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Fall Leaves Counting Activities with Printable

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Fall Leaves Counting Activities with Printable

Last year I made cup wraps that could be used to play a backyard carnival game. I recently decided it would be fun to rework the single cup wrap into a series of wraps. Each wrap displays a number from one to ten. You will also find leaves that match each number on the wraps. While you could play a version of the backyard carnival game with the new Leaf Number Cup Wraps, there are so many more leaf counting activities you can play.

Counting Activities

Fall Leaves Counting Activities with Printable- There are a lot of number games you can play with these cups.

Make a Number Line

You can have your children create a number line with the cups. You can have them start with the number 1 or any other number you like.

Fall Leaves Counting Activities with Printable- There are a lot of number games you can play with these cups.

Fill in the Missing Number

You can set out the cups in number order. Then you can remove three or four of the cups. Your children can place the missing numbered cup in the space you created between the cups.

Fall Leaves Counting Activities with Printable- There are a lot of number games you can play with these cups.

Knock Them Down and Say The Number

You can create a tower or pyramid with the number cups. It will be up to you to decide how high you want your tower or pyramid to go.

Then your children can knock down the tower or pyramid. You could have them use a bean bag or ball to knock it knock it down.

Then you can have your children tell you the number of each of the cups they have knocked over.

Fall Leaves Counting Activities with Printable- There are a lot of number games you can play with these cups.

Object Counting

You can place out a complete number line of cups or pick a few numbers to work on. Then you will have your children place the correct number of pom-poms on each cup.

Fall Leaves Counting Activities with Printable- There are a lot of number games you can play with these cups.

Build a Number or Fact Family

Your older children might enjoy building a number or fact family. They will need to select three cups that create a family. Then they will share the addition and subtraction sentences that fit in that family.

After stating all of the number sentences, they can build a pyramid or tower. Then they can knock it down.

More Leave Themed Learning Activities

Leaf Themed Sensory Bin Activity

Song About Fall and Printable Leaf Shape Activity

Muffin Tin Letter Recognition Activity

Muffin Tin Skip Counting Activity

Fall Leaves Counting Activities with Printable- There are a lot of number games you can play with these cups.

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Songs About Fall and Color Activity with Leaves

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Songs About Fall and a Leaf Color Activity

This week I am sharing with you some activities with leaves. On Monday I shared with you an alphabet muffin tin game. Today I am sharing with you a shape and color game. Tomorrow I have a number-themed leaf game. The week will end with a sensory activity that uses paper leaves and a yarn tree.

Songs About Fall Leaves

Falling Leaves (sung to the tune of London Bridge)

All the leaves are falling down

Falling down, falling down.

All the leaves are falling down,

It is fall time.

They are yellow, red and brown,

Red and brown, red and brown.

They are yellow, red and brown.

It is fall time.

Take the leaves and crunch them up,

Crunch them up, crunch them up.

Take the leaves and crunch them up.

It is fall time.

 

The Dancing Leaves (sung to the tune of Clementine)

The dancing leaves

Are falling down

Orange, yellow, red and brown

They are dancing, they are dancing

They are dancing on the ground.

With their crispy and crunchy sound

They are the children’s delight.

Dancing, dancing all around

Bringing joy to everyone.

Activities Based on the Fall Songs About Leaves

Songs About Fall and a Leaf Color Activity

Supplies

You will need to print out the Leaf Shape Work Mats to do the activities. There is on a mat for each color shared in the songs.

Then you will need to cut on triangles, squares, circles, and rectangles out of paper or fabric. You will need to cut each of the shapes out of red, orange, yellow, and brown.

You could use one of the following to make your shapes:

  • felt
  • colored cardboard
  • card stock
  • color foam

Songs About Fall and a Leaf Color Activity

Activity

Your children will need to place the right shape into its matching area of a leaf. You can make it harder by having them match the right color and shape to each mat.

Songs About Fall and a Leaf Color Activity

This is part of an early learning activities series inspired by I Can Teach My Child called Toddler Time. Although my son is no longer a toddler, I will be joining I Can Teach My Child to share activities you can do with your young children this month. I will include ways of using activities with older children in most of my posts.

Toddler Time Activities

 

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Letter Recognition Game with Free Leaf Printable

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This seems to be the fall of muffin tin learning activities here on JDaniel4’s Mom. I have shared an apple counting activity,  a color matching activity,  a skip counting activity, and a number recognition activity. Today I want to share with a you a fun letter recognition game I created to go along with  Leaf Man the Virtual Book Club’s book of the week.

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As Leaf Man is blown through the air, he sees a number of wonderful things created with leaves. Things like cows and turtles. Your children will loving turning the pages in this book to see what Leaf Man sees next.

Letter Recognition Game with a Free Leaf Printable

Setting Up This Letter Recognition Game

I created tree with Wikki Stixs on a muffin tin.  You could do the same or create design with the letter leaves in the cups of the tin. You could create a giant letter C by placing leaves in the top row. bottom row,and in a column down the left hand side of the tin.

The oak leaf tin letter circles are free to download. After printing it out, you will just need to cut out the letters.

Letter Recognition Game with a Free Leaf Printable

Several Ways to Play This Letter Recognition Game

In each of my pictures you will see a version of the game that focuses on matching lowercase letters to uppercase letters. That is only one of many ways that you can play this game. Below you will find a list of other versions of this game.

  • Place the uppercase letter in the tin and have your children match the lowercase letters to the uppercase letters.
  • You can have your children work on the order of the letters in the alphabet by placing letters in alphabetical order. Leave some of the cups empty. Your children can fill in the missing letters.
  • A few of lowercase letters  and there uppercase matches can be stacked in a cup. Your children can place where they want in the tin.  When there match come up, they can place it over it buddy its muffin cup.

 

Here are the books coming up next in the Virtual Book Club. You may want to look for them at your local library ahead of time.

OCTOBER 3

Theme: Pumpkins
Featured Book: Five Little Pumpkinsby Dan Yaccarino. There is a fun new Pete the Cat: Five Little Pumpkins book out that would also be great for this week!

OCTOBER 10

Theme: Farms
Featured Book: Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle. Big Red BarnBig Red Barn is a great alternate read.

OCTOBER 17

Theme: Spiders
Featured Book: The The Very Busy Spiderby Eric Carle. Miss Spider’s Tea Partyis a cute book you could substitute for this week. It seems to be out of print, but used copies are very inexpensive and it is still likely to be available in libraries.
Letter Recognition Game with Free Letter Leaf Printable

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Simple Division Math Activity for Preschoolers

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Simple Division Math Activity for Early Learners

Earlier this week I shared a science activity based on the book Should I Share My Ice Cream? It was part of a weekly series I am doing with the Virtual Book Club. It can be used with young children and children my son’s age.  I thought you might like to see another activity based on the book. This simple division math activity based on sharing. You can use it with children of various ages too.

Division Math Activity

Supplies

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Simple Division Math Activity with an Ice Theme- It could be done after reading Should I Share My Ice Cream?

Directions for Playing This Division Activity

After reading the book Should I Share My Ice Cream?, you will explain to your children that they will roll the die. Then they will gather up the number of pom-poms that match that number. Next, they will to decide if they could share the same number of pom-poms with each ice cream cone. If they can, they will place each half in an ice cream section. If they can’t, they will roll again.

The goal of this activity is to work on dividing by two. It also looks at even and odd numbers.  You don’t have to tell your young children that they are dividing. You can tell them that they are looking to share numbers.  I would use the words dividing, even and odd with older children.

MORE FRIENDSHIP THEMED ACTIVITIES

Here are some more fun friendship-themed activities from my fellow Virtual Book Club for Kids co-hosts. Click on the links below to explore all of the sharing and friendship activities.

Name Activities

Simple Friendship Concentration Game for Preschoolers- Toddler-Approved
Spelling Names Ice Cream Center – Still Playing School

Number Activities

Sensory Activities

Kind Words Sensory Lesson – Preschool Powol Packets

Listening Games with Elephant and Piggie – Inspiration Laboratories
Cooking Activities
 

Cupcake Cones – Kori at Home
Making Pumpkin Ice Cream with Friends – The Educators’ Spin On It

Science Activities
Ice Cream Catapult– JDaniel 4’s Mom
Color Activities

Simple Division Activity for Early Learners based on Should I Share My Ice Cream?

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Five Little Pirates Pirate Craft and Printable

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Whether you are getting ready to celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day on September 19th or you exploring pirates with your children, the Five Little Pirates rhyme will be fun to sing. I thought your children might like to have a pirate puppet of their own to sing and dance to the song. I created a puppet pirate craft that children can decorate.

Before I share with you some decorating ideas, let me share the Five Little Pirates rhyme with you.

Pirate Craft and Five Little Pirates Rhyme

Five Little Pirates Rhyme

Five little pirates heading from the shore

One jumped overboard

And now there are four

Four little pirates now out at sea

One jumped overboard

And now there are three

Three little pirates with nothing to do

One walked the plank

And now there are two

Two little pirates having lots of fun

One drank all the first mate’s juice

And now there is one

One little pirate sitting in the sun

He decides to abandon ship

And now there are none.

Pirate Craft Supplies and Decoration Ideas

Supplies

  • Pirate Puppet Printable
  • Scissors
  • Material or Cut-Up Bandanas
  • Crayons, Markers, or Colored Pencils
  • Glue Sticks

Getting the Pirate Finger Puppet

First, you will need to download the set.

Second, if you don’t have Acrobat Reader you will need to download it. The algorithm page is an Acrobat Reader PDF file.

Third, you must go to your download file and open the page.  You may be asked if you want the file to open right after you download it. You won’t have to hunt for it in your download file if you are.

Steps for Putting the Puppets Together

First, you will need to decide if you want to cut the puppets out for your children or cut them out for them in advance.

Next, you can have your children color in their puppets with whatever drawing materials you like. I thought you might use crayons, markers, or colored pencils. You may have other drawing materials would like for them to use.

Then you could have them cut and paste material onto their puppets to give them texture if you like.  They could give their pirate a felt eye patch or mini bandana made of part of a real bandana.

Once your children have their puppets completed, you can work on the rhyme.

Pirate Craft and Five Little Pirates Rhyme

Tip: My son and I tried having more than one of the puppets on our hands at the same time. It was fun to try and make all of the puppets dance at the same time.

If you like this pirate craft, here are some more crafts based on Five Little rhymes and songs.

5 Little Crows
Five Little Apples
5 Little Firefighters
Five Little Starfish

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Learning Colors Activities and Printable

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Learning Colors Activities and Printable - We used Mega Bloks and muffin cups along with a free printable. You could have LEGO and a muffin tin if you like.

I had so much fun creating muffin math activities! I thought you might like a set of activities that focuses on skills for younger learners too. Today I have a color word learning activity for you that uses muffin cups.  You could place them in an actual muffin tin if you like.

Learning Colors Activities and Printable - We used Mega Bloks and muffin cups along with a free printable. You could have LEGO and a muffin tin if you would like to.

Learning Colors Activities Supplies

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Color Word Printable for Muffin Tins for Kids
Muffin Cupcake Liner Baking Cup
Mega Blocks

Learning Colors Activities

The goal of each of these activities is to help children recognize colors and match them. The manipulative I chose is one that would be easy for young children to pick up. If you want to do the activities with older children, you might chose smaller objects like LEGO, pom-poms or buttons.

Finding the Color

The first activity you will want your children to do is finding blocks that match each color. You can point to each colors circle in the flower cup one at a time. Then have your child or children see if they can point or pick up that colored block.

Tip: If you are just starting to explore colors, you may just want to have out one color cup out at a time. Your children can then sort through the blocks to find that one color.

Building Color Towers

Once your children have grasp of each of the colors, you can have them dig through a pile of blocks to find a particular color. When they have found all the blocks of a particular color, you can have them stack the blocks together to make a tower.

Learning Colors Activities and Printable - We used Mega Bloks and muffin cups along with a free printable. You could have LEGO and a muffin tin if you would like to.

Building Flower Stems

Instead of building towers that could topple over, you could have your children build flower stems. They can create a column of colored blocks under each of the flower cups. If you have enough blocks, you could have your children at leaves to each of the stems.
As I mentioned earlier, you don’t have to use Mega Bloks. You can have your children build towers or stems with LEGO,  buttons or pom-poms. The pom-poms can’t be stacked, but the other objects can.

More Early Learning Activities to Come

This is part of an early learning activities series inspired by I Can Teach My Child called Toddler Time. Although my son is no longer a toddler, I will be joining I Can Teach My Child to share activities you can do with your young children this month. I will include ways to using activities with older children in most of my posts.

Toddler Time Activities

They are activities I did with JDaniel that I never shared with you. Some will be new activities I wish we had done. I hope you will love them and want to try them out with your kids.

Here are the muffin tin math activities I shared last week:

Skip Counting Oak Leaf Numbers

Apple Basket Muffin Tin Numbers and Activities
Learning Colors Activities and Printable - We used Mega Bloks and muffin cups along with a free printable. You could have LEGO and a muffin tin if you would like to.

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Free Counting Worksheets – Apple Basket Muffin Tin Numbers

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Free Counting Worksheets - Apple Basket Muffin Tin Numbers

Fall makes me think of apples. My family has gone to a local orchard to gather apples almost every fall. When I sat down to create some fall themed math activities. I knew one or two of them was going to have to have an apple theme. The apple basket themed numbers found on these free counting worksheets will be fun to explore. Each numbered circle tucks into a section of a muffin tin.

Free Counting Worksheets Activity

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Supplies

Putting the Activity Together

Free Counting Worksheets - Apple Basket Muffin Tin Numbers

You will start by cutting out the number circles. I tried to cut out perfect circles. If you look carefully, you may see some little specks of white. The circles were designed to fit in the muffin cups. If you get close to cutting out perfect circles, your circles should fit in the cups too.

Next you will need to put together your pom-pom moving tool. You will place a pom-pom between the two chopsticks. Then you will wrap a rubberband around that end of the chopsticks. The pom-pom will make opening and closing the chopsticks a little easier for kids. The rubber band will keep the two chopsticks together.

We used pom-poms as our counting items. I thought it would be easy to move with the chopsticks. If you have apple Erasers or red buttons, you could use them instead.

Counting Activities

Free Counting Worksheets - Apple Basket Muffin Tin Numbers

These free counting worksheets can be used in a center, a small group, or one on one. Your children can start by moving the correct number of pom-poms into each muffin cup. They might find it tricky at first, but I don’t think it will take it long to figure it out.

Free Counting Worksheets - Apple Basket Muffin Tin Numbers

When they have filled each of the muffin cups, you can have them move them out of the cups one number at a time. You can select the numbers one by one for your children or they can do select the numbers themselves. This activity will allow them continuing to work on one to one correspondence. They will just be doing it in reverse.

I would have your children the say the number they are working on out loud.  It will help them store the counting information in their visual and auditory memory.

More Free Counting Worksheets

In the next few days, I will be putting up three more sets of free counting worksheets. Below you will find a list of the worksheets and their themes.

Apple Muffin Tin Counting Numbers

Patterned Oak Leaf Muffin Tin Counting Numbers

Pumpkin Muffin Tin Counting Numbers

Free Counting Worksheets - Apple Basket Muffin Tin Numbers

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Tropical Rainforest Animals Puzzle and Activity

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Tropical Rainforest Animals Puzzle and Activity

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The Olympics are in Brazil this summer. I though it would be fun to explore a book that features an area of Brazil my son already loves learning about. The creatures in the rainforest are truly amazing! JDaniel is really into the frogs and reptiles found in the rainforest. The book I choose to explore is The Rainforest Grew All Around . After reading this wonderful book, we explored a tropical  rainforest animals puzzle and activity I created. The tropical rainforest animals puzzle and activity were created using clip art and paint stirrers. It was so easy to put together.

Creating the Tropical Rainforest Animals Puzzle and Activity

Supplies

 

Putting the Activity Together

Tropical Rainforest Animals Puzzle and Activity

You need to tape the paint stirrers together before painting them. A row of masking tape near the top, middle and bottom of the stirrers works best.

Turn the stirrers over so the tape rows are on the back. Place a piece of masking tape just above the notch on the paint stirrer.

Tropical Rainforest Animals Puzzle and Activity

Paint the area above the tape blue and the area below the tape green. Once the paint in both areas has dried a little, you will remove the tape. Then you will carefully paint the area that had been under the tape green.

While the paint is drying, cut out the kapok tree and the tropical rainforest animals. You can cut them out for your kids or have your kids cut them out.

Place a thin layer glue on the back of the tree before placing it on the paint stirrers.

Create a mixture of glue and water. Then lightly brush the mixture over the tree carefully. If you put too much of the mixture over the tree, the ink will smear and give you a messy tree. (Our tree is slightly messy.)

Once it is dry, you will use an X-ACTO Knife  to cut the space between each of the paint stirrers. This will create your puzzle pieces.

Tropical Rainforest Animals Puzzle and Activity

Then it is time to explore the puzzle. They can see what the tree looks like with the pieces in various spots.

Next your children can discover where on the tree each of the tropical rainforest animals can be found.  We looked for the animals in the book The Rainforest Grew All Around to find out where the animals live.

After finding where each animal lives, children will want to just play. They can move the animals around on the tree or the grassy area at the base of the tree. They might even make up story about the animals training for the Olympics.

Here are some more activities that feature tropical rainforest animals:

Paper Plate Jaguar Mask

Symmetrical Anteater Craft

Three Talking Toucans Rhyme and Craft

 

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LEGO Building Ideas- Ocean Life Building Directions and Work Mat

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LEGO Building Ideas : Ocean Life - Building directions and free printable ocean mat are shared in this post.

Ocean life has been the theme of several activities I have created recently. I thought you would enjoy having an activity that focused on LEGO-building ideas.  Children love building with LEGOS. Why not have them build some ocean creatures and seaweed with LEGOS?

I have created a learning packet for you that features cards displaying each of the Ocean Themed LEGO Mats. (The mats have been updated and changed from the backgrounds pictured.) Your children can be given the ocean mat and the cards to create their versions of the ocean creatures and seaweed.

I have also created my version of each of the LEGO building ideas. Below you will find pictures of each of my LEGO building ideas and a list of the bricks that were used to create each of them.
You can decide what direction you want your children to go with this activity. They can replicate mine or create one of their own.

LEGO Building Ideas

LEGO Building Ideas : Ocean Life - Building directions and free printable ocean mat are shared in this post.

Starfish

This is the simplest of the LEGO building ideas. You will need only ten 1×6 bricks to create the starfish.

LEGO Building Ideas : Ocean Life - Building directions and free printable ocean mat are shared in this post.

Jellyfish

The jellyfish is made of bright yellowish-green and dark green bricks.

Supply List

1×6

2×4 (2)

2×10 (2)

1×4 (2)

1×2 (5)

1×4 with ramp (1)

LEGO Building Ideas : Ocean Life - Building directions and free printable ocean mat are shared in this post.

Crab

The crab is made with bright red bricks. You could mix in pink bricks if you have them. We only have red bricks available at my house.

Supply List

2×6 (1)

2×2 with long ramp (2)

2X1 with short ramp (2)

2×1 (4)

1×1 (1)

1×3 (8)

2×5 (2)

2×4 (2)

eyeball caps (2)

LEGO Building Ideas : Ocean Life - Building directions and free printable ocean mat are shared in this post.

Seaweed

The seaweed was made using bright yellowish-green and dark green bricks.

Supply List

2×4 (4)

1×1 with ramp (2)

2×3 (6)

2×4 (4)

1×2 with ramp (4)

1×2 (2)

LEGO Building Ideas : Ocean Life - Building directions and free printable ocean mat are shared in this post.

Octopus

The octopus was made with bright blue bricks. He could have been made with green bricks. You may decide you like him green rather than blue.

Supply List

1×6 with small ramp (1)

1×2 with small ramp (1)

1×4 with small ramp (1)

1×2 (10)

1×4 (1)

1×6 (1)

1×3 (4)

1×1 (2)

eyeball caps (2)

LEGO Building Ideas : Ocean Life - Building directions and free printable ocean mat are shared in this post.

Lobster

Supply List

1×4 with short ramp (2)

flipper-like piece- This is not its official name. (2)

1×2 (13)

1×1 with small ramp (3)

3×1 (4)

1×1 (1)

1×6 (3)

1×8 (2)

Each of these LEGO building ideas used bricks we had a home. My son has been given a number of LEGO building sets and a LEGO Classic Large Creative Brick Box. That has given us a very full homemade LEGO storage bucket. You may find that you can create the same ocean-themed building ideas with different combinations of bricks. If you do, I would love for you to share them with me on my Facebook page.

This post is part of a LEGO Week celebration on Toddler Approved.

Counting Worksheets with an Ocean Theme

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Counting Worksheets with an Ocean Theme
This set of counting worksheets features shells. It is part of a ocean themed math worksheets series I am sharing this you this summer. Earlier I shared with you the Ocean Themed Roll and Cover Mats and an Open Ended Math Game Board. While this is being shared as a basic counting sheet for young children, there a tons of other ways you can use them.

Using Them as Basic Counting Worksheets

Counting Worksheets with an Ocean Theme

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If you plan on using these counting worksheets featuring number shells, you will need to give your children a set of objects to count.  We used a set of glass pebbles from the dollar store that included a variety of ocean themed colors. You could also use vase accents pebbles in aquamarine that are available online or blue pom-poms or small shells if you like.

You can put out a few numbers for your children to work on one to one correspondence with or the full set of shell counting worksheets. It is really up to you.

If you have young children, you may want to have them tell you each number and then help them place the correct number of objects on it. It will depend on how comfortable your children are with counting.

Other Uses for the Counting Worksheets

Counting Worksheets with an Ocean Theme

  • You can have your children create addition number sentences.

    Example: Put out the number four and the number two. Have your children place the correct number of counter on each number. Then have them combine the number to find the sum. Finally they will place the combined number of objects on the number that equals the sum.

  • Your children can sort the numbers into even and odd numbers. They can then place the correct number of counters on each number.
  • Your children can create subtraction sentences. They can choose a large number. Next they will place the correct number of counters on that number. Then they will divide the objects into two groups. Finally they will put each of the groups of objects on its matching number card.

Counting Worksheets with an Ocean Theme

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