Add wooden blocks or tree slices, little animals, real or fake leaves. Or you can make a whole sensory bin with acorns as the base, like this one from Learning and Exploring Through Play. Want to do activities with actual acorns? Head to the yard or the playground and gather up all you can find, then you can count them ( Happy Toddler Playtime), paint them ( Learn with Play at Home), stack acorn caps on top of an acorn (also Learn with Play at Home), make a wreath ( Craftulate) and sort and observe your acorns at the science table ( Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds). (You’ll want to laminate them and/or print on cardstock to make them more stable for little hands.)Ĭheck out this list of kids books about acorns from Homeschool Preschool. Seam Whisperer has super cute squirrel and acorn printable lacing cards, which are a great way to practice fine motor skills. Or make a more natural looking acorn with torn or cut construction paper and the printable from The Holly Dog Blog. Merry has a super cute printable acorn creature you can print out for kids to build. You could also use these letters for spelling sight words, in a sensory box or in lots of other ways. A traditional wax paper and crayon craft for Halloween Wax crayon pumpkins are a great way to use up all those broken bits of crayon. You can do more letter recognition by feeding the squirrel the acorn letters from ABCs of Literacy. Let’s make paper plate spiders A simple paper plate spider craft is a fun way for kids to get creative this Halloween. Match uppercase and lower case letters on acorn halves with this cute printable from Playdough to Plato. The squirrels in our neighborhood have been super busy so it must be time to talk about acorn learning activities. We’ve covered apples and pumpkins another favorite is acorns. There are so many fun objects that can be used as inspiration for learning activities in the fall. This might be easier for little kids without the scissors skills, and it’s a great fine motor activity. Speaking of spiderwebs, you can also make them with craft sticks and yarn. Get the instructions from One Little Project. Paper snowflakes are a classic winter craft, but why not make paper spider webs, too? The method is similar, you’re just cutting out chunks in lines instead of making other shapes. This idea would work for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, or really any time of year with any theme of stickers you have handy. It doesn’t get any easier that these paper plate wreaths kids help make by adding holiday stickers. I love the idea of adding an LED candle you could have a whole jack o’lantern display right in your classroom! This DIY is from Easy Peasy and Fun. Little kids might need help with the cutting on this paper plate jack o’lantern project, but even little ones can do most of the work of painting and drawing the face. Or how about a shape monster? Live Well Play Together has this cute idea that helps kids learn shapes while making funny monsters to decorate for Halloween. Learn how with this tutorial from Crafty Morning.įinger-painted monsters are another fun craft for younger kiddos, which can turn into a mixed-media project with the addition of googly eyes, yarn, paper hair, whatever your kids want to add. Ghosts are a fun and easy shape to make in lots of different ways, but I like the way this one allows kids to make unique ghost shapes with blow painting. Also be sure to check this adorable spider craft (as sometimes even spiders can be cute and this is coming from a person with huge arachnophobia).These easy Halloween crafts are great for decorating the classroom or using around the house in the fall. We love paper plates so we’ve got a whole bunch of Halloween paper plate crafts to share with you. These little pumpkins will look great on windows, doors, walls or hanging from the ceiling twisting and turning in the air. Glue them on the pinwheel (white school glue worked out great for us, although I think a low temp glue gun would be even better). You’ve got a paper pinwheel!Ĭut the scary (or cute) facial expressions for your Jack O’lantern. Now tie them both together and glue them together. Glue together.ĭo the same with the second piece of paper. 2 sheets of orange letter or A4 sized papersįold the paper link an accordion.We made toilet paper roll Jack O’Lanterns a few days back and the spooky fun just continues! Let’s “carve us” some Paper Jack O’Lanterns! This is such a fun Halloween craft for kids as it can easily double up as a decoration.
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