* memory game/matching game- fall clothing

* sorting clothing cards with seasons.

* you can do a glyph…making a child with fall clothing.

* Dress a paper child, as a small group. Each child has a body mat and the selection of clothes. On a sheet, glue on one of each of the clothing items and put a number next to it. Have each child roll a die. They look at the chart and find out what piece of clothing goes with their number and glues that on first. They can end by adding facial feature.

* In the fall we begin to wear socks more often because our feet get cold. You can order seven silly socks (alliteration). Make the silly socks with patterns and then you have another activity…describing the patterns.

* you can pattern with fall clothing… long sleeve shirt, socks, long sleeve shirt, socks.

* you can hang up fall clothing on a clothesline. That’s great fine motor. You can incoporate patterns there as well. Or you can put letters on the clothespins and they hang up the clothing items with the corresponding beginning letter. For example, hanging up long socks with clothespins labeled with the letter s.

* You can have picutre/word cards and magnetic letters and the children can spell the words.

* you can have laundry baskets labeled with numbers and the child places the corresponding number of clothing items in each basket.

* we need to begin wearing jackets in the Fall, you can sequence jackets by size, or sort them by color/design, or match jackets to jeans using numbers/number dots; uppercase/lower case letters, etc.

* Weighing Socks (Discorvery/Science): Fill socks with different materials such as dry rice, beans, marbles, cotton balls, or shredded paper. Tie a knot in the opening of each sock. Children pick up and feel the weight of each sock. They determine which socks weigh the same, which socks are heavier, and which socks are lighter. Show the children how to use the balance scale to determine which of two socks is heavier or lighter.

* Share ‘n’ Tell: Have the students wear or bring in their favorite (clean) pair of socks. (or other items of fall related clothing)

* Have a set of sweaters/long sleeve shirts and write a numeral, 0-10, on each one. Provide buttons. They place the corresponding number of buttons onto the sweater. You can do it as a small group and make a display…they can cut out the basic long sleeve shirt/sweater shape and draw a card/number manipulative and glue that number of buttons onto their shirt. Then you can work together to order them correctly onto a wall.

* You could bring in a variety of clothes and use magnify glasses and sense of touch to explore the different materials. If you use different seasonal clothes, you can sort them and come to the conclusion that fall/winter clothing are a lot heavier then spring/summer clothing. You can ponder over that… writing down the children’s explanation. You can make rubbings of the materials to see the texture.

Good luck!