Fun in the Laundry Basket!

Turkey Centerpiece

Gobble, Gobble!

Working on our Fine Motor Skills!

 We made shapes, houses, people, etc.... with Q-tips!  Great for fine motor skills and it kept them busy for a long time!

Cottonballs are great for sensory and fine motor skills!  They like to see how many they can fit into a container and use tweezers to pick them up.

Spooky Surprise Playdough Mix

This is what I made the kids for Halloween.  It is the dry mix to playdough.  I mix in some powdered orange kool-aid, so when they add the liquid ingredients it instantly changes color (that's the surprise!).  I give them each a Halloween cookie cutter too!  Once they make the playdough, then they have an airtight container to keep it in.  I couldn't find the orange ones they always have at Halloween, so I had to settle for red.  It was driving me crazy, but oh well!

Marble Painting a Spider Web

Fall Fun

Carving our Jack o' lantern!

 Paper Plate Pumpkins

Fingerprint Pumpkin Patch

Five Little Leaves Song

Five Little Leaves

Five Little leaves so happy and free,

Hung from the branch of a maple tree.

The wind came whistling all around (kids be wind).....,

And one little leaf came tumbling down.

(Countdown until all the leaves are gone!)

I cut-out five leaves and I hold them like I'm the tree and everytime the "wind" blows, I let one go.

I love to decorate for Fall!

Leaves

 Collecting Leaves and Sorting them into piles by their shape and color!

Cut leaves out of coffee filters and then we used watercolors to paint them.

 A leaf collage

We made a handprint leaf tree!

Apples

We read, "Ten Apples Up On Top" and then we stacked beanbag apples on our heads to see how many apples we could get up on top!  I made the beanbag apples with felt, beans and a hot glue gun.

Caramel Apples

We unwrapped all the caramels

Then we took out the stems

So Yummy!

 

Measuring Ourselves with Apples

There is a secret star inside every apple!

We painted it and......

Made apple prints!

Sorting Apples By Their Color

Making Patterns with Apples

Fingerprint Apple Trees

My Parent News Board and Mailboxes

Colored Rice and Pasta

Colored rice and pasta!  The kids love to scoop and pour it, pick it up with tweezers, and do art projects with them!  I colored them with liquid water color from http://www.discountschoolsupply.com

Playing with the pasta noodles!

Books About Fire Safety

(October is Fire Safety Month)

Fire! Fire! by Gail Gibbons

Super Truck by Mara Conlon

Dinofours: It's Fire Drill Day! by Steve Metzger

A Visit to the Firehouse by Dan Elliott

Firebears The Rescue Team by Rhonda G. Greene

Fire Truck by Peter Sis

Firefighters by Norma Simon

Flashing Fire Engines by Tony Mitton

BArney: Go to the Fire Station by Mark S. Bernthal

Curious George and the Firefighters by H.A. Rey

Cutaway Firefighters by Jon Kirkwood

Books About Halloween

The Little Scarecrow Boy by Margaret Wise Brown

Winnie the Pooh's Halloween by Bruce Talkington

Arthur's Halloween by Marc Brown

Little Ghost by Vivian French

Boo to You, Winnie the Pooh!

What a Scare, Jesse Bear by Nancy W. Carlstrom

Clifford's Halloween by Norman Bridwell

The Best Halloween Ever by John Speirs

Go On A Ghost Walk by Stan & Jan Berenstain

My Working Mom by Peter Galssman

A Costume for Bear by Kiki Thorpe

Thomas the Train: The Monster Under the Shed

The Halloween Play by Felicia Bond

Happy Halloween, Stinky Face by Lisa McCourt

Franklin's Halloween by Paulette Bourgeois

Dinofours: It's Halloween! by Steve Metzger

I Spy: A Scary Monster by Jean Marzollo

Inside a House That is Haunted by Alyssa S. Capucilli

Froggy's Halloween by Jonathan London

Dora's Costume Party by Christine Ricci

Barbie: Hooray for Halloween! by Diane W. Landolf

T-Rex Trick-or-Treats by Lois G. Grambling

Halloween Howl by Suzzane Collins

Spiders by Claire Llewellyn

Pooh's Happy Halloween by Ann Braybrooks

Halloween Rescue! by Cynthia Stierle

Maisy's Trick-or-Treat by Lucy Cousins

Clifford and the Halloween Parade by Norman Bridwell

Pooh's Halloween Parade by Isabel Gaines

Mouse's First Halloween by Lauren Thompson

We're Off to Find the Witch's House by Mr. Krieb

The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle

Books About Pumpkins

I Spy: A Pumpkin by Jean Marzollo

Bear's Bargain by Frank Asch

Dinofours: It's Pumpkin Day!

Pooh's Pumpkin by Isabel Gaines

Sixteen Runaway Pumpkins by Dianne Ochiltree

Pumpkin Patch Puppy by Danielle Denega

The Biggest Pumpkin Ever by Stephen Kroll

Five Little Pumpkins by Dan Yaccarino

The Prize Pumpkin by Stan & Jan Berenstain

Pumpkin Day, Pumpkin Night by Anne Rockwell

Pooh's Fall Harvest by Isabel Gaines

The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin by JoeTroiano

It's Pumpkin Time by Zoe Hall

The Pumpkin Book by Gail Gibbons

The Pumpkin Patch by Elizabeth King

Books About Leaves

Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert

Pooh's Leaf Pile by Isabel Gaines

Dinofours: It's Fall! by Steve Metzger

Clifford's First Autumn by Norman Bridwell

Fall Changes by Ellen B. Senisi

Why Do Leaves Change Color? by Betsy Maestro

Fresh Fall Leaves by Betsy Franco

The Falling Leaves by Steve Metzger

Fall Leaves by Mary Packard

When the Leaf Blew In by Steve Metzger

Books About Apples

Little Mouse and the Big Red Apple by A.H. Benjamin

Ten Apples Up On Top by Theo LeSieg

Apples by Gail Gibbons

The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall

Dappled Apples by Jan Carr

A Busy Year by Leo Lionni

How Do Apples Grow? by Betsy Maestro

I Am an Apple by jean Marzollo

Dinofours: It's Apple Picking Day! by Steve Metzger