Fall worksheets for preschool that are perfect for your fall theme- scissor skills, fine motor, counting, mazes, and more. Free printable PDF
I'm back!! I have been so busy this year, I cannot believe its already October and I have not updated since MAY!!! We had an amazing summer, it just flew by so fast! This is our newest family member, "Bunbun" that we got this summer. He's the cutest bunny alive! So many things have changed and I am now teaching at a new campus. We are doing SO many fun things in the art room so I will continue to post for a few days until I catch up!! Today for my first super long post, I wanted to write about some of the fun Fall projects we have going on! Students have been learning about pumpkins and creating some beautiful Fall pumpkin patches and scarecrows! We even started some cool glow in the dark spider webs today! Third grade made these watercolor pumpkins that turned out beautifully! They also used glow in the dark paint for the stars and moon! That had to draw 3-4 overlapping pumpkins and we gave them value and made them look shiney! Fourth grade made these "Pumpkin Piles" They used chalk pastels, and glow in the dark paint for the stars Kindergarten and first grade made these awesome scarecrows! They all turned out so cute and different! We added straw for the hair and buttons. First we talked about how to make the face happy, sad, mad etc. They started with black crayons doing a draw along, Then they used oil pastels to color the shirt, corn, crow, eyes, nose, and grass lines. Then they painted the sky, grass, and the hat with watercolors Kindergarten and First grade made these squirrels last week. We did a draw-along first, and then they colored the pumpkin and squirrel with oil pastels. Next they glued a white acorn on him and painted it gold. They painted the tail gold too. I made little arms that they glued on and added some fur. The kids added details that reflected themselves. I love how this student added a chef's hat because he likes to cook!! Bunbun is ready for HAlloween, are you?
These scarecrow silhouette paintings are perfect for the fall and Halloween. You can make them as haunting or cute as you want.
4th Grade Warm or Cool Birch Trees Fourth grade has been working hard on their mixed media birch trees, for the past couple of weeks. Here's how we created ours.... First, they had to choose if they were going to do WARM colors (Red, Orange, & Yellow) or if they were going to use COOL colors (blue, purple, and green). Then, they painted their backgrounds with Prang tempera cakes, on 12x18 pieces of 90lb paper. After they finished painting, they could start on their birch trees. we used half of a 12x18 sheet, drew them out with rulers, and traced the bark lines with Sharpie markers. The next class, we finished our trees, cut them out and glued them on! Here's a few working on their birch tree paintings.
The Fall Preschool Unit is packed full of hands on math & literacy activities as well as no prep worksheets for easy lesson planning.
The Fall Preschool Unit is packed full of hands on math & literacy activities as well as no prep worksheets for easy lesson planning.
ANNOUNCEMENT! I will be leading a web-based class from August 16-20 covering the first six weeks of drawing: showing you how to draw through the techniques CC highlights, how to break down art to simple processes, how to try different techniques for those who get frustrated. The cost is $25 for four 1-hour classes. While […]
This stunning Fall Leaf Batik is fun for kids of all ages to create! Come see how we made them in our children's art studio in Charlotte, NC.
I have updated this link with a freebie! Click here to get there. "No, David" is one of our favorite books to begin the year or use anytime we need a little review of what our classroom expectations are. One corner of our classroom is devoted to David and our school rules. We read the book several times then the students chose one rule they thought was especially important to them and they typed their rule during Computer Lab time. Then each student created a picture of David and they turned out AMAZING! We had so much fun with David this year that we decided to use iMovie to create a short video of David following the rules and showed the video to the entire school. How FUN! If you would like to view the video you can see it on my classroom webpage. The poster shown above was printed at Staples. I used PhotoShop to edit the title to fit our lesson and class.
fingerplays fall - Read more about scarecrow, squirrel, swish, squirrels, tumble and crows.
See how to make a Fall leaf suncatcher! We make this easy to make with free fall leaf templates. Follow this tutorial for any tissue paper suncatcher craft.
