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Preschool Activities For the Fall

November 1, 2014 By Deirdre

While my son has moved on to elementary school, preschool activities are still something I love to plan and share. There were several shared on The Sunday Showcase last week that I knew you would love. They feature a fall theme or would be great fall activities to do with preschool children. You many decide that they would be great for Continue Reading

Planning a Getaway to Sevierville TN

October 30, 2014 By Deirdre

During our fall break last week, our next door neighbors headed to Sevierville, Tennessee. (The home of Dolly Parton.) Oh! How I wish we had been able to hide in one of their suitcases and gone with them. (We stayed home and hosted relatives in town to see my mom last week.) Why do I wish we had gone too? The next door neighbors came back filled Continue Reading

Scarecrow Activities for Kids

October 28, 2014 By Deirdre

Scarecrow activities for kids can be used around Halloween, Thanksgiving , in a farm unit or one focused on fall harvest. Scarecrows fit into so many units that are taught in the fall. The posts in this round up share crafts, learning games, and printables that each focus on a scarecrow theme. Well, one of the features a scarecrow's Continue Reading

Kids Activities with Owls- The Sunday Showcase

October 25, 2014 By Deirdre

Who doesn't love owls! I found a number of owl themed activities and crafts on The Sunday Showcase link up last week. They inspired me to search for some more kids activities with owls to share with you. I found some really wonderful crafts and great learning activities that I think you are going to love. Please take a moment to check each of Continue Reading

Scarecrow Snack and Party Idea

October 23, 2014 By Deirdre

A scarecrow is a great learning or party theme for a fall harvest unit, Thanksgiving or Halloween. With that in mind here a is a build a scarecrow snack and some ways to share the snack with kids. Also included in this post in the printable Scarecrow Snack Tag. Children can use the ingredients in this build a scarecrow , play learning games or Continue Reading

Halloween Games for Kids- Boxes and Pumpkins

October 22, 2014 By Deirdre

Coming up with some new Halloween games to play with my son has been on my To Do list all fall. A wide variety of games have been placed on a brainstorming list. I just never seemed to stop and pick up the materials needed to create them. Recently the school I teach at received a whole box of headphones. Each set of headphones came in its own Continue Reading

Prepositional Phrases Activity- The Pumpkins Are Here!

October 20, 2014 By Deirdre

A fun way to work on prepositional phrases is to find a poem like Pumpkins Are Here (Click on the link to the left to print out a copy of the poem.) that has a number of prepositional phrases in it. Once you have selected your poem, you can come up with an activity that children can do while the poem is being read. If this activity can be used Continue Reading

{Awesome} Halloween Activities for Kids

October 18, 2014 By Deirdre

Are you still looking for wonderfully awesome Halloween activities for kids? This is a collection of really awesome Halloween activities for kids. There are crafts, science experiments, learning activities and more. Each was shared last week on The Sunday Showcase. Please take a moment to visit each of these Halloween activities for kids and Continue Reading

Pumpkin Faces Created and Carved

October 16, 2014 By Deirdre

We don't carve our pumpkin until right before Halloween. I decided to see check out some pumpkin faces that have been carved and created by others to get ideas for our pumpkins. Boy! What an amazing variety of pumpkin faces I found when I searched! Here Are Some of My Favorite Pumpkin Faces Most of these walk us step by step through Continue Reading

Halloween Activities for Kids- Mouse Pumpkin House

October 13, 2014 By Deirdre

Halloween activities for kids like this mouse house activity are great for storytelling times at home or school. It would also be great for a Halloween Party. I have done this as one of a group of Halloween activities with kids. ( I will tell you more about the other activities later.) My students were invited gather around me as I sat in my Continue Reading

Spelling Games- Skeleton Bones Words

October 13, 2014 By Deirdre

Cotton swabs just look a long skeleton bones so, I decided that they made a perfect Halloween themed building tool for Halloween spelling games. We left some of the cotton swabs full sized. Others were cut in half or just below their fluffy ends. My son and I found that we needed three different lengths of swabs to build the words in our spelling Continue Reading