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Pumpkin Seed Puzzles

Pumpkin Seed Puzzles

Happy Halloween! Use your leftover pumpkin seeds from jack-o-lantern making to make these pumpkin seed puzzles. This is great for number recognition and one-to-one correspondence. Here’s what you’ll need: orange construction paper, scissors, glue, marker, and pumpkin seeds…

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Autumn Tree with Leaf Sprinkles

Autumn Tree with Leaf Sprinkles

This festive Autumn Tree with Leaf Sprinkles craft was simple and fun for both of my boys…and it definitely highlighted their own unique personalities! Big Brother had the added bonus of some fine motor practice by tearing the leaves in…

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3D Tangled Pumpkin

3D Tangled Pumpkin

A few years ago, we made our two-dimensional version of the yarn pumpkin. This year, we decided to try something new and create a 3D Tangled Pumpkin! This crafts was messy, sticky, and lots of fun. I chose to do…

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Puffy Pumpkin Lacing

Puffy Pumpkin Lacing

This fun Puffy Pumpkin Lacing combines a fun fall craft with a little fine motor practice! We had lots of fun with this activity today–even Little Brother painted his own bag! That was all he wanted to do…but Big Brother was more…

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Ideas for Halloween Service Projects

Ideas for Halloween Service Projects

Guest Post by Emma Rae of Emma Rae’s Halloween The autumn season brings cool mornings, crisp leaves, school days, and a holiday filled with costumes, cookies, and candy. It seems that kids’ main focus on Halloween is to rake…

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Pine Cone Creatures

Pine Cone Creatures

The making of these Pine Cone Creatures was a very open-ended activity that captured the attention of both my 4-year old and my 2-year old equally! All you need are some pine cones, glue, googly eyes and whatever odds and…

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Pounding Golf Tees into a Pumpkin

Pounding Golf Tees into a Pumpkin

This was one of those ideas that I had on a whim that ended up being a HUGE success (as far as engaging the boys, anyway). Big Brother worked on pounding golf tees into a pumpkin for OVER AN…

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Fall Crafts And Activities for Toddlers & Preschoolers

Tomorrow is officially the first day of fall and the weather has certainly been fall-like around here! Here are 13 fall crafts and activities for toddlers and preschoolers to get you and your little ones in the mood for fall!…

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Rice Krispie Treat (Albino) Pumpkins

Rice Krispie Treat (Albino) Pumpkins

Did you hear the news??? Orange pumpkins are OUT and albino pumpkins are SO IN! Or at least that’s what I’m telling myself after I ran out of food coloring to make these pumpkin rice krispie treats for Big Brother’s…

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Coffee Filter ‘Stained Glass’ Pumpkins

Coffee Filter ‘Stained Glass’ Pumpkins

Big Brother and I made these cute stained glass pumpkins yesterday and they are now gracing our presence above the kitchen sink. We really enjoyed making these together, especially since they involved two things Big Brother LOVES to do…color and…

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3-D Pumpkin Puzzles

3-D Pumpkin Puzzles

Sometimes people ask me where I come up with my ideas. I’m REALLY not a very creative person (I’m not even a fan of crafting, at least on the adult level…mostly because I am completely inept). In all honestly, a…

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Autumn Leaves Song

*For those of you who are new here, I am going to apologize in advance (as I always do) for my terrible singing voice as well as the fact that you can barely hear that voice (count it as a…

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Exploring the Five Senses with a Pumpkin

We carved a pumpkin last night…for the first time since Big Brother was born. As expected, he wanted nothing to do with sticking his hand inside the icky pumpkin. (Just a forewarning–I have been playing around with the manual setting on…

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Jack-O-Lantern Shape Sorter

A lot of my ideas come from looking at a piece of “trash” and wondering…”what learning activity could we do with this?” The same is true for this activity! This Jack-O-Lantern Shape Sorter is made from a formula can. We’ve been…

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Autumn Tree

This activity is so simple…but it would have looked a lot better had I taken a picture of it on Friday (when we made it) rather than today since all of the leaves look shriveled and wilted. Our plans were…

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Personalized Leaf Rubbing

I wanted to make our leaf rubbings a little more personalized, so I was excited to find these “puffy stickers” at the dollar store! We chose to put Big Brother’s name on the leaves, but you could make cards saying…

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"Spooly" Pumpkin

Not only is this activity GREAT fine-motor practice for your little one (since it’s basically a lacing activity), it also makes for a super-cute decoration around the house! The inspiration for this little activity came while I realized I had…

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Balance Beam with "Fiery" Leaves

We combined some gross motor practice with some pretend play today in a very simple way. I dug out a 2×4 from our shed and placed it in the yard to be a balance beam. We raked up some leaves…

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