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How to Make a Turkey Hat Craft for Thanksgiving

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Collage of kids' turkey hats with text that reads turkey hat crafts for Thanksgiving.

This turkey hat craft is super simple to set up and make with the kids. Bonus: you’ll find even more Thanksgiving turkey hat ideas at the end. Perfect to add to your preschool Thanksgiving activities! Related: Turkey Activities While preschoolers aren’t quite ready to jump into the full history of Thanksgiving, it’s still important toKeep Reading

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How to Easily Make Turkey Tracks Turkey Art with Kids

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Turkey tracks preschool turkey art

Turkey tracks are a silly and fun way to make turkey art with kids! Perfect for your preschool Thanksgiving activities, as well as art for a farm theme. Easy to set up and fun! Related: Turkey Activities This is one of those activities that happened on-the-fly in preschool, as a result of a simple conversation.Keep Reading

Filed Under: Art and Crafts Tagged With: Fall, Free Printable, Thanksgiving, turkey

Monster Counting Activity and Free Printable Monster Number Cards

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Slime Monster Counting Activity - Kids can work on counting, one-to-one correspondence, and more early math skills. Love the free printable

You need to add this slime monster counting activity to your list of Halloween activities for preschoolers. It’s easy to set up and a fun way to explore counting and one-to-one correspondence. Be sure to grab the printable monster number cards at the end of the post! Related: How to Make Slime With Kids PreschoolersKeep Reading

Filed Under: Math Tagged With: Fall, Free Printable, Halloween, monsters

Kids Love This Scented Fine Motor Pumpkin Activity for Preschool

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scented pumpkin activity for preschool kids

This scented pumpkin activity for preschool works on children’s fine motor skills while engaging their senses. It’s one of our favorite preschool pumpkin activities! Related: 60+ Fall Activities for Preschoolers My students consistently love our scented “tiny apples”, so I decided to create a pumpkin version. It’s always fun to build upon materials and ideas that reallyKeep Reading

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Apple Counting Book Free Printable

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pinnable collage of counting apples emergent reader with text that reads free printable apple counting book

This free printable apple counting book has been used by a variety of students over my years as a teacher. It’s the perfect addition to your preschool apple theme. Related: Apple Pie Sensory Play Oh how we love book-making in preschool (and my kindergarten students loved it too)! Homemade emergent readers help teach children importantKeep Reading

Filed Under: Literacy Tagged With: Apples, Book Making, Fall, Free Printable

Turkey Sensory Bottle that is Fantastic for Thanksgiving

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A turkey sensory bottle is just the thing to make with the kids for Thanksgiving

Learn how to make a turkey sensory bottle with the kids this month. They’re the perfect addition to your preschool Thanksgiving activities. Fun to make, and great to have on-hand when a calming moment is needed during the holidays. Related: Simple Thanksgiving Art with Pumpkin Seeds Glitter sensory jars are always a hit around hereKeep Reading

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Pumpkin Geoboard STEM to Try this Fall

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Hands-on pumpkin math with a pumpkin geoboard - The kids always love this geoboard pumpkin STEM activity

Making a pumpkin geoboard is an amazing way to explore pumpkin STEM concepts with the kids. Be sure to add it to your preschool pumpkin activities this fall! These geoboard pumpkins turn the traditional geoboard concept into a three-dimensional math experience kids love getting their hands on! I love that the children can explore soKeep Reading

Filed Under: Math Tagged With: Fall, Fine Motor, Halloween, Pumpkins

Here are 20 Preschool Leaf Activities Sure to Wow

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20 Preschool Leaf Activities to Try Today

These 20 preschool leaf activities will definitely be a hit with the kids! Not going to lie . . . fall is definitely my favorite season. There’s just something about the transition from summer to winter that captivates me every year. Getting rid of those high summer temperatures doesn’t hurt either! And then there areKeep Reading

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Two Ideas for Making a Pumpkin Glitter Jar with Kids

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Pumpkin glitter jar ideas that are so fun

Sensory jars are such fun to make with the kiddos. In addition to the entertainment value, a lot of early learning concepts can be taught with discovery bottles. Here are two pumpkin glitter jar ideas we recently came up with. They’re pretty simple, but we’re still rather fond of them. Be sure to add themKeep Reading

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Fun and Simple Thanksgiving Art with Colorful Pumpkin Seeds

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This pumpkin seed Thanksgiving art needs to be added to your collection of preschool pumpkin activities. It would also be perfect alongside the rest of your preschool Thanksgiving activities. The preschool kids have really enjoyed our colorful pumpkin seeds this fall. Because of their interest, we’ve come up with a variety of activities using theKeep Reading

Filed Under: Art and Crafts Tagged With: Fall, Pumpkins, Thanksgiving, turkey

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