KidsbCool Preschool Crafts Songs Games Part 2

BULLENTIN BOARDS

Background Orange- Cut miniture pumpkins in half. Clean out and dry.
Use Chicken Trays filled thinly with paint to dip and stamp pumpkin halves on paper.

Background Yellow-Have kids close their hands and stick their thumb out. A turkey! Paint each finger a different color and put hand print on butcher paper. Let them draw little legs on their turkey. Put up on board.

SCIENCE TABLE

Put binoculars out. Real and toy size.

Add marbles and sorting trays.

Put a bowl of feathers on the table. Try to use different sizes.

Add a weight (tipping) scale and weigh rocks kids find.

Add ears of dried corn on the table. Indian Corn and Yellow.

Add miniture pumpkins and gourds. Discuss the difference in each. One edible, one not, one soft, one hard, etc...

Soak some corn kernels in a small amount of water.

Get a childs Microscope and study a hair off your head.

ART/FINE MOTOR

Brush glue lightly on a paper plate. Sprinkle with pumpkin spices,cloves and cinnamon for a smelly piece of art!
Paint with feathers!
Let the kids mix orange and green paint for brown.
Finger paint with yellow and red to make orange. Place a long sheet of paper over a design they made on the table. Press gently and hang to dry. We use one of those cheap little clothes lines that stand up with several lines on them. Keep a basket of clothes pins underneath and teach kids how to use them to hang their pictures.
Cut out Large, Medium and Small leaves from a cardboard box and let kids trace around them with Orange and Brown markers.
Use people colored markers and have kids draw themselves.
They have people colored paints also! This is a good time to stress the world is made of different colors and how boreing it would be if it were not.
Make necklaces out of macaroni. String on bright yarn and color with markers. Your 4 and 5 year olds can learn to tie knotts.

CIRCLE TIME

Read Best Thanksgiving Book.
I also like The First Thanksgiving.
My copy came with a tape. I play the tape while I turn the pages of the book. It's a nice change for the kids.

Get some Indian corn (any Walmarts) Talk about the colors and compare with yellow corn.

You can also make another class out of the Yellow Magic Box filled with different ways we see corn. Bring out corn on the cob, canned corn, canned kernel corn, canned creamstyled corn,corn chips!,corn tortillas, etc... Yes you will have to open the cans, discuss how they differ and heat up for a tasting party.

Let each child grind some corn with a medium sized rock. I use a riverbed rock.

Make butter using half-n-half. Get a small (clean) peanutbutter jar..plastic. Add half-n-half and shake! It will turn into butter!

Make Cornbread. Kids help with ingredients and eat with the butter you made!

Talk about foods you might have (showing pictures) including pizza and such since not all the kids will have turkey. Make the other foods special too.

Make a pumpkin pie. Let the kids pour, stir and make the dough.

Get 5 small plastic jars and fill with spices such as sage, cinnamon, cloves...etc...
Discuss the smells and put on the science table.

Make pumpkin bread.

Make orange jello jigglers. Cut out in circles, squares ect...

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