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5 Fab Non Fiction Autumn, Fall, Halloween Books for Kids
These 5 books for younger children about Autumn/Fall and Halloween are great for teaching children about the season and associated festivals in a simple and informative manner with some great photos and facts! Our Top 5 Non Fiction Books about Autumn and Halloween Halloween – National Geographic Kids- Laura Marsh: This is a fantastic Level 1 book jam packed with lots of colour photos and fun facts about Halloween, with a joke or two thrown in too! Its aimed at kids who are just beginning to read on their own but we love to read it together at bedtime as my children are not yet reading indepently. The book also…
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2 Quick and Easy Hedgehog Art Projects – Autumn / Fall Art for Kids
2 Quick and Easy Hedgehog Art Projects for Kids. Oodles (almost 3yo) and I had alot of fun with these two little paint projects this morning.Since we made our hedgehog collages last week she has been eager to do some more hedgehog activities and these are what we came up with. 1. Sponge Painting Hedgehogs What we used: paint pot scrub sponges (with rough side and sponge side) paper paint brushes What we did: Using the sponges we painted a mound shape To make the spikes we used the rough side of the sponge and dragged it up through the paint We added a face and snout with our brushes…
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Clay Autumn Leaves – Fall Crafts for Kids
Clay Autumn Leaves – a great, simple Fall craft for all ages. It’s amazing what you can make with a little clay, glue and glitter! Disclosure: I received the clay used in this activity from ArtMaterialsCo.com as a free sample in return for a fair and honest review. All thoughts are my own. I often get my inspiration for our craft and art activities from the materials themselves and when this pack of clay arrived in the post the beautiful rich colour of it immediately made me think of all the lovely autumn activities we had been doing over the past few weeks. We have spent a lot of time…
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Cotton Wool Autumn Trees – Fall Art Activities for Kids
Another quick and easy Autumn/Fall art activity for kids of all ages. Continuing our theme of autumn arts and crafts, Oodles (2.5 y.o) had lots of fun with this collage activity. What we used: blue, green and brown paper cotton wool balls PVA non toxic glue paint – autumn colours glitter What we did: tear the green paper to create hills and stick to the lower half of the blue sheet. next tear the brown paper into strips to create a tree trunk and stick onto the green and blue paper. dip the cotton balls into the glue and stick all over the top of the tree trunk dab paint…
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Autumn Tree Collages – Fall Art Activities for Kids
This is a very simple yet lovely autumn collage activity, suitable for all ages and both Doodles(5) and Oodles (2.5) managed this with ease. What we used: coloured paper felt autumn leaves and scraps of felt PVA non toxic glue cotton wool What we did: I encouraged the children to tear a piece of green paper to create the grass or hill for the foreground of their picture. They then ripped brown paper (we used brown sugar paper for it’s texture) into strips to make the tree trunks Using the PVA glue they arranged the paper on the blue sheet to create their grass and tree and then added the…
