Autumn posters and bulletin board displays

As autumn approaches, I like to think of the crafts and decorations we’ll make this year.

Here’s a poster I’ve been making for the last few years with my 3-year-olds, using potatoes cut in half and slightly carved to make the leaf shape. It’s a great way to learn some colours, and we make it listening to THIS AUTUMN SONG.

I also found this bulletin board display and I think it’s so fun! I might try it this year, maybe adding some writing.

How do you decorate your class or hallways for the season?

Simple autumn collage

Autumn is just around the corner! School is about to start here in Spain, and I’m looking for some inspiration for my English class.

Look at this art project! I just love it! Beauty + simplicity. You can ask kids to bring some autumn goodies to class, and then create their collage. I think this is a great opportunity to practise cooperation: a group of students can make a collage together.

Click on the picture to read the original post. It’s in Catalan but the photos are self-explanatory. The things you’ll need are few:

• autumn goods
• sheets of paper
• some cardboard to glue the paper on
• glue

Use this activity to practise autumn vocabulary and understanding simple instructions. Have fun!

AUTUMN SENSORY BINS

Last year I tried sensory play in my English class and it was a great success. You can read about it HERE. Also, since then I´ve been reading a lot about the importance of providing kids with sensory stimuli, so this year I planned a sensory play lesson for every season (autumn, winter, spring and summer) with my 3-year-olds.

I prepared two autumn-themed sensory bins. The first one was filled with corn and pasta as a base, and enriched with leaves, conkers, chestnuts, walnuts, acorns, pinecones and forest animals’ figurines. I also provided several containers so that the kids could fill them up and empty them as they liked.

The other bin required more preparation time. It was basically stawberry, lemon, orange and coke jelly I prepared at home the previous day. I used these flavours for their autumn colours, obviously.  I made two different-coloured layers in each container which aloud me to insert tiny objects between them and make it even more exciting for the kids to dig their hands in as they would find these little “treasures” (mostly buttons and pointy balls) inside.

We have 25 kids in each class so you have to plan and organize this kind of activities really well. My kids played in each bin in groups of five for about 10 minutes. While 2 groups were playing, the rest were doing something else with another teacher.

To learn about the importance of sensory play you can read THIS.

AUTUMN SONG

This is a simple song about autumn:

AUTUMN MURAL

Here’s a beautiful and super simple idea for your autumn mural: handprint autumn trees.

ORANGE PEEL DECOR

Here’s a beautiful idea for your autumn-themed classroom decoration. It will surely have a nice aroma about it too, for some time at least.

SIMPLE AUTUMN CRAFTS

Here are some very simple autum craft ideas I found: