Autumn / Fall preschool theme suggestions and ideas

Attie Autumn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WdRuW1EQ8s&feature=youtu.be

This is an obvious seasonal focused curriculum unit.

It includes making a lunch bag puppet (template printable patterns are always included), discussing weather appropriate attire, counting and number recognition, fall based colors and a tactile / textured art piece that is just as much fun collecting for it as it is making it.

Have the students make a cute little leaf book again focused on colors.

Decorate pumpkins with fun 'emotion' faces.

Collect corn and figure out what a piece of apple pie is selling for – coin recognition.

Next answer 'What belongs together?' and sort the harvest of apples by size.

Make some lacing cards that can be utilized over and over or sent home for great keepsakes or use as practice lacing mats.

The folder game will have the students matching corn and pumpkin upper and lower case alphabet.

This unit covers several topics all under one umbrella of 'Autumn'.

Heart Butterflies Art Project - Great for Preschool through 2nd Grade

Heart Butterflies are an easy art project for Valentine's Day, Life Cycle theme or even a Spring project.


Use one of the Heart patterns from the Sampler Download Membership (www.Tools4PreschoolandKindergarten.com).  The complimentary membership contains several sizes of hearts.


Cut out 2 of the hearts per art project and have the students decorate using markers, glue and glitter, magazine pictures, letters - example: B, stickers, yarn or anything that would be developmentally appropriate for your group. Let the hearts dry.


Use a large craft / popsicle stick to paste the pointed tips of the hearts onto (place on the upper area of the stick).  Leave enough room to glue googly eyes and antennae onto the butterfly (or draw them onto the stick).


This project can also be used to create puppets for circle time, to act out a story or even a rhyme. 


This is a great after school activity for even older students when you need to pass a few minutes in between activities or assignments.