Fall Printable Books for Kids

I love little printable books for kids. There seem to be books on just about every theme you can think of that people have made, and they allow kids to practice a little bit of vocabulary/reading, number recognition, color recognition or other skills depending on the subject.

I usually throw a book or two into my activity roundups, but there are so many cute emergent reader books for fall that I thought it was worth having a whole post just for them.

Real Life at Home has a cute printable book about the colors of fall, which kids can color as they learn about red, orange, yellow, green, blue and other colors (the printable is seven pages and can be assembled into a mini book).

Primary Games has a printable mini book that’s also about colors, but in this case all the colors are related to fall leaves. Kids can color the leaves and practice writing the color words.

Yet another colors of fall printable book is available from Mrs. Jones’ Creation Station. You can fill up your coloring area with all of these super cute books to help kids learn their colors. This one also has space for writing the color word where kids can trace the letters.

You can find a couple of different fall-themed mini books at 1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1. These books can be printed in color or black and white so kids can just read them or color and read.

And if you’re looking for a counting printable book with a little bit of a Halloween twist, check out this one from Crystal and Comp. It includes numbers from one to 10 and allows kids to see the digits, count and color the items on the page, and trace the number word as they go. Plus it’s really cute.

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Summer Reading Printables and Tips for Parents

With summer coming soon in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s a fun time to incorporate activities and crafts with a sunny theme. Take some time to learn about the sun (this post from National Geographic Kids is a good one) and then do some sun activities.

Sun prints are a classic summer activity, and there are lots of ways to do them, from placing objects on construction paper (like in this craft from MomBrite) or by using sun print paper (aka cyanotype paper).

Practice threading, counting, color sorting and other skills with this easy sun threading activity from Taming Little Monsters.

Lessons 4 Little Ones has a great blog post full of ideas for science experiments using the sun, such as melting crayons, looking at shadows, making a sun dial and trying a solar oven. Printables to go with the lessons are available for purchase or you can just talk through the students’ hypotheses about what will happen and draw or otherwise record the results.

This updraft tower from Almost Unschoolers is a cool way to illustrate that the heat of the sun causes an updraft, which makes the pinwheel spin. This is a good one to do inside near a sunny window so you don’t have wind spinning the pinwheel instead.

You’ll want to get out in the sun to try this experiment form Life with Moore Babies to see what kinds of things the sun can melt. Using different kinds of sweets you can see how the sun melts things by itself and how you can concentrate the power of the sun with a magnifying glass.

Playing with shadows is fun for kids of all ages, and you can track a shadow through the day with this experiment from Science Sparks. If you’re working with multiple kids they can each choose an object to shadow (ha!) and at the end of the day you can see how different their shadows looked.

And of course you’ll want to make a sun themed suncatcher craft, right? This one from Fox Farm Home uses all the pretty flowers you collect on your nature walk and puts them in a sun-shaped frame.

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