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Try This Fun Leaf-Rubbing Activity with Your Little Ones

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Taking leaf rubbings is a classic fall activity (and it happens to be a great motor skill developer, what with the holding, grasping and rubbing that’s going on).

You can make leaf rubbing into a fun activity with this printable book cover and activity ideas from Gift of Curiosity.

I could see this taking a whole afternoon, with walking around the yard or the neighborhood to collect leaves, selecting leaves to rub, doing the rubbings and making a book. Or you can keep it on your nature shelf for a child to discover and interact with when they are ready.

[Photo: Gift of Curiosity.]

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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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