Suggested Reading:
Picking Apples & Pumpkins (Read With Me)by Amy Hutchings
It's Pumpkin Time by Zoe Hall
I Am a Leaf by Jean Marzollo
Big Red Apple by Tony Johnston
Fall Tree
Use a brush to paint brown paint on a child's fingers, palm, wrist and arm. Lay their arm on a large piece of paper and it becomes a tree!! Then you can either use the hand to print fall colored leaves around the tree, or use just fingerprints. (this can also be done with green leaves and red fingerprints for an apple tree.
Marble paint with fall colors on a large peice of paper. When dry, cut out a large leaf shape to hang or cut it in strips and use if for a bulletin board/calendar border.
Blow up a large number of fall colored balloons. *Not so full that they will easily pop. To music, let them all dance around kicking, throwing, tossing the balloons around as leaves. Pretend their are falling from a tree. (be careful to pick up ALL popped pieces - they are extreme choking hazards)
Fingerpaint with shaving cream on your tables using yellow and red dots to make orange fall colors. (Great for cleaning the table while having fun too!)
Line up all sorts of pumpkins and gourds according to type, color, or size. Put them in categories. Weigh them. Use on of each and play "What's Missing?". Paint faces on them. Dress them up!! After the season, cut them to see what's really inside.
Fingerplay
When the leaves are on the ground (point to ground)
Instead of on the trees(point up high)
I like to make a great big pile of them(show a mound with hands)
Way up to my knees(touch knees)
I like to run and jump in them (run on place and jump once)
And kick them all around.(kick one leg and then the other)
I like the prickly feel of them (rub fingers in palms)
And the crickly, crackly sound! (clap three times)
Fingerplay
Leaves are floating softly down (flutter fingers over head downward)
They make a carpet on the ground(to the ground)
Then swish! The wind comes whirling by (sweep ground with hands)
And sends them dancing to the sky. (flutter fingers upward)
A Scarecrow Pattern
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