Autumn Ideas for your Service

It’s that time of the year again when all the leaves start to fall and a wonderful array of colours greets us all daily. In your service think about how you can include all the seasonal changes in your curriculum to encorporate autumn ideas for your service, through language, visuals and senses. Think about songs, books, games and rhymes that you can include in your everyday activities. Encorporate the beautiful changes in nature in both your indoor and outdoor environment, allowing the children to give suggestions on what Autumn means is to them.

Source: www.amyswandering.com

www.nurturestore.com have lovely ideas where you can find lots of Autumn ideas for your early years service and  create an Autumn Garden in the classroom. This would be a useful tool to use as part of your planning.

 

Creating Sticky Picture frames

To make the frame: bind the twigs together with thread or yarn. Then use drawing pins/pushpins to help the contact paper stay in place. Autumn gives us so many natural materials to use in art, and the Sticky Picture frames can display your pictures in the window, letting your designs catch the sunlight.

www.activityvillage.co.uk/autumn have lots of colourful book marks in all different seasons where the children can print off and keep for their books. This brings Autumn ideas into you Reading Area and something that the children can prepare and bring home with them as well.

Log on to www.littlebinsforlittlehands.com for some science activity ideas such as the one below:

 

Autumn Discovery Table Set Up

SUPPLIES:

• Sensory bin with brown rice as the filler
• Artificial and acrylic leaves from the craft store
• Pine cones, pine needles and acorns from the great outdoors
• Tweezers
• Divider Tray
• Books on leaves and Fall
• Magnifying glass and mini mirror for further exploration

How To:

Using smaller sensory bins, used a simple brown rice for a filler.

Add all the small items to the bin as well as a pair of tweezers for exploring.

Set out a divider tray for counting and sorting from the sensory bin. Seasonal books are perfect for adding a literacy component. A magnifying glass and small mirror provide plenty of opportunities to observe and examine the items.

A few suggestions for your Book Corner

 

Autumn –Ailie Busby

Creative Planning in the Eyes Autumn – Lucy Peet

In Autumn
by Winifred C. Marshall

They’re coming down in showers,
The leaves all gold and red;
They’re covering the little flowers,
And tucking them in bed
They’ve spread a fairy carpet
All up and down the street;
And when we skip along to school,
they rustle ‘neath our feet