Fall Preschool Activities

Autumn - a time for slowing down and getting ready for the holiday seasons that are coming at you full throttle. The leaves are changing color and Santa is everywhere, even if it is months until Christmas. Fall is a time of change. There are many different angles to think of when teaching the preschoolers about Fall.

Pumpkin pudding can be made in honor of more than one holiday. Let the kids join in with you when you are making the pudding. Here's one of the easier recipes: Beat one 5.1 oz vanilla instant pudding and pie filling mix with on 12 oz. can evaporated milk and refrigerate for five minutes. Add one 15 oz. can pumpkin, one-teaspoon pumpkin pie spice and then mix well. It is ready to server after ten more minutes in the fridge.

Art is always a welcomed activity for the wee ones. Using Fall colored construction paper, paint and playdough you can create leaves that have fallen from the trees, pumpkins, or perhaps scarecrows and turkeys.

A take off of the old Mr. Potato Head is the Mr. Pumpkin Head. Just use small pumpkins and parts from Mr. Potato Head to let the children create their own pumpkin people.

Perhaps your kids would like to make something different for the doors of their homes to greet their guests during the season. Fall Wreaths can be just that something. Using Styrofoam rings available at any craft store; you can stick most anything into them to make the wreath. For instance: acorns, leaves, Fall colored flowers or Pigna.

Autumn Leaf Placemats can be a beautiful addition to a table. Use black and white documents, the children can paint or color to customize for the autumn.

collection of leaves is easy to do, as all fall from the trees. Ask the children to press their books and make them if you like.

Singing is loved by many. Select a song about turkeys, pumpkins and autumn, to singing with the children. For example, written by Jean Warren saw a leaf for an amount of My DarlingClementine:

Saw a leaf,

Saw a leaf,

Saw a leaf falling down.

It was floating,

It was twirling,

As it spun and spun around.

Tried to catch it,

Tried to catch it

When it landed on the ground.

But it kept right on twirling

As it danced across the town.

Handprint turkeys are easy to make around Thanksgiving time. Have the kids trace their hands with a pencil. The thumb will become the beak and the fingers the feather of the turkey. Don't forget to add the feet!

Landscape paintings are beautiful creations from art the preschoolers can enjoy. Just provide them paper and paint and let them loose. Perhaps give them an idea like where is their favorite place to spend Fall.

Pin the leaf on a tree. Played like Pin the Tail on the Donkey. Draw the skeleton of a tree on butcher paper and tack to a wall in the room. Try real leaves or leaves cut from construction paper and have the kids re-leaf the tree.

Colorful, tranquil and always changing is the season of Fall. Bright colors and foreboding skeletons of trees as well as the anticipation of the upcoming holidays fill the air. Teach the preschoolers about change, color, holidays and gatherings - you can't miss! After all, it's all a part of Fall.