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Fun and Easy Halloween Activities for Centers in Preschool and Kindergarten

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Halloween is such a magical time for young children, filled  with pumpkins, spooky decorations, and fun costumes. It’s also a perfect opportunity to introduce hands-on activities that engage kids’ imaginations, foster creativity, and support early learning. Here’s a couple of  easy Halloween activities and worksheet ideas for preschoolers and kindergartners to enjoy in the classroom or at home!

  1. PUMPKIN COLOR SORTING

A classic hands-on activity that helps with color recognition, sorting, and fine motor skills!

Materials Needed:

•Paper cut-out pumpkins in different colors (or small pumpkin toys)

•Small containers or bowls

How to Play:

•Have the children sort the pumpkins by color.

•Ask them to name the colors out loud as they sort them (e.g., “This one is orange!”).

You can increase the challenge by introducing a “mystery color” where kids have to find pumpkins that match a color you describe, like “Find the pumpkin that’s as yellow as the sun!”

Why It’s Great:

•This activity helps kids develop color recognition and basic sorting skills.

•It’s also a good exercise for hand-eye coordination.

2. BUILD A SCARY PUMPKIN FACE

Hands on activity that will help with shape recognition, fine motor skills, follow directions and shape orientation!

Materials needed:

•Cut out large pumpkins in different colors

•Prepare Small shapes (squares, circles, triangles, stars) card or paper.

•Bowls to hold the different shapes

•Paste/glue stick

How to play:

•Have children choose the color pumpkin they want to design.

•Let them choose the visual direction cue cards of what face they want to make.

•Offer the cut out shapes for them to paste to their pumpkin face following the direction cue card.

Why its great! This activity is great for shape recognition and manipulation, following instructions and fine motor skills.

3. CREEPY HALLOWEEN WORKSHEETS

Dressing up, what you want to wear, List your favourite Halloween games, List your favourite Halloween treats, Write a creepy story sheet, Color coded coloring sheet, Count and write the number of Halloween items they see.

Why they’re great!

fine motor skills, color recognition, writing skills, counting and number recognition

These Halloween activities and worksheets are easy, fun, and educational for preschool and kindergarten children. They provide opportunities for creativity, fine motor development, and early learning in a way that makes the holiday extra special. 

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Special Education | Winter Fun Activities for Centers and workstations.

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We’ve been trying out our Christmas themed activities this week and have had lots of fun learning!

My little learners love hands on activities and was excited to try this one out on Monday!

They loved pulling up carrots to find the shape and feeding the reindeer. Seeing them so engaged and until all the carrots were pulled was well worth the effort of putting this resource together!

On Tuesday we tried some Christmassy number corresponding tasks! I thought I’d incorporated some pegs into this activity to practice our Fine Motor skills at the same time.

Pegs made the activity more interesting to engage my speedy students longer!

Wednesday we carried on the counting theme with these Snowman building cards, using cotton wool as pretend snow!

and a game of matching Santa to his black and white photo on Thursday!

Friday we had some fun and practiced our scissor skills on some festive shapes.

I’m pleased to say we’ve had a productive week of Christmas fun!

Reindeer Feeding Activity

Number Correspondence to 10

Christmas crafts and Activities

Fun Activities and Resources for Back to School

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Its that time of year again – the panic of building back to school lessons, fresh new resources and a shiny clean classroom! But a new class list of children in Special Education can mean new challenges and worries, so be prepared with hands on resources, learn as much as you can about each student and relax into teaching!

This interactive Daily Binder is full of visual strategies to help your students plan their day ahead and keep them focused throughout. Once laminated or placed in a pocket folder a dry wipe marker can be used for students to jot down their name, grade and class, followed by their teachers name, their friends name, things they like and things they don’t. There are pages with the days of the week for your student to practice and tick off what day it is and same for seasons. Handy pages for students to write out their daily schedule and tick off as they go though it. Working for cards and reward choice. What to remember when you feel angry, “first and then” when they get frustrated and what I need visuals for them to choose from.

About Me – Back to school activity sheets especially designed for new class members to fill in and share information about themselves.

Adapted books will enable your students to practice sequencing, curriculum tasks, stories and everyday activities. Instead of laminating and binding use them as cut and paste activities!

The ability to organise, sequence and prioritise helps us to plan daily activities and manage our time effectively. however, a lot of preschool/Special Education children may find communicating, organising, sequencing and prioritising difficult. This visual binder can support students with everyday basic needs.

FREE Back to School Download Activity sheet

Engaging Students: A Guide to Creating Interactive Adapted Books for kids

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“Are you struggling to keep your special education students engaged in pre-reading material? Look no further! In this post, we will guide you through creating interactive adapted books that will effortlessly engage your students and make reading fun and exciting.”

Not only will these adapted books provide a fun and interactive pre-reading experience for your students, but they will also meet the specific needs and abilities of each individual student. By incorporating visual aids, manipulatives, and other interactive elements, these books will enhance comprehension and build a love for learning. Follow along as we break down the steps to creating your own adapted books.

Incorporating Interactive Elements for Enhanced Learning

An adapted book can be simplified for young learners and kids in Special Education to access. The main objectives of these type of adapted books is to comment on what they see on the page, identify the visual to answer the “I can see” question, learn story vocabulary and answer “who”questions about the animal characters in the story.

  • So attaching detachable visuals will enable the learner to answer questions.
  • Having a selection of visuals to choose from will establish a correspondence check for accuracy.
  • Using a comprehensive accompanied book with visuals will check understanding.
  • Vocabulary check cards can help with naming the corresponding characters, items or animals.
  • The Benefits of these Interactive Adapted Books
  1. Using interactive resources can help your young learners and non verbal students access popular stories and their characters, practice story sequencing skills, increasing motivation and interest, promote independence, and enhancing comprehension.
  2. Learners are able to practice receptive and expressive language skills, Vocabulary, sequencing and Math and Literacy.