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Fall Learning Activities with Leaves and More

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I know it’s not technically fall yet but I’m so ready, and there are a lot of great ideas for learning with fall items like leaves and acorns that you should have in mind when the time comes. Here are (more than!) a few to get you started. Check out this article on the best STEM gifts for kids.

I’d love to know if you incorporate natural materials into learning during the fall or any other time of year!

Fall STEMfall STEM activities for kids

Leaf Chromatography — remove the color from leaves — Schooling a Monkey

Measuring Leaves —  And Next Comes L (she also has a great math tray using fall materials)

Tracing the Veins of a Leaf — Go Science Girls

Counting Nature — Mom Explores the Rockies

Subtracting with Ten Frames — Leaf Theme — Life Over Cs

Math Activities Using Natural Materials — The Usual Mayhem

Activities for Little Learners

Leaf Number Sort and Alphabet Leaf Activity — A Dab of Glue Will Do (check out this great list of fall books for littles, too)

Fall Sensory Bin — Ms. Jones’ Creation Station (also grab her colors of fall printable coloring book for emergent readers)

Acorn Fine Motor Activities — Little Bins for Little Hands (don’t miss her fall discovery table, sensory bottles and fall slime, too!)

Fall Sight Word Flashcards — Look We’re Learning (also fall play dough mats)

More Fun Activities

Tree Leaf Collection — with identification cards — Preschool Powol Packets

Leaf Identification Printables — Look We’re Learning (also check out Scarecrow Syllables for second graders and her All About Leaves printable pack)

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Getting Ready for a Road Trip? These Ideas May Help

We don’t really have any travel to speak of planned this summer, and my daughter is old enough that any lengthy time in the car is usually spent with an audiobook or watching videos. But I remember the struggle of keeping little kids entertained on long trips, especially if you don’t want them on a screen the whole time.

I recently saw this post from Creating Really Awesome Fun Things, which is a roundup of 26 road trip games, ideas and activities that kids can do. From stringing beads onto pipe cleaners to felt busy boards, travel journals and using a pizza box to contain colors, trains (or cars) and more, there are lots of fun and easy ideas here.

I’m a big fan of printable road trip activities, and even have a whole post all about printables for road trips. I used to always do some kind of license plate game, a map, mazes and I-spy style scavenger hunts, which are fun for everyone in the car to play along with. (You can also find some patriotic road trip mazes here.) If your road trip includes a camping trip, check out these camping themed printable games and activities.

Productive Pete has a super cute map of the United States (pictured above) that kids can use in lots of different ways while on the road. They can color the states you travel through, or all the states they’ve ever visited, or use it to give the license plate game an extra challenge as they try to find each state on the map. You can quiz older kids on the state capitols, which you might need to brush up on yourself (guilty!).

Do you have particular games or activities that you always have on hand when you are doing a road trip with kids? I would love to hear about them!

[Photo: Productive Pete.]

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