Favorite Fall Circle Time Activity

[Cat Herder]

What are the favorite Fall activities that you have done, plan to do soon or wish you could do with your group during preschool or circle times???

I listed a few domains. You don't have to list each one, if you don't want to. They are for thought/planning for those who may wish to borrow your creativity. If you do, fantastic. lovethis Let's play.

1. Fine Motor:

2. Gross Motor:

3. Art:

4. Science:

5. Math:

6. Prewriting/Writing:

7. Prereading/Reading:

[ColorfulSunburst]

all of them are my favorite and I try to use all of them every day )))
Morning activities (before breakfast)7am-9am - fine motor. 3 tables have different sets of toys (ex: play-dough, beads with sets of plastic bottles, pom-poms with sets of boxes/spoons/cloth-pins...)
15 minutes before breakfast we spend for step over different stuff (noodles, hoops), crawling throw a tunnel, walking as a horse/bunny/dug/frog/snake...
after breakfast is a circle time:
greeting
good morning song
some song with using sign language
activities like on the photos bellow









After nap time I have one more short circle time or some art project

[KidGrind]

Art/Math/Science: Painting Ants

I pre-cut head, thorax and abdomen. The kids choose the color of paint red, brown or black. They paint. They count out the body parts 1-2-3. They cut the yawn into have for antennas. They count the antennas 1-2. They learn and tell me what the antennas do. They glue the body parts and antennas on paper.

[Cat Herder]

I will do one, too.

1. Fine Motor: Picking up candy corn and mallow pumpkins with salad thong's, sorting by color, shape and size.

2. Gross Motor: Apple hop-scotch.

3. Art: Fall leaves texture stencils, glue sticks and orange, gold and brown glitter.

4. Science: Collecting acorns then filling the squirrel feeders in front of the playroom window. Baking Pumpkin Bread loaves together. Making birdseed ornaments for our playground trees.

5. Math: Counting how many acorns we collected. Having kids pass out equal numbers of supplies. To each other.

6. Prewriting/Writing: Having kids connect the icing dots that spell their name with candy corns on pumpkin bread loaves. Drawing with gel icing "pens".

7. Prereading/Reading: Read halfway through the fall themed books and let the kids finish the story one sentence, per child, at a time as they pass around the pumpkin that signifies their turn. ::::

[DaveA]

Not sure where to classify it, but one year we got given a ton of those mini pumpkins. We made a trebuchet. I think our best distance was 75 yards. It made a reappearance that winter when we used it to "lay siege" to our little tikes playhouse with snowballs (part of a castle theme).

[Second Home]

Art / science : we collect leaves of all different colors ( kids look for the colors I say ) . We look at and talk about the leaves then stick them to construction paper . Then I place the paper between 2 pieces of clear contact paper .

[SignMeUp]

Gross motor skills: We put our huge maple leaves on our parachute and f-l-i-n-g them up and watch them fall down :: My kids will do this for an hour! And it's soo pretty! The kids just laugh and laugh as they fall down on them.

[SignMeUp]

If you haven't seen the book, Leaf Man, by Lois Ehlert - my kids highly recommend it! It's humorous, imaginative, beautiful, and gives them tons of ideas for making leaf creatures

[Josiegirl]

Art/ Sensory/ Science/Fine Motor Hey it qualifies for all
I found this idea on Pinterest(of course!!) You cut out an acorn shape, I used cardstock.

Brown paint
White paint
Glue
Oatmeal, coffee(although I used cinnamon)

Using brown paint mixed with glue, they paint the bottom part brown, then sprinkle on coffee or cinnamon.
I tinted the white paint(mixed with glue) with just a little bit of brown, they painted the caps with that and then sprinkled with oatmeal.

Large motor/ when I used to have an older group(such as 3-5) we took balls of yarn and let them spin webs all over the play room then they pretended to be spiders.

Math/ making scarecrows out of different shapes and you could trace their feet/hands to use too.

[Controlled Chaos]

Not sure where to classify it, but one year we got given a ton of those mini pumpkins. We made a trebuchet. I think our best distance was 75 yards. It made a reappearance that winter when we used it to "lay siege" to our little tikes playhouse with snowballs (part of a castle theme).

I want to go to your daycare ::

[SignMeUp]

Art/ Sensory/ Science/Fine Motor Hey it qualifies for all
I found this idea on Pinterest(of course!!) You cut out an acorn shape, I used cardstock.

Brown paint
White paint
Glue
Oatmeal, coffee(although I used cinnamon)

Using brown paint mixed with glue, they paint the bottom part brown, then sprinkle on coffee or cinnamon.
I tinted the white paint(mixed with glue) with just a little bit of brown, they painted the caps with that and then sprinkled with oatmeal.

Large motor/ when I used to have an older group(such as 3-5) we took balls of yarn and let them spin webs all over the play room then they pretended to be spiders.

Math/ making scarecrows out of different shapes and you could trace their feet/hands to use too.

Masking tape makes awesome webs too - sticky to catch the stuffed animals. I mean flies ::