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by Rachel Paxton

This week’s library story time was all about pies. My boys heard the story I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie and for their activity they made pretend pumpkin pies. This activity is fun because your child gets to sprinkle real spices on his “pie”, so it smells like a real pie.

For this activity you will need a small paper plate, glue, pumpkin pie spices (sugar, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg), and a cut-out of a pie.

Have your child glue the pie to the paper plate. Next place glue on top of the pie. You can use any kind of glue, but glue sticks work fine for this project. Next have your child sprinkle the pumpkin pie spices on top of the glue. That’s it! A quick, fun activity to do when reading books about pies.

Books about pies and Thanksgiving: I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson, 10 Fat Turkeys by Tony Johnston, The Turkey Ball by David Steinberg

by Rachel Paxton

Fall is a fun time to learn about squirrels and nuts. Today my boys attended a class at our children’s museum called “All About Nuts”.

First the teacher made sure no one had any nut allergies (very important!). Next she showed the children a variety of nuts and had them feel each nut and describe what they saw. She taught them the name of each nut. Each child got to bring home a small bag of nuts.

Next she had the children go on a “nut hunt”. The children searched for small pictures of nuts the teacher had placed around the room.

The children next heard a story about a squirrel, made a squirrel puppet, and sang a song about squirrels. They got to bring home some squirrel coloring pages.

It was a lot of fun! A great way to spend a fall day.

I searched around online to find you some squirrel resources to do a squirrel lesson with your child. I found some really cute free squirrel-themed coloring pages you can download for your child to color.

If you would like to do some work with numbers and counting, here are some fun acorn numbers worksheets.

Books about squirrels: The Busy Little Squirrel by Nancy Tafuri, How Do You Know It’s Fall? by Allan Fowler, and A Squirrel’s Tale by Richard Fowler