Effective Preschool Holiday Activities
Thanksgiving Activities
The preschool Thanksgiving activities will be creative and enjoyable, developing the children's fine motor -, eye-hand-co-ordination -, and visual observation skills at the same time.
Activity 1:Creating Vegetable Men: Materials Needed for the Activities: - Large Potatoes.
- Large Sweet Potatoes.
- Large Carrots.
- Other Vegetables for Decoration.
- Chopping Board.
- Blunt Knife.
- Cocktail Sticks.
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Procedure: - Wash the potatoes, sweet potatoes, and carrots, and dry them.
- Push the cocktail sticks into the potatoes, sweet potatoes, and carrots. Three sticks will help the vegetable man to stands.
- Chop the fruit and vegetables which are going to be used as decorations, with the blunt knife on the chopping board.
- Be creative and add sprouting broccoli for hair, a pointy peace of corn could serve as a nose, baby carrots could serve as arms, and so on.
Activity 2: Autumn Leave Prints: Creating Placemats or Cards.
Materials Needed for the Activity:
- Autumn Leaves.
- Poster Paint and Paint Brushes.
- Cardboard Paper.
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Procedure:
- The children should collect a wide variety of autumn leaves.
- Next, they should use brightly colored paint, painting the leaves different colors.
- While still wet the children can print the leaves around the sides on the cardboard paper, creating a printed placemat.
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