Discover fall themes and lesson plans for your preschool classroom including my favorite November preschool themes, printables, and ideas.

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November is such a fun month in a preschool classroom! Find ideas for November preschool themes, including dinosaurs, harvest, Thanksgiving, and apples.

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Family preschool printables can significantly enhance your childs learning experience by providing hands-on materials that focus on the concept of family.

DIY crafts, activities, printables and games about being on a farm that your kids are going to love!

Awesome November Preschool Worksheets for Fall. Download and Print for easy additions to your lesson plans, and get a FREE worksheet just for looking.

Kids will be WOWED with this hands-on, fall science experiment where they will explore Why do Leaves Change Color for kids! Fun Leaf Activity!

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This printable All About Me poster is perfect for a preschool or kindergarten All About Me theme. This will be a keepsake for years to come too!

I really do love fall. I always have. The beautiful colors, the crisp air, pumpkin spiced everything... and perhaps most importantly, the end of MOSQUITOES! Mind you, this year wasn't too bad for the guys, but I remember a few years back the mosquitoes in our area were truly out of this world. Our neighbours

These all about me activities are perfect for your all about me theme in preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten. They are low-prep and lots of fun!

Looking for fun All About Me Activities for kids? Check out these 16 Hands-On All About me Learning Activities and Crafts for Preschool or Kindergarten.

We have corn fields all around us and we often talk about how corn grows. Now we can use this simple Corn Life

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Are you searching for a November calendar? You’re in the right place. We have a large collection of November calendars below, so you can find one that suits

Practice fine motor skills with this free fall craft! Looking for acorn crafts for preschool students? This acorn printable includes 5 pages of acorn activities

The goal of an “All About Me” theme is usually to help classmates get to know each other better, but when your only student is your own child, that puts a bit of a different spin on things. For our All About Me theme we focused on emotions, family, and learning more about ourselves. Here […]

John and I are waiting another year to bring back Ghostbusters for Halloween, since the new movie won't be out 'til November, and we were really banking on it to help this year's kids recognize the theme. (Seriously, the amount of kids/teens who had no idea who Stay Puft was crushed my soul.) So instead we decided on another 80s paranormal classic that absolutely none of the kids in our area will recognize: Beetlejuice. I already had Beetlejuice on the brain thanks to Universal's new haunted house and all the new Beetlejuice merch at Spirit: Halloween, but what really sealed the deal was this photo: HEART EYES. This gorgeous hand-painted Sandworm is/was in Cleveland, as featured in this 2016 news article. I fell in love with the arch especially, but the idea of storing something so large - even flat - was a deal breaker. So naturally, I wondered if we could do what we did with Stay Puft, and make the worm arch inflatable. "But, Jen," you're probably thinking, "they already make inflatable sandworms! Look! You can buy this one and be done with it! Gemmy 10' Inflatable Sand Worm You are, of course, technically correct. However. 1) That one costs hundreds of dollars, 2) you can't walk under it, and 3) where's the fun in buying something when you can spend dozens of hours and every ounce of frustration trying to make it yourself? :D We turned again to our trusty Dollar Tree tablecloths: These things are tissue thin, but sew together like a champ. We used 4 to make our first arch: one per side tube, then two to form the arch itself. For the bases we cut circles from pink foam insulation and taped the tablecloth tubes underneath them: This gives the arch a flat base that we can later stake into the ground. (You could also use Dollar Tree foam board if you don't have pink foam.) To inflate our arches I bought these USB fans from Amazon for $6 each. (The price keeps fluctuating between $6 and $10, I'm waiting for it to go back down to buy a few more as back-ups.) They're USB so you'll need a power adapter to plug them in, but happily Dollar Tree has those for $1. Score! John cut circles into thick foam squares which we duct-taped to the side of each arch to form a little docking station. The foam is stretchy enough that we can pressure-fit the fan in place. We've popped the fans in and out of these little airlocks half a dozen times already, they hold and work great. Arch #1 turned out.... a little big: Huh. Yep. A little big. Also the sides curved in too much, and my inner seams were unpleasantly wonky. So we tried again. And again. And again. Arch #3 (or was it 4?) was the perfect arch. A vision in architectural engineering. Trouble was, it looked TOO perfect: "The wonkiness looked more wormy," I explained helpfully to a stone-faced John. (He's the math wiz, so he handled the pattern making.) "Can you make it arch OUT?" And he did! Yasssss. Put two of these together and we can open ourselves a McDonald's. Oh right, at some point in all this we decided to start painting: Now, I'm going to stop you right here: painting a plastic tablecloth is a terrible idea. It's not at all durable. It barely sticks. It peels right off. DON'T PAINT PLASTIC TABLE CLOTHS. Don't do it! Ok? Got that? ::looks around:: Sure looks cool, though, right? Yard Test #1: Our neighbors enjoyed a complete episode of Benny Hill watching us try to keep all 4 inflatables upright on a breezy day. It was pandemonium, y'all, and to top it off, they didn't look wormy enough. We kept fiddling with the placement, but nothing looked right, and after an hour of sweating and swatting at mosquitoes, we packed it in to regroup. I bet you've noticed our Sandworm is missing something, right? Besides the stripes? Rest assured: there IS a head. Not only that, the head is a candy slide, because the thought of a Sandworm spitting out chocolate bars makes me happy. But how do you make an inflatable candy slide? Well, very carefully. Also helps immensely to have a John. My John, I mean. I'm not advocating a career change here. That is... uh... .... MOVING ON. John pulled his usual stunt of building something lightning fast before I could take process photos, so suddenly we had this: The mouth interior is made of craft foam, because we wanted something stiff that wouldn't pillow out... the way it's still doing here, hrrrm. So next John hot-glued a stiff wire around the mouth edges, and that did the trick! We're also working out the mechanics of the candy slide here. And by "mechanics" I mean we cut some holes and jammed a PVC pipe through 'em. ::jazz hands:: SCIENCE!! John made a stand from some 2X4s and pipe strapping to support the tube: And that's how the head looks deflated, if you were curious. The second mouth is made entirely of craft foam: So our worm head is really an inflatable/foam hybrid. Now brace yourselves, because this is where something completely unexpected happens: our sandworm starts to get - unintentionally! - rather adorable: Oops. My bad. OH COME ON. Could you... BE any cuter? (I'm testing out the head fin there to cover the candy tube.) I promise we didn't set out to make a pre-school version of the Beetlejuice sandworm, but here we are. We debated changing the eyes to make them look, I dunno, more evil? But then we decided to embrace the cute, since we like keeping our decor kid-friendly anyway. John re-did the wooden stand to give the worm a better angle, which we like much better: She still needs her second set of teeth, a curly tongue, and the fin re-installed, then we'll be painting the wooden stand black. (I also plan to zip-tie a plastic basket to the stand to hold the candy.) As for the arches, painting those blasted stripes took forEVER, but it also turned our house into an inflatable obstacle course, which was kinda fun: Another typical Friday night at the Yates' place. We tested all the kinds of paints: spray paint, craft paint, and house paint, and found a good quality latex house paint sticks best to the tablecloths. But let's be clear: even that doesn't stick. These things peel every time they wrinkle, so we're forced to store them hanging upright in the garage and pray they don't stick to each other in the heat: I expect we'll be doing a lot of paint touch-ups come Halloween day. Of course the "correct" method would be to sew black and white tablecloths together to form the stripes, but figuring out that much patterning would have been a huge pain. Besides, I like my wonky stripes; they add to the kookiness. And, most importantly, as I keep reminding myself over and over, these only have to last for one night. Come November 1st our lovely arch nemeses (see what I did there?) are going in the garbage, so I'm not going to stress too much if the paint peels or they look a bit off. And finally, here comes Yard Test #2, which I'm happy to report was a resounding success: Ta-daaa! That kinda looks like a sandworm, right? It helped when we placed them closer together. Then we added a support string across the tops of all the aches that's anchored to the roof, so they won't blow over. We left them up for an hour on a gusty afternoon, and though they do wiggle about a bit - which looks pretty fun, actually - they stayed up! Process shot while we were attaching the support string: We tied S hooks to the end of each string, which hook into a duct tape flap on the top of each arch. That way the strings are removable. On Halloween night we'll have the whole wormy pathway lit with green lights and fog. Now that the main attraction is done, John and I've turned to making more Beetlejuicy extras for the yard. We'll probably keep making things 'til we run out of time, so if you have suggestions, tell me in the comments! I won't tell you what we've already picked, since I'm curious how much we think alike, ha. Oh, and any guesses/suggestions for our costumes? (We haven't started them yet, but we have a funny idea for a couples' costume. Really hope it turns out.) Stay tuned! ***** P.S. If you missed it, be sure to check out our Ghostbusters Halloween from 2019, it was so much fun! I can't wait to bring back Stay Puft next year, and maybe add things from the new movie.

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Awesome November Preschool Worksheets for Fall. Download and Print for easy additions to your lesson plans, and get a FREE worksheet just for looking.

It's important for children to know who is working in their community. Get your little one excited with this free printable farmer craft template! This simple printable farmer craft worksheet gives your child the opportunity to practice their fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and coloring at home or in the classroom. The free printable farmer

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Apple Name Activity This editable apple name activity will help your preschool student with name recognition and scissor skills! Great decor!

This Free Printable Camping Shapes Activity is perfect for practicing shapes and matching with your preschoolers and kindergartners this summer.

We've rounded up 6 of our favorite nocturnal animal crafts here. Enjoy them for Halloween or anytime of the year!

Use these printable acorn themed worksheets for fall activities!

Pre-K & Preschool theme ideas for learning about forest animals, trees, and leaves. Find more Forest Activities for Pre-K What we learn about

Autumn is a wonderful season to create lasting memories such as jumping into a pile of leaves, picking and carving pumpkins, visiting an orchard, hosting a fall theme party and making this free printable scarecrow shape craft template. My kids love scrolling through Pinterest to find cool craft ideas made of recycled materials like paper

A Preschool Manners Theme that includes preschool lesson plans, activities and Interest Learning Center ideas for your Preschool Classroom!

My art department was approached by a local organization that provides assistance for local veterans and asked if we would be willing to make some Poppy themed artwork for their upcoming Veterans D…

Preschool students love bears and with these free bear-themed printable worksheets they can have fun while learning! Bear Theme Activities Worksheet 1 Counting BearsStudents work on their counting