Fall is a great time to gather natural materials to using in play, art and learning, and there are a great variety of things you can do with them, from painting on leaves to making collages of natural materials, drawing … Read More ...
Paper Plate Skeleton Tutorial
Pickup Some Creativity has a great skeleton craft and all you need is paper plates and a few other items! She has a great template and tutorial you will not want to miss! Perfect for teaching your children about the … Read More ...
Free Halloween Themed Printables for Kids
Halloween printables are one of those wonderfully handy resources that can save the day when you need a quick classroom activity, party game, quiet-time worksheet, or something festive to keep little hands busy while the excitement builds. Whether you’re a … Read More ...
Marshmallow Ghost
No Time For Flashcards shows a great ‘ fine motorskills’ craft perfect to pair up with a Halloween book. This marshmallow ghost iwll be fun for all participants! (Can you tell I like marshmallows?)
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Great Kid’s Sensory Craft- Foam Cauldron
All About ME: has such a cute and unique idea for creating a bubbly cauldron filled with icky yucky things for Halloween…your children will love picking out where they want their spiders and such to go!
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Bat Crafts and Learning Activities
Bring a bit of Halloween fun into the classroom or your learning activities at home by learning about bats and making bat crafts.
We’ve probably all read the book Stellaluna, right? Make your own hanging bats with clothespins and basic … Read More ...
Download this Free Ebook Full of Science Ideas for Early Learners
I just came across this amazing resource from Science Sparks: a free ebook on science for the early years, full of fun experiments you can do with a classroom of kids or with your own child.
There’s some really … Read More ...
Talk About Social Skills with Five Little Pumpkins
It’s always fun when you can work the seasons and holidays into learning activities (such as these roundups of fall learning activities, pumpkin learning activities and apple learning activities), and this activity for teaching about emotions with Five … Read More ...
Halloween Eye Spy Bottle
This Halloween craft is great for preschool and early elementary ages. Pink and Green Mama has a compilation of Halloween crafts, and this is one of them. She features it on her blog and you can see how its made. … Read More ...
Mummy Onesie Halloween Costume
When Halloween comes, and I have a baby, I like to dress them in onesie costumes. Since I live in Florida, onesies make a lot more sense than really heavy, hooded, fluffy costumes (not that there is anything wrong … Read More ...
Book Page Pumpkin Tutorial
In most cases, I am completely against destroying books…I love books, I read books, books make me happy. But this craft is a wonderful reason to sit down with your child, let them practice their cutting skills and create a … Read More ...
Combine Science and Art with Paintball Bombs
This homemade paintball bomb experiment would be cool any time of year, but it might be really fun to do this experiment and use the bombs to paint a pumpkin.
Teach Beside Me has all the details of how to … Read More ...
Pop-Up Halloween Puppet
ByBido has a great tutorial for a craft that looks difficult, but is really very simple to do with your children. I love crafts that spark imagination, and this one does it two-fold….children create their own ‘characters’, and then act … Read More ...
Getting Ready for Halloween
Is your family getting geared up for Halloween? Here’s a really easy and inexpensive Halloween bag decorating craft that would be fun for any age! The tutorial even includes a printable stencil for the pumpkin bag face or make up … Read More ...
Do Pumpkin Investigations with this Printable
I’ve already shared a bunch of pumpkin learning activities, but this one is great, too, so I wanted to make sure to include it.
The free pumpkin investigations printable from the STEM Laboratory is an easy way for you … Read More ...