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Fall Activities for Kids

By Shaunna Evans 6 Comments · This content may contain affiliate links.

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As you know so much can happen in one week. Although I would like to be able to post all of the great learning activities we are doing each week, I know I won’t be able to do so. Instead I will post a quick wrap-up of some of the highlights of our week. Some of them will be covered in other posts, but the wrap-up will be a place where you can get an idea of what our week looked like as a whole. Enjoy!

This week we explored fall! It may have been close to 90 degrees outside, but we still had fun doing all of our fall activities.  Monday we started out with a brand new bin of fall books. Don’t you just love to see your kids discovering new books? I came back from changing the baby’s diaper and found these two cuties reading away.

Sensory Activities

We did a lot of great sensory activities this week.  First we were scientists and explored leaves with our senses. Lovey is trying to find out how they smell.

Using our senses to learn about leaves

Our fall sensory bin was a huge hit. The kids really liked the little containers filled with scented cotton balls.  We scented them with different extracts that reminded us of fall.

Fall Activities to Do with Kids

Another one of our favorite sensory activities this week was playing with orange water beads. Well, they ended up orange anyway. They started out as different fall colors but I forgot to read the directions for hydrating them and mixed them all together too soon. Oops! I will try to remember next time.

The kids didn’t care! Tinker chose to play water beads almost daily, and so did the big kids. It was a great quiet time activity while others were still napping. We will keep this bin for our Halloween sensory activities.

Water Beads

We also did some fine motor practice by adding pumpkin pie spice and cinnamon to some dry oats. The big kids reviewed letters, made shapes, and created silly faces! Tinker enjoyed exploring the texture and smell.

Add spices to oats and use for sensory writing

Sensory Writing

One of my favorites this week was making pumpkin pie playdough. We used this recipe from Childhood Beckons that I found on Pinterest. It was fun for Lovey and I to cook together, and all the kids really enjoyed playing with it. We added acorns and leaves as mix-ins.

Fall Activities for Kids

Leaf Activities

We used our leaf bins to review basic concepts. The big kids searched for the letters that we have learned so far this year.

Letter Hunt in Leaves

Tinker searched for colored pom-poms to practice color recognition. Here she found blue!

Leaf Hunt

We were so lucky that Grammie and Hoppie just got back from Michigan. They brought us some beautiful fall leaves!  We used them for a lot of activities. Our leaf people craft was inspired by this leaf man puppet.

Fall Activity for Kids

Everyone made a leaf sun catcher inspired by this one that I found on Pinterest. They turned out so pretty, and we all love to see the sun come through them in the morning.

Fall Activity for Kids

Pumpkin Activities

After spending about half of the week learning about acorns and leaves we did a few pumpkin activities. Everyone liked exploring the pumpkins we have at the house, even Baby Boy.

Fall Activity for Babies

We combined this too cute for words pumpkin face lacing activity with this name recognition activity and made this adorable pumpkin craft.

Pumpkin craft for preschoolers

Name Recognition Activity

No, I don’t have a child named Dean, but I am trying to keep our kids’ names semi-private. Thank you for understanding.

Another way we practiced spelling our names and reviewing the alphabet was by using real pumpkin seeds with letters written on them. The kids had fun playing with the small seeds, and it was great fine motor practice. There are some more ideas for using pumpkin seeds in this busy bag post.

Pumpkin alphabet activity for preschool

The finale of the week was this easy cooking activity. We made special pumpkin treats for our afternoon snack. They don’t look as beautiful as the original, but they were tasty and the kids had a lot of fun making them together. We even made a few extra to share with the rest of the family!

Cooking with Kids

It was a busy week, but so full of fun and learning.

If you are still looking for fall activities, there are TONS more on my Pinterest board.

Fall Books for Kids

 

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  1. Christy

    October 31, 2012 at 8:57 pm

    I never realized how important sensory activities were, until I started blogging. Loving all the ways everyone uses this for learning. Thanks for linking up to tip-toe thru tuesday!

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    • Shaunna

      October 31, 2012 at 9:10 pm

      I didn’t do as many sensory activities with my oldest. It took me a while to really understand how beneficial they can be, but both girls are really enjoying and learning from them now. Thanks for stopping by!

      Reply
  2. Academy at Thousand Oaks

    October 30, 2012 at 3:59 pm

    Stopping by to check out your sweet little ones’ activities!

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    • Shaunna

      October 30, 2012 at 5:18 pm

      Thanks so much for stopping by. Hope you found something you liked!

      Reply
  3. Kellee

    October 26, 2012 at 6:01 pm

    Very fun! Great ideas!

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    • Shaunna

      October 27, 2012 at 5:33 am

      Glad you liked them! Thanks for stopping in.

      Reply

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