Fall and education tend to go hand in hand around here. Educational Fall crafts and learning filled activities are what is filling my head these days.

It’s a riveting place in there (my head), full of apple crafts, pumpkin letter learning games, and fall leaf math activities. Paaaarrrr-tay!!

I do tend to think seasonally when I am organizing my year. In fact, that is how I organized my curriculum for 4-6 year olds as well! 

That curriculum is set up with 18 unit studies (each unit study spanning 2 weeks, making the curriculum a complete 36 school weeks long). We have 6 unit studies for each season: Fall, Winter, and Spring and then the whole curriculum is complete leaving summer for natural learning and, of course, Summer Camp at Home! 

Today I thought I would share with you 5 of the learning activities found in the Fall sessions of that 4-6 year old curriculum. I chose a few of the crafts and activities found within the unit studies Apples, Leaves, and Pumpkins – the most Fall-ish unit studies of all.

Be sure to grab your complete curriculum for 4-6 year olds, which is completed in as little as 3 hours per week, right here: Kindergarten at Home

5 Fall Crafts and Activities right from Kindergarten at Home:

Why do leaves change colour?

Have you ever wondered why those beautiful Autumn leaves appear? What happens to the green, and why does red, yellow, and orange appear out of nowhere? Well, get ready to solve that mystery once and for all! For this science experiment, you only need some rubbing alcohol and a coffee filter. This blog post shares with you exactly what is going on.

Leaf Letters

We start our curriculum by focusing on children’s name letters. These letters hold special meaning to us! After this, we progress through the letters in a state of the art way which allows reading to flow like magic. You can read all about the order for teaching letters, which is found in this curriculum right here: Order for Teaching Letters. For this literacy activity, children use the letter formation guide to print their name letters on leaves. We then use those leaf letters for all sorts of games! Hide them around a room and have children find them and put them in the correct order, or go on a scavenger hunt to find an item that starts with each letter of your name!

Sticky Names

A second name activity we dive into is finding nature items, such as sticks, to spell out your child’s name. By focusing on each line and each curve of a letter, children really get to know those letters and are less likely to have trouble down the road with letter reversals. Begin this activity by gathering up as many straight sticks and curvy twigs as you can find! Children new to spelling their name can put their sticks over top of their name written in chalk, while children more familiar with their name letters can do this all on their own.

Making 10 with Pumpkin Seeds

In this curriculum, we focus the first half of lessons on numbers up to 10. This may seem surprising, but there is actually a TON of research that supports the importance of learning and fully comprehending these numbers before moving on to bigger ones. This Making 10 activity is full of number learning. Children begin to see how numbers fit together and cooperate with number pairs, which will make future multiplication, division, and fractions a dream! Never underestimate the importance of these first 6 years!!!

Fine Motor Pumpkins

A lot of work for children under 6 should be focused on strengthening those little hand muscles, fine motor skills, and supporting creativity and imagination!

This pumpkin poking activity is perfect for Fall. Children can draw a silly face on a pumpkin and then use nails to create holes along those lines.

Some children might wish to hammer the nail into the pumpkin, while others might like to simply push the nail through. Pull that nail out and continue tracing your lines with holes. Pop a candle in after to watch the light glow through those holes!

And there you have them! Five of the learning activities found within my curriculum for 4-6 year olds.

This curriculum has been carefully created to teach all Kindergarten skills in a step-by-step and play-based way. The program is designed to be 1 hour long for only 3 days per week, giving children lots of opportunities to practice the skills they are learning all on their own. Please check it out right here:

Thank you so much for reading!

xo
Sarah