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A Gross Motor Movement Game for Fall

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Fall is a great time for getting kids moving outdoors, or even in the classroom on rainy days.

Take inspiration from the stuff of the season with this fall gross motor movement game from Gift of Curiosity.

Grab the free printable and use the different directions — such as grow tall like corn or roll like a pumpkin — on the sides of a large cube, or have kids draw a movement from a stack.

You could even combine it with a hopscotch game and/or a die with numbers so kids do that movement a certain number of times as they go down the path. What fun!

[Photo: Gift of Curiosity.]If you are looking for fun active games to get the kids moving, I highly recommend this Floor Is Lava Board Game

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Earth Day Printables and Activities

I know doing printables for Earth Day doesn’t sound very eco friendly, but it does give you a chance to talk to kids about how you can make the classroom or the home a little greener by only printing what you need, using low ink or only black and white printing, printing on the back of other pages, using recycled paper and recycling what you can when you are done.

These Earth Day printables help kids learn about Earth Day or use earth designs.

Pre-K Pages has Earth Day math printables, including a dice rolling game with a recycling theme, graphing, number grouping and sequencing activities.

123 Homeschool 4 Me has a variety of printables for Earth Day including writing prompts, plant life cycle worksheets and links to other activities.

A Dab of Glue will Do has a little printable emergent reader book that explores the basics of Earth Day and some things we can all do to be kind to the planet. You can print it in color or black and white and have kids color it themselves.

Speaking of coloring pages, Preschool Mom has a collection of coloring pages with color versions that you can use as posters in the classroom as well as having kids color the black and white ones.

I love all the printable hands on activities from Differentiated Kindergarten, which help kids build fine motor skills with an Earth Day twist. You’ll find printable mats for use with playdough, geo boards, snap cubes, pattern blocks and Legos, as well as a Q-tip painting activity. You can get these when you sign up for emails.

Here are a few more quick printable Earth Day activities for your kiddos:

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