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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 Thanksgiving activities for preschoolers! Related: Turkey Activities While preschoolers aren’t quite ready to jump into the full history of Thanksgiving, it’s still importantKeep Reading

Filed Under: Preschool Arts and Crafts Tagged With: Fall, Thanksgiving, turkey

Turkey Tracks Art with Pipe Cleaners and Paint

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Turkey tracks preschool turkey art

Turkey tracks art is a fun and silly art activity to include with your other Thanksgiving activities for preschoolers and kindergarten kids. Of course, you don’t have to try making these turkey footprints just in November. I think it would work well during a farm theme or a unit about birds. Whenever you decide toKeep Reading

Filed Under: Preschool Arts 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

This monster counting activity is super engaging for young children, as it appeals to multiple senses. The monster calendar numbers aren’t scary at all, and invite the kids to practice all kinds of math. Counting monster eyes lets the kids practice one-to-on correspondence, as well as number identification. And the printable numbers can be usedKeep 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 fine motor pumpkin activity is one of our favorite preschool pumpkin activities! It’s super engaging and keeps the kids playing for hours. You can explore a wide variety of early learning skills with this pumpkin fine motor activity. There’s math, literacy, science, and more! Plus, you can make adjustments to the idea and incorporateKeep Reading

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

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 Thanksgiving activities for preschoolers and kindergarten kids. The turkey discovery bottle is fun to make, and great to have on-hand when a calming moment is needed during the holidays. Plus, think about how great a fewKeep Reading

Filed Under: Sensory Tagged With: Fall, Glitter, Sensory Bottles, Thanksgiving, turkey

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

Two Ideas for Making a Pumpkin Sensory Bottle with Kids

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Pumpkin glitter jar ideas that are so fun

Here are two pumpkin sensory bottle ideas we recently created. Be sure to add them to your own collection of preschool pumpkin activities. They’re pretty simple, but we’re rather fond of the pumpkin glitter jars! They’re so much fun to make, and a ton of early learning concepts can be explored with them. You canKeep Reading

Filed Under: Sensory Tagged With: Fall, Glitter, Halloween, Pumpkins, Sensory Bottles

Fun and Simple Thanksgiving Art with Colorful Pumpkin Seeds

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If you’re looking for a fun and unique idea to add to your Thanksgiving activities for preschoolers and kindergartners, this turkey pumpkin seed art is perfect! You can also try this during your next farm theme, or as part of a bird unit. The Thanksgiving turkey art uses a novel art material, pumpkin seeds. ThisKeep Reading

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

Free Printable Fall Calendar Numbers

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Close up of leaf and acorn number cards with text that reads free printable fall calendar numbers.

These fall calendar numbers can be used not only for the calendar but also for so many other fall activities for preschoolers as well! Grab your own set of the free printable fall numbers for your classroom below. They’ll pair well with all of the fall math ideas you have planned. Number cards are soKeep Reading

Filed Under: Math Tagged With: Fall, Free Printable, Numbers

Pumpkin Counting Book made by Preschoolers

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Add this counting book to your list of preschool pumpkin activities this fall! My preschool students had the best time with our pumpkin math and engineering challenge! In fact, the kiddos are still asking for it to be included during center time. I decided it would be fun to add a literacy element to this scienceKeep Reading

Filed Under: Literacy, Math Tagged With: Book Making, Fall, Halloween, Pumpkins

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