This weekend, I brought my black purse down from the attic and purposefully dumped the contents of my colorful striped handbag into it. Fall is here! Along with the purse came a few fall clothing items. I’ve got to stop putting clothing in the attic—there must be something in attic air that makes corduroy shrink! 🙂
Shrunken clothing aside, I love fall. It has a way of igniting my senses. Which makes me wonder, how do you incorporate sensory activities into your fall lesson plans? I’d love to learn about your just-for-fall sensory table activities, your
just-for-fall sensory writing activities, and so on. Please share!
Nibbling on lettuce,
Diane
We live In a small town and every fall we go on a “leaf hunt”. After reading the book “Going on a leaf hunt” we walk around town finding all colors and shapes of leaves. After arriving back at school I put them in an old home made leaf press I received from my Great Aunt. We then write a story about what we did on the walk. After a few days in the leaf press we glue the leaves to a poster board and write the story on it. We hang the poster in our room and admire it all winter long! I also show the children how to press leaves in a book and they get to take some of the found leaves home with them to press.
I love to take a nature walk and gather leaves for the sensory table, add in pinecones and acorns and its a huge hit.
When I worked at schools that did not have alot of trees I gave each child a bag to take home and gather things for the table as homework.
My favorite fall activity inside is to pounded golf tees into pumpkins and squash. Its a great hand eye activity. The kids love it.
I also like to let the kids paint with Indian corn, and pinecones.
Fall is so much fun.
We shuck corn put into our sensory box with tools to measure pour. A few farmers and tractors… Use the cobs to paint with. Later we add Indian corn. This year I want to get popping ears for micro wave.