collect leaves to make their own fall tree. Bring the leaves inside and allow them to dry if they are wet. Have children cut a trunk for their tree out of brown construction paper and glue a piece a paper on the top of the trunk. Using the leaves that they collected outside, have children glue them to the piece of paper to make their very own tree.

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Water Bottle Puppets

10/6/2013

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Let’s make water bottle puppets for infants and toddlers. Older children love them too!

Read: “Fall” by Roger Priddy.
A Bright Baby touch and feel board book. A wonderful little book for infants and toddlers. But preschool children will also enjoy its photographs and the touch and feel pictures.

Materials needed:

water bottles of different sizes
pictures of trees, squirrels, leaves, pumpkins, scarecrows, etc.
material to fill the bottle that will make a sound when the child manipulates the bottle: rice, beans, stones, flour.
Use super glue to glue on the caps (We don’t want those caps coming off.)

Directions: The pictures should be big enough to cover the water bottle. The twist is that the picture will go inside the water bottle. After inserting the picture you can fill the bottles at different depths and with different materials to change the weight of the bottle.

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Leaf Print

10/6/2013

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Gather leaves outside and help the kids trace over them with a white piece of paper and a color of their choosing.

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Leafy the Last Leaf

10/5/2013

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The Last leaf is about to fall from the tree.The wind blows it here and there, let’s write a story about Leafy’s Day!

Read the book: “The Fall of Freddie the Leaf” Freddie is a leaf who changes with the coming of fall. A wonderful look at the seasons of leaves and life.

Materials needed: Construction paper, blank paper, crayons/markers, stapler, scissors, leaf cut out or stickers.

Directions: The cover: have the children make a collage of leaves. (Real leaves would be more fun, but cut out leaves will do.) Print out the “Last Leaf” poem and attach it to inside the cover.

Story: Each day have the children write (dictate to you) and draw a story about where Leafy the last leaf went, who she saw and what she did. 1 to 5 pages depending upon the interest of the children.

Instructions: Read “The Fall of Freddie the Leaf” each day. Have the children brainstorm adventures the last leaf might have. Set out the drawing/writing activity at the writing table so children who want to can work on their stories.

Extension activity: Have the children pretend they are the last leaf. Blow on them so they can gently fall to the ground.

Extension activity: When it’s time to dismiss or move the children blow them to their destination. Let them sway and move like a leaf in the wind.

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Easy Fall Tree

10/5/2013

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Print off pictures of trees without leaves. Provide stickers or fake small leaves and glue. Encourage the children to add the leaves to the picture to complete their fall tree.

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The Leaves

10/5/2013

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Autumn

10/5/2013

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Pretty Leaves are Falling Down

10/5/2013

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Scarecrow

10/5/2013

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Scarecrow
Sung to: "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear turn around"

Scarecrow, Scarecrow, turn around.
Scarecrow, scarecrow, jump up and down
Scarecrow, scarecrow, arms up high
Scarecrow, Scarecrow, wink one eye
Scarecrow, scarecrow, bend your knee
Scarecrow, scarecrow, flap in the breeze
Scarecrow, scarecrow, climb into bed
Scarecrow, scarecrow, rest your head

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