When my oldest daughter was a toddler, we went on a nature walk to hunt down some amazing fall leaves on Thanksgiving day. (Remember, Thanksgiving is in October here in Canada). We found tons of brightly coloured leaves, but I didn't know what to do with them. I ended up drawing little happy faces with names under them with a sharpie, and then we set them out on the Thanksgiving table as place cards. And even though they weren't fancy, they were so adorable! Grandpa's leaf had a smiley face with a beard. Grandma's leaf had glasses and curly hair.
Print your Free October Worksheets for Preschool below! Build fine motor skills and boost creativity with tracing, matching, and more!
Add a spooky flair to your Halloween decor with a user-friendly printable haunted house pattern. Useful for customizing windows, doors or pumpkin carving, its a simple way to imbue your space with a haunted atmosphere..
On Monday, Alex Fitch from Panel Borders came to the studio to find out about the three of us who work at the Fleece Station. Gary Northfield had a meeting and couldn't be there, but Viviane Schwarz and I chatted happily to Alex about comics, picture books, gossip about Gary, and how we got…
This Halloween Witches Spell Printable is both a coloring page and a fun creative activity. We even give you the printable for free to download and use at home! Around here, Halloween is one of
Looking for fun Preschool Halloween Activities? This set of fun Hands-on Centers and Printables are the perfect addition to your Preschool Halloween Theme.
This puffy ghost craft is easy to make with just a few materials. These adorable cotton ball ghosts are the perfect non-spooky Halloween ghost craft for kids.
On this page, you will find 60 free jack-o-lantern and pumpkin coloring pages that are all free to download and print! Whether you are looking for a spooky Halloween craft activity, a Thanksgiving-themed art project, or even some simple pumpkin templates, you will find these all below!
This quick and EASY frankenworms experiment demonstrates baking soda and vinegar chemical reaction with fun halloween activities for October.
Halloween Painted Skeletons. This middle school art lesson is perfect for Halloween Art or Dio Los Muertos Art.
Color Cut Glue Halloween - practice coloring, scissor skills, pasting and sequencing with this free download from Your Therapy Source.
October preschool themes that are full of the holidays and weather of the season! Find lesson plans, learning activities, crafts, and more!
Sensory bags are a great way for little ones still in the mouthing stage to explore play materials. Today, I made a few Halloween s...
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Some October and Halloween tech backgrounds that the whole family will enjoy. I made some cute ones for my kids ipads and wanted to share!
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Aren't these goofy pumpkin faces the cutest? I've had this pinned on Pinterest for a couple weeks now. They come from artsy_T Flickr stream, and I guess she makes them with her Kindergarten class every year. We read
All About Adjectives is a NO PREP, printable pack designed to suit Kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2. It is important that students develop a strong knowledge base of adjectives early on to help improve their descriptive writing skills in later years.This pack contains 34 different adjective printab...
Columbus Day is observed the second Monday of October each year here in the United States of America, and that date is quickly upon us! I created this set of Christopher Columbus coloring pages 7 years ago for my then little girls to color. During most of our history read alouds in those younger days, my girls would sit and color while I read page after page. Those times are such wonderful memories for all of us! Because these pages were a bit dated, I updated them for the 2022 fall season with a few new graphics and an updated writing
earning how to draw a mummy head is really easy and fun. We'll show you how to draw, outline, and color your drawings with markers.
Our kids love to paint! While we love messy painting, there are times, especially when they were toddlers that I needed a safe, mess free painting activity for them. These Halloween Dot Painting worksheets are
Download these free planner printables for Halloween! Includes 6 pages in an adorable Halloween theme, plus they come in letter, Happy Planner, and A5 size!
October is here, meaning it's officially pumpkin season! I thought it would be fun to get into the spirit and make some Autumnal themed decorations, so I set to work with my needles and came up with three knitted pumpkin designs. I used less than 25g of leftover double knit yarn to make the three pumpkins, so they are a great thrifty make and they make lovely stand alone decorations on a mantle piece or as part of an Autumn wreath. Happy Autumn and happy making! A note on the pumpkin sizes... The small pumpkin measures approx 2.5cm high, 4cm circumference,36sts x 10 rows The medium rib pumpkin measures approx 3.5cm high, 7cm circumference, 36stitches x 15 rows The large stocking stitch pumpkin measures approx 4.5cm high, 9.5cm circumfernce, 36stitches x 20 rows I used 3.25mm needles and double knit yarn. I haven't specified a tension, so your pumpkins may come up slightly larger or smaller than mine, but they will still be very cute! The most important thing is that the stuffing can't be seen through the knit when you stuff the pumpkins- if you think it's looking a bit loose, go down a needle size 1) You will need Approx 25g double knitting yarn (I used Stylecraft Special DK in shade 1711 Spice), Small amount of green double knitting yarn (I used some from my stash), Small amount of toy stuffing, knitter's sewing up needle, Scissors, Pair of 3.25mm knitting needles 2) To make the large (I say large, but it's pretty small really!) stocking stitch pumpkin, cast on 36 stitches and work in stocking stitch (Row 1= knit, Row 2= purl) for 20 rows. Do not cast off 3) Allowing a 30cm tail (for sewing up), thread your working yarn onto the sewing up needle and thread through all of the stitches on the needle. You can remove the stitches from the needle if you prefer, but I find it easier to do this when the stitches are held on the needle 4) When all the stitches have been threaded, remove the stitches from the needle and gather up tightly, as if you were making a hat 5) Fasten off securely, keeping the needle and yarn still attached. With right side facing, sew down the side seam of the pumpkin using mattress stitch. Alternatively, if you prefer, you could turn the piece inside out and stitch the side seam with a running stitch 6) Once the side seam is sewn up, with the needle and yarn still attached, sew a running stitch all the way around the inside bottom edge of the pumpkin. Pull the yarn to draw together slightly 7) Use toy stuffing to firmly stuff the pumpkin 8) Once the pumpkin is completely stuffed and you're happy with its shape, draw the thread up tightly to gather the top and fasten off securely 9) Now to knit the stalk! The stalk is basically a knitted i-cord, which is most commonly knitted using double pointed needles (DPNS) . To knit the stalk in this way using DPNS, first cast on 5 stitches using the green DK yarn. Knit 1 row. Slide the work along to the other end of the needle and knit the next row. The working yarn will be on the left side of the work, but draw it across the back of the work and use it as normal. Knit 5 rows in this way, then cast off. However, if you don't have DPNS, it is possible to knit an i-cord on single pointed needles. Here's how... * Cast on 5 stitches * Knit 1 row * Slide the stitches from the right needle onto the left needle * The working yarn will be to the left side of the work. Simply draw the yarn to the right across the back of the work. Continue working in the way described above until the i-cord measures the desired length * Fasten off the top piece of yarn and weave in the end. Leave a long piece of yarn attached to the bottom of the i-cord, to use to sew onto the pumpkin The i-cord I used for the stalks on my pumpkins was 5 stitches wide by 5 rows long, but you could adjust the size accordingly, just keeping checking the length of the knitted stalk against the pumpkins as you knit 10) Sew the stalk onto the centre top of the pumpkin So that was the pattern for a basic pumpkin, but you could also try a couple of variation! * Create a "rustic pumpkin" by knitting the basic stocking stitch pumpkin to your desired size and then stuffing it. Instead of fastening off the yarn once you have drawn up the bottom of the pumkin securely, instead, thread the yarn tail onto a needle and draw the yarn up directly through thecentre of the pumpkin and pull the thread through the top. * Follow the lines of stitches and draw the yarn once again through the bottom of the pumpkin and out through the top, to create an authentic textured pumpkin effect! Fasten the yarn securely on the underside once you have achieved the desired effect. Sew on the stalk * To create a ribbed pumpkin, cast on 36 stitches in orange double knit and work 15 rows in 2x2 rib (Row 1= knit2, purl 2, Row 2= purl2, knit 2). Finish as for the stocking stitch pumpkin That's really all there is to it to make some simple but effective Autumnal decorations. If you knit some pumpkins, please share your photos in the comments! Enjoy!
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We are still recovering from sugar overload here, with round 2 of trick or treating still to go tomorrow. I’m beyond exhausted but so excited to share all of our preschool Halloween fun. Here were our plans for our Halloween theme: And here are the details for each activity: Pumpkin Life Cycle: Our first read […]
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These spooky mummy eyes are such a fun Halloween project! I saw a version of this project online and just had to recreate it. The oil pastels are a bit messy but this is a no-paint project that can be completed in one art session.
Take a spider web drawing into an awesome "spider web art project" using easy watercolor techniques, watercolor resist, and salt. Fun for preschoolers!
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Use these Spiders FREE Mini-Book and Writing Reflection. I made this reader so my kids could be as excited about learning about spiders as I get excited teaching about spiders.