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TEXTURE TURKEYS IN OIL PASTEL

These are just too cute!!! The kids love them, the teachers love them. A great lesson in texture.

DIGITAL DOWNLOAD of TEXTURE TURKEYS FALL ART LESSON

is available on ETSY & TEACHERS PAY TEACHERS

Materials: Black Cardstock, pencil & eraser, crayola or craypas oil pastels

Draw out a turkey.

Start with the texture of the head, neck and body. Color in the beak, legs, eyes and the red bit hanging.

Then I let the students choose 2 colors for each tail feather texture and add a second color to the wing.

Happy Fall!!

-Art Teacher in LA

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Oil Pastel Texture Turkeys - Art Teacher in LA

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TEXTURE TURKEYS IN OIL PASTEL These are just too cute!!! The kids love them, the teachers love them. A great lesson in texture. DIGITAL DOWNLOAD of TEXTURE TURKEYS FALL ART LESSON is available on ETSY & TEACHERS PAY TEACHERS Materials: Black Cardstock, pencil & eraser, crayola or craypas oil pastels Draw out a turkey.

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Recently, I shared that my students in fourth grade are working on creating their own Tiny Art Show. Because I was going to be out of school for a couple of days visiting the art teachers in Vermont, I needed a lesson to keep my students engaged. I created this Tiny Gallery of Gratitude sheet for my third and fourth grade students. I hope they enjoyed it (I'll find out tomorrow!) but fingers crossed they did. If you think your student would like it too, here's a link to the FREE PDF.

I gathered these books for my sub to start the lesson with. They are all wonderful books to introduce the idea of gratitude. Because my sub would be with my students for a couple of days, I asked that she read a book at the start of each class...but I let her decide which ones to read.

Here is the sheet I created for my kindergarten through second grade students. (link works, just click on bold sentence!)

As for supplies, I set out pencils, erasers and color pencils for my students to use. I asked that the sub save the work so that we could return to this drawing as a sketch for early finishers. I also want to see what they drew!
If you are interested in other projects that show gratitude, here you go:

This Gallery of Gratitude lesson was a HUGE hit with the entire school with all creative hands on deck. I cannot recommend doing this lesson enough!

I recently did an updated version of the Gallery of Gratitude and I love it even more! We used modeling clay and did a bit of writing out the faculty and/or staff member we were grateful for. Lesson here and here.

Helping my students understand what gratitude is and how to show it is very important to me. Do you have lessons that you love that help spread gratitude? I'd love to hear about them!

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In the Art Room: Tiny Gallery of Gratitude

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Students use the links in this website to create a lapbook, poster or minibook about autumn:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/autumn/what-is-autumn

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Find out about autumn in simple text for children

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Thank you, for the sunshine
(Stretch arms overhead in circle)

Thank you, for the rain
(Move fingers down)
Thank you, for things that grow
(Move hands up)
Thank you, for good food to eat
(Make circle around tummy)
Thank you, for families that love us. (Cross arms over chest)
Happy thanksgiving!

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Use vocabulary cards including one with a turkey on it.

Put all the cards together in a box and pass it around.

Kids pick up a card, say the word and show it to everyone.

They pass on the box to the next person.

If they get the turkey card, everyone goes “gobble, gobble, gobble”.

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Arrange the children in a circle. Pass a turkey around as everyone says:

Turkey, turkey, around you go

Where you’ll stop, nobody knows
Tell me what you're thankful for.

But when you do, someone must say what they are thankful for this day. The player holding the turkey when the chant ends, must say aloud, one thing for which they are thankful. This continues until everyone has had a turn.

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ty beanie buddies gobbles - turkey [toy]

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Ty Beanie Buddies Gobbles - Turkey [Toy]

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Ty Beanie Buddies Gobbles - Turkey [Toy]: Amazon.es: Juguetes y juegos

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Download pattern: http://www.earlylearningactivities.com/PDF/tcpc.pdf
More info: https://www.childcareland.com/home/turkey-clothespin-counting

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Kids can make turkey feathers with play dough to place on the turkey while they count. Print the mats and either laminate them or slip them into clear page protectors.
Download mats:
https://prekinders-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Turkey-Play-Dough.pdf

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Print the mats and either laminate them or slip them into clear page protectors. Students identify the numeral on each page, and count out the correct number of nuts to place on the mat. Children can use  play dough to make the nuts by simply rolling the play dough into a ball.
https://prekinders-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Squirrel-Play-Dough.pdf

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http://www.aroundthetable.flemings.in/2012/11/thankful-feathers.html

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Reading and coloring + writing

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This poem is written in a two-line pattern:

Goodbye, {summer thing},

Hello, {autumn thing}.

The poem can be short or long, depending on how many ideas you have. Older students can add adjectives before the nouns.

Help your students by asking open-ended questions: What different drinks do you enjoy in summer and autumn? What do you wear on your feet?

Here’s a list of topics that might spur ideas for a seasonal poem:

- outside/indoor activities

- weather

- drinks/meals

- clothes

- animals

- places to visit

Students add illustrations to their poems.

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Repetitive pattern. “Leaves on…”

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Use topic vocabulary to write simple sentences. Use present continuous.

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Students use the cards to ask and answer the questions in part 2.

They can also create their own speaking cards.

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Students describe a picture and talk about it for up to a minute.

Remind them to talk about the people (actions, clothes, physical description…) and the place (objects, food, background…)

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by Jack Prelutsky

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This isn't just a turkey,
as everyone can see.
I made it with my hand,
which is a part of me.

It comes with lots of love,
especially to say,
I hope you have a
Great Thanksgiving Day!

https://www.allfreecrafts.com/thanksgiving/handprint-turkey/

http://melanielee86.blogspot.com/2012/10/thanksgiving-turkey-hand-prints.html

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Looking for something different for that autumn display in the classroom or some useful non-fiction texts? These autumn fact sheets include information about squirrels, conkers, hedgehogs nd trees.

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Free printable primary classroom display resources relating to the autumn season.

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https://www.topmarks.co.uk/media/autumn/AutumnDays.pdf

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Chant: "Gobble, gobble, gobble. Gobble, gobble, gobble. Do the turkey trot!" Encourage children to move like…

BIG turkeys

Little turkeys

Tired turkeys

Happy turkeys

Scared turkeys

...

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Turkey Trot | Preschool Thanksgiving Activity for Children | Cullen's Abc's

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Show your students a picture of a turkey and tell them to move around like a turkey.  When you put the turkey down they have to freeze.

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Use some sticky velcro at the back and use it for the action songs:
- Have you ever seen a turkey?
- Brown feather, brown feather, what do you see?
Download the template below.

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Each student decorates a clothespin.

All the kids get one clothespin pinned on to the back of their shirt or coat. Then the person in charge yells “Run, Turkey, Run!”  The kids all have to run and get clothespins off the others’ shirts. After a minute or so, the in charge person yells “Stop, Turkey, Stop!”  Everyone has to freeze where they are. Then continue on like that. The person with more clothespins wins!
https://lets-get-together.com/2014/10/20/diy-turkey-tag/

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What's The Weather Like Today - THE KIBOOMERS Preschool Songs for Circle Time

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Autumn version of "Simon Says". You can also play this game with the actions of "Scarecrow, Scarecrow" song.

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TheLearningStation - Kids Songs and Nursery Rhymes

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Autumn Songs for Kids ♫ Scarecrow Song ♫ Children's Fall Songs ♫ Kids Songs by The Learning Station

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by Nancy Davis

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The Leaf, Leaf, Pinecone is a version of the classic “Duck, Duck, Goose”. This game is best played outdoors or in the gym.

Whoever is “it” must not only touch the heads of the other players, saying, “Leaf, leaf, leaf,” but must also drop a pinecone in the lap of the child they choose before running back around the circle without being tagged.

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Kindergarten Kids Playing Duck Duck Goose on Earth Day!

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Students can use one coloured card to trace their hand and share the scraps to make the fingers.

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Teaching Tip #7: Thanksgiving Activity Idea

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To the tune of "Head, shulders, knees and toes".

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TheLearningStation - Kids Songs and Nursery Rhymes

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Orange, Yellow, Red and Brown - Seasons Songs for Kid - Kids Color Songs - By The Learning Station

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Children pretend to be squirrels gathering nuts. Use hula hoops for the “squirrels” to put their “nuts” in.

When the music stops, the “squirrels” go “home” (hula hoops). Take away one hoop each time the music stops so that the “squirrels” have to share “homes.”

Have children pretend to be squirrels gathering and hiding nuts while you sing a fun song about a little squirrel.

(Tune: "I’m a Little Teapot)

I’m a little squirrel, fuzzy and gray.
When fall comes, I gather nuts all day.
So that when the winter comes, you see,
I’ll have food for my family and me.
http://twigglemagazine.com/November-activities/fall-movement-activity.html

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https://www.allkidsnetwork.com/crafts/thanksgiving/toilet-paper-roll-turkey.asp

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"Pete the Cat and the First Thanksgiving"

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"Pete the Cat and the First Thanksgiving"

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by James Dean

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Pete The Cat ~ The First Thanksgiving Children's Read Aloud Story Book For Kids By James Dean

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by Teresa Bateman

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"I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie"

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"I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie"

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Our Old Lady is at it again! In this Thanksgiving edition she swallows all the dinner fixings and becomes a Thanksgiving Day balloon!

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By Todd Parr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ByHi5FmOH4

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Printable fall match game.

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NOTE: This packet was originally published in 2012! I've completely revised it with new fonts and graphics for the 2017 Fall Season. Because I enjoy taking a walk down memory lane, I left the original post as-is. ♥

The original post for Fall Match Game:

Since Fall is just around the corner, it's time to start thinking about and printing fun Fall things for my little ones!

During preschool this week, we're going to start a few of our mornings with this Fall Match Game.

How We'll Use This Fall Match Game in Our School

On some days, my 3-year-old and I will play a Memory-style match game, but I'll only use 3-4 of the matches so I don't overwhelm her.

Other days, we'll use all of the cards, but I'll place them face-up just a few at the time. Then she'll gather matches as soon as she finds a pair.

My Kindergartner and I can play a "real" Memory-style match game, as she's old enough to remember where specific cards are.

And lastly, I can use this Fall Match Game with my almost 2-year-old. We'll sit together and say the names of each of the pictures. She's in the mimic stage of talking (so sweet!) and she'll love repeating all of the picture names.

This one little set of printable match pieces can be used with three different levels of early learners. Love that!

Click the image below to download Fall Match Game for personal use only

Click here to purchase Fall Match Game for classroom use:

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and it's all because of my son's kindergarten teacher...

who sent home this:

a poor naked turkey.

our assignment as a family was to dress it up...

(my craft ocd wanted me to overtake it and make it all myself so it would be awesome and i wouldn't have to compromise to the kids.)

but i acted like a good mother and didn't.

(and guess what it turned out even awesomer than expected)

and i even asked my son what colors he wanted

and he said rainbow.

the teacher sent home instructions that said, be creative. you could use macaroni or beads or feathers....

so i got to thinking...and came up with this idea.....

I started ripping out colorful pages in a few family circle magazines...

and each kid picked a color they were in charge of

and they had a square of white cardstock

and their assignment was this: cover all the white with your color...

but it involved some glue and scissors so they were content....

each square was so fun and unique...

they really did a great job....

then i took each and cut feather shapes from each color

and a body from the brown..

(and after i got the brown turkey on i thought...oh geez...we should have made a turkey dressed in camoflauge.

that would have been too funny.)

but we had all those colors...so i just glued them around the turkey!

we keep commenting on the how cute our turkey is! so fun. we might have to make a rainbow picture for our wall in the future!

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omigosh. an actual thanksgiving craft before thanksgiving. - A girl and a glue gun

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and it's all because of my son's kindergarten teacher... who sent home this: a poor naked turkey. our assignment as a family was to dress it up... as a family. (my craft ocd wanted me to overtake it and make it all myself so it would be awesome and i wouldn't have to compromise to ...

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This is a preschool activity for developing fine motor skills.

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Playdough Turkeys Preschool and Kindergarten Fine Motor Activity

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by Alyssa Satin Capucilli

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Perfect to work on fine motor skills

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Looking for an adorable way for your preschoolers to practice fine motor skills during Thanksgiving? Toddlers and preschoolers alike will love this simple Clothespin Feathers Turkey!

Clothespin Feathers Turkey

I made this clothespin feathers turkey to work on fine motor skills with Caden and was disappointed when he wasn't interested. But this year when I brought it out he was up for the challenge! And I decided to give it its own blog post since so many of you seem to like it!

Supplies:

How to:

To make a clothespin feathers turkey, cut two circles, one bigger than the other out of brown craft foam. Then hot glued these two circles together. Add a turkey face using googly eyes, and foam sticker shapes. For the feathers, hot glued small craft feathers onto standard wooden clothespins.

Set Up:

When I said this activity was a challenge, I meant it. Caden had to really persevere in order to clip all the feathers on the turkey. I helped him get started by clipping on one feather and then encouraged him to try on his own. He stuck with it, figuring out how to squeeze the clothespin together to open it, but had a hard time holding the flimsy turkey while trying to clip the feathers on. I think if I were to make another one I would use cardboard or even laminated cardstock would be sturdier.

Caden got all the feathers on and then came to the red feather, got frustrated and hid under the chair for several minutes while I encouraged him to come out and finish putting all the feathers on the turkey. I made the turkey talk, asking for his red feather and got lots of giggles but Caden didn't budge from under the chair. Then I tried a little trick the occupational therapist suggested. I told Caden I was going to sing the ABC's and when I was finished singing he had to come out from under the chair and clip the red feather on. It worked like a charm! And Caden got the red feather on with only a little help from me to stabilize the turkey. He was so proud!

Here is Caden's completed turkey! The red feather may have been put on backwards, but that doesn't matter to me! I am so proud of Caden for sticking with it and getting all the feathers on the turkey!

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Clothespin Feathers Turkey | Stir The Wonder

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Looking for an adorable way for your preschoolers to practice fine motor skills during Thanksgiving? Toddlers and preschoolers alike will love this simple Clothespin Feathers Turkey! I made this clothespin feathers turkey to work on fine motor skills with Caden and was disappointed when he wasn't interested.

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www.paper-and-glue.com/2014/11/native-american-pattern-headbands.html

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Alyssa Satin Capucilli

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Using bold graphics and few words, Rain explores concepts like weather, colors, and a changing landscape. It's a book for very young readers.

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Autumn - Fall Word Searches & Puzzles - Tea Time Monkeys

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Use these word puzzles to practise autumn / fall vocabulary with your kids! Includes word searches and letter/word match games in 3 levels of difficulty.

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Print and laminate to use it with wipe clean pens. Use these printable maze with fast finishers.

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A collection of Fall themed mazes and worksheets for kids. Featuring a Thanksgiving turkey, pumpkin, Autumn leaf, acorn, and apples.
Fine Motor Skills for Fall (September, October & November Activity Packs)
Geoboard: Students use rubber bands to create the pictures on a geoboard. These include one thematic picture alongside a letter or number.

Thematic Mazes: Students solve the mazes and follow the prompts.

Play Dough Mat: Students use playdough to complete the prompts. These prompts will require students to roll and make different shapes, or to use playdough to complete the picture.

Thematic Tracing Pages: Students trace the pictures with colored pencils or fine tip markers.

Dot-2-Dot & Pin & Poke: Students cut apart the halves. The first half of the page is a simple dot-2-dot worksheet. The second half of the page is a Pin & Poke picture. Students use a pin to poke a picture onto colored construction paper. *Layer the picture, construction paper, then foam core board and tape the edges. Students use a pushpin to poke through the layers. When complete, remove to reveal a picture on the construction paper.

Dab & Dot: Students use daubers to Dab by Number to reveal the mystery picture.

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A collection of Fall themed mazes and worksheets for kids. Featuring a Thanksgiving turkey, pumpkin, Autumn leaf, acorn, and apples. Fine Motor Skills for Fall (September, October & November Activity Packs) Geoboard: Students use rubber bands to create the pictures on a geoboard. These include one thematic picture alongside a letter or number.

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Fall the Leaves Rhyme & Word Card Activity

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Fall the Leaves Rhyme & Word Card Activity

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Slowly say the nursery rhyme, each time the children hear one of the key words, each child should hold up that card. Repeat the game as many times as the children are interested.

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Fall the Leaves Rhyme & Word Card Activity

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Thanksgiving Wordsearch - This Thanksgiving themed word search features key vocabulary for this topic. Great for consolidating spelling, you can use this resource as an opening to other independent writing activities, or just for fun!

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Thanksgiving Spot the Difference - Tim's Printables

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All of Tim's Printables in one convenient location.

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by Yoojin Kim
A beautiful pop-up book that is all about the season of colors.

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Leaves: An Autumn Pop-up Book by Yoojin Kim

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The Busy Little Squirrel by Nancy Tafuri

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History and culture + quiz

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Inspired by Eric Carle's "Brown bear what do you see?"

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Children's Thanksgiving Songs ~ Turkey Feather's Felt Board Story

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You could either use these Autumn Words pages as a useful word mat to write poems.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/autumn/autumn-printables

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This video has no written text but the pictures are great to explain the origin of Thanksgiving.

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Cuento del Día de acción de gracias para niños - Thanksgiving for Kids

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The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle: Read Aloud Children's Book: Text : Kids and Toddlers

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Worksheet
Video Transcript

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VIDEO: "British Holidays - Guy Fawkes Day"

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VIDEO: "British Holidays - Guy Fawkes Day"

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sanat etkinliği İlkbahar Flaş Kartları Ana okulu etkinlikleri Belirtilen Renklere Göre En Çok Beğeni Alan Etkinlikler

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My children love sparkler fireworks but as a mum I find them a bit scary and worry about possible accidents and burns! Don't you?

Here's a fun and easy firework craft so your children can make their own safe 'sparklers' to enjoy again and again.

These play sparklers have a lovely crackling sound to them too that makes the firework experience all the more life-like! I think they're a great way for children to re-enact and play make-believe firework celebrations all year round.

Whether you're celebrating Bonfire Night, the Fourth of July, New Year or a birthday, this sparkler firework craft will be a great addition to the festivities and when they're not being played with they double up to make colourful and fun table decorations too.

Supplies To Make A Homemade Firework Toy

(This post contains affiliate links.)

How To Make A Homemade Firework Toy

Cut a sheet of tin foil to the same size size as the A4 cellophane. Choose two colours of cellophane and sandwich the tin foil between them.

Lengthways fold the 3 layers in half or nearly in half. Here we've folded it nearly in half which gives different lengths of tassels in the finished firework craft. Folding the sheets in half will mean that all the tassel lengths are all the same. There is no right or wrong, it's really just a matter of personal choice. Maybe you could make a few and try different lengths for each one?

From the open end cut strips towards the fold being careful not to actually cut through the fold itself. Continue cutting strips all along the length of the sheets of cellophane and foil. This is great activity for building fine motor skills. young children might find it a bit tricky to cut through lots of layers at the same time. if they do just cut each layer separately and slide them back together afterwards.

Wrap the cut cellophane and foil tightly around the end of straw using sticky tape every now and again to secure it. If you don't like the look of the sticky tape you could use glue. I prefer to use sticky tape because I find that often children want to play with their firework craft straight away and don't want to have to wait for glue to dry before they can start whizz, bang, popping!

Continue rolling until all of the cellophane and foil is tightly wrapped and stuck around the end of the straw.

Gently open out all the individual layered strips to give a wonderful pom-pom like head to your homemade firework sparkler toy.

This is a lovely easy firework craft for children to make. The supplies are nice and cheap too so you can have lots of fun making all sorts of different coloured 'safe' sparklers.

Children will love the gentle crackling sound the tin foil makes when they shake and whizz-pop their toy sparklers around, it helps make them seem quite real!

We only get a few opportunities to enjoy fireworks throughout the year so this homemade firework craft is great for letting children have their own firework celebrations again and again through out the whole year. What a fabulous pretend play opportunity and a great way to practise all those firework based words that they don't get to hear day-to-day otherwise.

Looking for more colourful ideas? You might like to look at our Colourful Lanterns or Sand Art Project and we have a fab Pinterest board dedicated to children's crafts that you might like to follow.

More Exciting Christmas and New Year Crafts To Try:

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My children love sparkler fireworks but as a mum I find them a bit scary and worry about possible accidents and burns! Don't you? Here's a fun and easy firework craft so your children can make their own safe 'sparklers' to enjoy again and again.

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Do you remember making your own scratch paper when you were younger? Well I certainly do and it is great fun to make with your kids and perfect for Firework pictures too.

Whilst we were making the fireworks we talked about how dangerous they are close up, but how colourful and beautiful they are.

I love how the boys made a completely different picture from the same starting point.
Materials:

Paper

Crayons or oil pastels

Black tempura or acrylic paint

Washing up liquid

Foam applicator (you could use a paint brush)

Method:

We all had so much fun colouring in our sheets of paper with crayons, making sure they were as colourful as possible.

We then mixed the black paint with a good squirt of washing up liquid and used the sponge applicator to color the crayon.

We applied a second coat on some of the sheets when the first one dried and then the sheets were ready to be used.

For a matt finish use tempura paint and got a glossy finish acrylic is best.

If you like these Firework crafts then why not have a go at making our child safe edible sparklers or bonfire art.

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Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest StumbleUpon YummlyDo you remember making your own scratch paper when you were younger? Well I certainly do and it is great fun to make with your kids and perfect for Firework pictures too.

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On November 5th there are a number of quick and easy Bonfire Night Crafts that you can make. One of our old favourites is painting crayon resist firework scene pictures. They are easy to make even for early mark makers.

First use crayons to draw your fireworks. You can draw "star" lines...

draw swirls...

or draw curved lines. A variety of different fireworks looks great and you can even add a simple bonfire.

Next paint over the whole sheet with a black or dark blue watercolour (you can mix poster paint with water if you don't have watercolour paints). Crayon resists water so your crayon pattern resists the paint.

This technique very quickly makes effective Bonfire Night paintings.

Display them to decorate your home for Bonfire Night.
This crayon resist technique is also great for secret messages. Write a message in white crayon and ask a friend to paint over to read the message. I used to write my kids names for them to paint over while they learnt to read and write their names too.

What Bonfire Night crafts have you made this year? Have you made a Guy?

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Bonfire Night Craft: Paint a Crayon Resist Firework Picture - Diary of the Evans-Crittens

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Some articles on Diary of the Evans-Crittens, www.evans-crittens.com may contain affiliate links. Click here to read my disclosure policy. On November 5th there are a number of quick and easy Bonfire Night Crafts that you can make. One of our old favourites is painting crayon resist firework scene pictures.

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by Tim Hopgood
The spider builds his web over and over again which provides a great introduction to shapes (triangle, square, circle...). Yet it is also an inspiring book about not giving up and finding a solution

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by Tim Hopgood

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by Tim Hopgood
A perfect preschool introduction to the nocturnal world with something to count on every page - all the way from one to ten!

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Vicky's FunTime x Music Together 林口授權中心（貝爾美語．音樂．繪本．Little Bear & Friends）

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Vicky's FunTime x Music Together 林口授權中心（貝爾美語．音樂．繪本．Little Bear & Friends）

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To the tune of "Did you ever see a lassie?"

Did you ever see a turkey, a turkey, a turkey,
Who struts around the farm yard with feathers so bright?
With red ones and orange ones and yellow ones and brown ones,
Did you ever see a turkey with feathers so bright.

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Did You Ever See a Turkey? | Thanksgiving Songs for Children | Cullen's Abc's

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To the tune of "London Bridge is falling down"

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Autumn Leaves are Falling Down Children or Kids Song | Cullen's Abc's

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Here's another version with actions. To the tune of "London Brigde is falling down"

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Finger song to the tune of "Where is Thumbkin."

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Thanksgiving songs for children - 5 Fat Turkeys song - Littlestorybug

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A fun action song sung to the tune of "Wheels on the bus" .

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Thanksgiving songs for children - Turkey on the Farm - Littlestorybug

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A counting song for preschoolers with matching printable puppets you can download here. https://picklebums.com/printable-autumn-leaf-puppets-and-a-song/

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A wonderful fall song with sign language:
Come under my umbrella, umbrella, umbrella
Come under my umbrella, it's starting to rain
With thunder and lightning and thunder and lightning
Come under my umbrella, it's starting to rain.

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Gray squirrel, gray squirrel
Shake your bushy tail.
Gray squirrel, gray squirrel
Shake your bushy tail.
Wrinkle up your little nose,
Put a nut between your toes.
Gray squirrel, gray squirrel
Shake your bushy tail.

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Brown Squirrel, Brown Squirrel, Shake Your Bushy Tail: Storytime Song

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Tune: London Bridge

Little raindrops falling down, falling down, falling down
Little raindrops falling down, falling to the ground

Bigger raindrops - clap
Giant raindrops - stomp

And here's another video that shows you how to create a rainstorm with your hands: http://youtu.be/5pkSQqPpNAY

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Little Raindrops Falling Down: Storytime Song

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Fall and Autumn Counting Song for Kids - How Many Leaves? - ELF Learning

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Autumn Leaves Are Falling Down - The Kiboomers Preschool & Circle Time Songs - Fall Song

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(Sung To: I'm A Little Teapot)

I'm a little turkey,
my name is Ted.
Here are my feathers,
here is my head.

Gobble, gobble, gobble,
is what I say
Gobble, gobble, gobble,
It's thanksgiving Day!

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Lyrics and instrumental version: https://www.englishforkidz.com/2012/11/autumn-fall-song-for-children.html

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Autumn (Fall) Song for Children | Simple Song to Learn English | ESL

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To the tune of "Twinkle twinkle little star"

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Way up high in the apple tree (stretch arms up high)
I saw five apples looking at me (hold up five fingers)
I shook that tree as hard as I could (make a shaking motion)
Down came 1 apple (make a downward motion)
And mmm, it was good! (smile and rub stomach)
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Five Apples In The Apple Tree Lyric Video - The Kiboomers Preschool Songs & Nursery Rhymes

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A song about the First Thanksgiving.

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They Were the Pilgrims (song for kids about the First Thanksgiving)

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TheLearningStation - Kids Songs and Nursery Rhymes

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Thanksgiving Songs for Children - Ten Little Turkeys - Turkey Kids Songs by The Learning Station