I love all of the fall changes in the air. We enjoyed the fall colors for preschool. We made an extra colorful fall treat to celebrate the first day of fall!
- Read “Mouse's First Fall” by Lauren Thompson … or any other book with great fall colors!
- Preschool Journal C Page
- Practice writing Cc and “Colors” … we used fun pencils with lots of colors so our page was extra colorful.
- Stick colorful fall leaf stickers to the page (I found these at Michaels).
- Colorful Fall Hand Trees
- Trace your preschoolers hand and forearm on brown paper.
- Let them cut it out (I helped my 3-year-old, but my 4-year-old did it all by himself)
- Glue their hand tree to light blue paper.
- Stick colorful fall leaf stickers to the page … some on the tree, some on the ground and some falling! We used these, but I found them at Michaels.
- Colorful Crayon Shaving Leaves … I love how these look in the window
- Use a sharpie to draw a large leaf outline on wax paper.
- Have the kids help remove the paper from several fall colored crayons.
- Make crayon shavings by using a manual pencil sharpener. I let my kids try to do this themselves, but it was a little tricky. They had more fun when I made a pile of crayon shavings for them to use.
- Sprinkle the crayon shavings all over the wax paper.
- Place another piece of wax paper on top.
(before) (after ironing) - Place a large piece of paper on your ironing board, then the wax paper leaf, then top with another large piece of paper.
- Carefully iron on top of the paper (on LOW heat). It doesn’t take very long to melt. The more your iron, the more the colors smoosh together. I like to do it until the colors are just starting to spread.
- Let cool. They cool very quickly.
- Cut around your leaf shape and hang in the window!
- Colorful Fall Scavenger Hunt & Wreath
- Make a simple colorful wreath
- Trace around a large plate and a smaller cup to make a wreath shape.
- Using the wreath as a pattern, cut out several fall colors & glue them around the wreath.
- Take your colorful wreath on a fall scavenger hunt walk. Find leaves and other fall items that match your colors.
- When you get home, glue the items to the matching colors.
- Hang up your colorful fall wreath!
- Make a simple colorful wreath
- Fall Colored Sugar Cookies … these were a yummy treat to end our colorful day and were fun to make!
- Make a batch of your favorite sugar cookies.
- Divide the dough into four balls.
- Color each ball a different fall color. We used red, orange, yellow, and green.
- Take pieces from each ball and smoosh the colors together into a large ball.
- Roll out your dough (and ooh and ahh at the cool colors)
- Use a leaf cookie cutter to cut out your cookies. This is the one we used:
- Sprinkle with colored sugar sprinkles & bake.
- Delicious … even without frosting.
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