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Help Your Kids Get Used to Wearing Masks

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If your kids are going to school in person at all for the foreseeable future, it’s likely they will have to wear face masks at some point. Make it a little easier on the teachers and help them get used to the idea and practice of wearing masks now and it will be less scary/annoying when school starts.

Dana at Bias Behavioral has a great set of tips for parents to help their kids get used to wearing masks.

One that we’ve done in our family is putting masks on dolls, and she gets to pick the masks she wants from a variety that I am making.

Click over to her post for all the tips. If something has worked for you I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Bias Behavioral.]

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  2. Where I live, and I think it’s true in lots of places in the United States that have mask mandates, kids over 10 have to wear them and they are recommended over age 2. Some schools are also requiring masks since they can’t have kids sit six feet apart.

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Candy Corn Learning Activities

Love it or hate it, candy corn is a graphic shape and fun colors that’s a great theme for learning activities around Halloween. Whether you use actual candy in your activities or just candy shaped or colored objects, there are lots of things you can do.

Preschoolers can make this easy torn paper candy corn craft from Thriving Home Blog, and a bunch of them would make a great bunting style classroom decoration.

Practice counting from 1 to 20 with the free candy corn counting cards printable from Primary Playground. You can use actual candy corn to count out the numbers, or try pop poms or buttons in orange and yellow if you don’t want to play with food in the classroom.

Get more candy corn math printables from Math Geek Mama. Her set includes counting to 100 with candy corn, candy corn counting mats and three-part puzzles with the number, the word and dots to count.

This Reading Mama has a great post from Tot Schooling all about using candy corn as manipulatives for fall activities. It includes free printables where you can use candy corn to trace the upper case letters of the alphabet, count to 10 using one-to-one correspondence, and build fine-motor skills by using candy corn to decorate a tree and a jack o’lantern.

Little Zizzers has more candy corn printables, including making patterns, math and bingo (perfect for a classroom Halloween party!).

Get young kids introduced to coding without a computer with this simple and fun candy corn coding activity from Forward with Fun. Print out the maze and use candy corn as your direction arrows to navigate the maze without running into any of the obstacles. Even with the relatively easy project kids are already learning the basics of coding such as directional inputs (and that diagonal is not an option) and avoiding redundant code.

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