Valentine's Day Activities

 MAKE (Arts and Crafts)

  • Valentine Cards
  • Valentine Bags
  • Free Art (Have art materials accessible to children such as a coloring page, a stencil, an easel, markers, stamps, colored pencils, crayons, play-dough, and tissue paper/construction paper/fabric squares for children to work with if they'd like as well)
EXPLORE (Sensory Bins)
  • Rose Water Valentine’s Soup 
  • Frozen Hearts 
  • Sponge Hearts
  • Valentines Sensory (different textures of hearts - buttons, foam, paper, fabric, etc.)
  • Pink Shaving Cream and Hearts
  • Pink Water (color bath tablets)
  • Shredded Pink Paper

CREATE (Play Doh - Mats, Cookie Cutters, Invitations to Play)

  • Heart

PLAY (Inside and Outside Games/Activities)
  • Puzzles/Board Games
  • Block Center/Building Ideas
  • Dramatic Play
  • Quiet Activities
  • File Folder Activities/Worksheets
  • Active Games/Outside Play Activities
READ (Books for the Seasonal Book Basket or Shelf)

SING (Songs/Poems)

EAT (Snacks)
  • Heart Cookies
  • Monthly Holiday Snacks (Sandwiches, Waffles, Pancakes, French Toast, Sugar Cookies, Brownies, Candy, Cake Pops, Donuts, Muffins, Popsicles, Cheese and Lunch Meat)
VISIT  (Visitor/Field Trip Ideas)
  • Field Trips
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Thanksgiving Activities

 MAKE (Arts and Crafts)

  • Handprint Turkeys
  • Paper Plate Turkey with Feathers
  • Indian and Pilgrim Hats
  • Turkey with Feathers
  • Turkey with Thankful Feathers
  • Tissue Paper Turkey
  • Scarecrows
  • Fall Trees
  • How to Cook a Turkey
  • Leaf Wreath
  • Leaf Sun Catchers
  • Fall Leaf Prints
  • Leaf Critters
  • Paper-Plate Scarecrow
  • Free Art (Have art materials accessible to children such as a coloring page, a stencil, an easel, markers, stamps, colored pencils, crayons, play-dough, and tissue paper/construction paper/fabric squares for children to work with if they'd like as well)
EXPLORE (Sensory Bins)

  • Fall Leaves (Real or Plastic)
  • Acorns or Nuts
  • Pinecones
  • Small Pumpkins and Gourds
  • Turkey feathers
  • Thanksgiving Dinner
  • Fall Soup
  • Farm
  • Turkey
  • Scarecrows
  • Fall Button Tree
  • Pumpkin Patch with Hay
  • Pilgrims and Indians
  • Peeling Corn Husks

CREATE (Play Doh - Mats, Cookie Cutters, Invitations to Play)
  • Turkey
  • Scarecrow
  • Fall
PLAY (Inside and Outside Games/Activities)
  • Puzzles/Board Games
  • Block Center/Building Ideas
  • Dramatic Play
  • Quiet Activities
  • File Folder Activities/Worksheets
  • Active Games/Outside Play Activities
READ (Books for the Seasonal Book Basket or Shelf)
  • Over the River
  • The First Thanksgiving
  • Little House Books
  • How to Catch a Turkey
  • The Thanksgiving Story
  • The First Thanksgiving
  • A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
  • In November
  • Leaf Man
  • Pumpkin Soup
  • Thankful
  • Biscuit is Thankful
  • The Very First Americans
  • Bear Says Thanks

SING (Songs/Poems)
  • Over the River 
EAT (Snacks)
  • Pumpkin Pie
  • Pecan Pie
  • Monthly Holiday Snacks (Sandwiches, Waffles, Pancakes, French Toast, Sugar Cookies, Brownies, Candy, Cake Pops, Donuts, Muffins, Popsicles, Cheese and Lunch Meat)
VISIT  (Visitor/Field Trip Ideas)
  • Field Trips
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Halloween Activities

 MAKE (Arts and Crafts)

  • Jack-O-Lantern Faces
  • Spiders with Folded Legs
  • Bats
  • Skeletons
  • Folded Paper Pumpkin
  • Free Art (Have art materials accessible to children such as a coloring page, a stencil, an easel, markers, stamps, colored pencils, crayons, play-dough, and tissue paper/construction paper/fabric squares for children to work with if they'd like as well)
EXPLORE (Sensory Bins)
  • Pumpkin Patch
  • Spiderwebs
  • Skeletons
  • Witch Potion
  • Jack-O-Lanterns
CREATE (Play Doh - Mats, Cookie Cutters, Invitations to Play)
  • Jack-O-Lantern
  • Spider
  • Skeleton
  • Monsters
PLAY (Inside and Outside Games/Activities)
  • Puzzles/Board Games
  • Block Center/Building Ideas
  • Dramatic Play
  • Quiet Activities
  • File Folder Activities/Worksheets
  • Active Games/Outside Play Activities
READ (Books for the Seasonal Book Basket or Shelf)

  • The Monster at the End of This Book
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas
  • I Spy Spooky Night
  • The Gruffalo
  • Room on the Broom
  • Little Blue Truck’s Halloween
  • How to Catch a Monster
  • The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
  • Go Away Green Monster
  • Spookie Pookie
  • Little Owl’s Night
  • There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat
  • The Bernstein’s Bears Prize Pumpkin
  • Boo! Baa La La La!
  • Ten Timid Ghosts
  • You’re my little Pumpkin Pie
  • Pete the Cat Trick or Treat
  • The Scarecrow
  • The Big Pumpkin
  • The Legend of Spookly the Square Pumpkin
  • Pumpkin Jack
  • Duck and Goose Find a Pumpkin
  • The Itsy Bitsy Pumpkin
  • It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
  • The Scarecrow’s Hat
  • Round Robin
  • Peek-a Who?
  • Five Little Pumpkins

SING (Songs/Poems)
  • H-A-L-L-O-W-E-E-N
EAT (Snacks)
  • Pumpkin Muffins
  • Monthly Holiday Snacks (Sandwiches, Waffles, Pancakes, French Toast, Sugar Cookies, Brownies, Candy, Cake Pops, Donuts, Muffins, Popsicles, Cheese and Lunch Meat)
VISIT  (Visitor/Field Trip Ideas)
  • Field Trips
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Monthly Themes

Monthly Theme Ideas

  • January (Geography and Cultures of the World, Diversity & Inclusion)
  • February (Valentine’s Day/Emotions, Empathy, & Kindness, Presidents)
  • March (St. Patrick’s Day/Rainbows & Colors, Music)
  • April (Spring/Easter, Earth Day/Earth & Environment - Rocks, Space)
  • May (Mother’s Day/Flowers & Growing Things, Life Cycles - Caterpillars, Amphibians, Birds)
  • June (Father’s Day/Sports, Summer/Travel & Transportation)
  • July (Oceans, Fourth of July/Patriotic)
  • August (Bugs, Reptiles)
  • September (Farms, Pets)
  • October (Fall/Halloween - Pumpkins, Spiders, Bats, Body - Skeleton, Nutrition, Health & Safety)
  • November (Thanksgiving/Leaves, Families)
  • December  (Winter/Christmas, Winter Animals)


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Sensory Bins

Fillers

  • Cereal 

  • Bubbles
  • Colored Water (bath color tablets)
  • Kinetic Sand
  • Water Beads
  • Beans
  • Small Rocks
  • Dirt
  • Dry Pasta
  • Flour
  • Pom Poms
  • Tissue Paper
  • Styrofoam 
  • Snow
  • Silly String
  • Sticks/Grass
  • Sponges
  • Foam Shapes
  • Seashells
  • Ribbons
  • Fabric Scraps
  • Magic Noodles
  • Streamers
  • Containers and Lids
  • Shaving Cream (styrofoam, cardboard plastic wrap, newspaper)
  • Jello
  • Beads
  • Straws and Funnels 
  • Shredded Paper
  • Spaghetti (cooked or uncooked)
  • Yarn (farm animals, yarn (yellow, blue, brown tan, green, rocks) 
  • Picnic (cereal)
  • Birthday (shaving cream, cupcake tin, candles, sponges, sequins, ribbon)
  • Cloud Dough
  • Ice
  • Green Pasta
  • Paper Zoo 
  • Water and Foam Pieces 
  • Cotton Balls 
  • Contact Paper (sticky wall - flowers, steams leaves)
  • Polenta
  • Birdseed
  • Rice
  • Coffee Beans
Themes 

  • Construction (pasta, dirt and rocks, polenta)
  • Emergency Vehicles
  • Race Cars (cloud dough, car wash)
  • Monster Trucks (oats)
  • Trains
  • Boats
  • Robots
  • Dinosaurs (kinetic sand, marble rocks)
  • Space
  • Animals 
  • Reptiles
  • Dogs
  • Blocks (wooden, plastic, or foam)
  • Ice-cream
  • Tools
  • Horses
  • Farm (grass, rocks, sticks)
  • Tea Party (soap and bubble bath)
  • Alphabet (puzzle hunt)
  • Numbers 
  • Shapes
  • Family (Little People or Play mobile)
  • Musical Instruments
  • Magnets (cookie sheet) 
  • Fishing
  • Float or Sink
  • Flowers and Vases (vases and real or fake flowers), (play dough and pots to stick them in), (flower soup - flowers, strainer, bowls, spoons)
  • Pouring/Spooning
  • Prepare a Sandwich/Taco/Pizza
  • Contact Paper (construction paper shapes)
  • Beach (seashells, plastic sea creatures, shovels, buckets)
  • Soap and Water (plastic cups)
  • Ocean Exploration (blue jello with small ocean animals inside for kids to dig through to uncover)
  • World Map
  • Ducks (muddy duck wash)
  • Cupcake (flour cupcake factory)
  • Bugs (cloud dough) (jello bug rescue)
  • Dish Wash 
  • Cloud Tower Building 
  • Garden 
  • Colors (mixing colors)
  • Blocks (use colored ice to build towers)




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Christmas Activities

MAKE (Arts and Crafts)
EXPLORE (Sensory Bins)
  • Christmas Nativity 
  • Christmas Village 
  • Snowman 
  • Christmas Tree Branches 
  • Ornaments in Water 
  • Gifts 
  • Bows 
  • Wrapping Paper/Scissors 
  • Candy Canes 
  • Pom Poms 
  • Christmas Wreaths 
  • Christmas Lights  
  • Paint the Snow or Ice 
CREATE (Play Doh - Mats, Cookie Cutters, Invitations to Play)
  • Snowman
  • Gingerbread Man
  • Snowflake
  • Reindeer
  • Wreath
  • Santa
PLAY (Inside and Outside Games/Activities)
  • Puzzles/Board Games
  • Block Center/Building Ideas
  • Dramatic Play
  • Quiet Activities
  • File Folder Activities/Worksheets
  • Active Games/Outside Play Activities
READ (Books for the Seasonal Book Basket or Shelf)

SING (Songs/Poems)
  • Jingle Bells
  • Deck the Halls
  • Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
  • Let it Snow
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
  • Jingle Bell Rock
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas
  • The Twelve Days of Christmas
  • Silent Night
  • Here Comes Santa Clause
  • The Little Drummer Boy
  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
  • Away In a Manger
  • O Little Town of Bethlehem
  • Up on the Housetop
  • Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
  • Hark! The Harold Angels Sing
  • O Come All Ye Faithful
  • Joy to the World

EAT (Snacks)
  • Apple Pie
  • Monkey Bread
  • Gingerbread Men
  • Gingerbread Houses
  • Monthly Holiday Snacks (Sandwiches, Waffles, Pancakes, French Toast, Sugar Cookies, Brownies, Candy, Cake Pops, Donuts, Muffins, Popsicles, Cheese and Lunch Meat)
VISIT  (Visitor/Field Trip Ideas)
  • Field Trips


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