Crazy for Autumn Collages

I was going through our craft supplies and saw a bunch of fall themed supplies left from other projects and after Thanksgiving we will be switching to Christmas projects so I wanted to use some of them up. So we made autumn collages. By the way I googled the word collage just to make sure I was spelling it like the art project and not college the school! I swear I was smart before I had two boys and no longer sleep.

We used cardboard, foam fall shapes, beans, pasta, craft sticks, orange paper shreds that were packaging from a Halloween decoration, leaf confetti, silk leaves, yarn, white glue and glitter glue.

The boys loved making those collages and asked to make more so I pulled out some holiday food pictures I cut from a magazine and we glued those onto sheets of card stock.

 The boys like picking out the food they liked and gluing them on. There was a fight over who got the picture of pumpkin pie thou! We like pie.

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Autumn Sensory Bin- Play Challenge

I saw the 30 days to play challenge that is going on at Imagination Tree and Hands on: as we grow which you can read more about here: 
Imagination Tree
Hands on: as we grow

I joined the challenge a little late on day 9 but I am going to try to do the previous ideas this month as well. The challenge for Day 9 was to play with a sensory bin. I had a Halloween bin we had been playing with so I took out the Halloween stuff and added leaves, fall colored blocks, foam turkeys, a few trees, pine cones and pasta.

I also put out a bunch of cups and toilet paper tubes for dumping and filling.

 First I play with E while we were waiting for big brother's bus. He saw the trees and a few other things and said he wanted to make a zoo. I went with his ideas and we got some animals and played zoo.

L was excited to see what we had set up when he got off the bus. he had fun exploring with us and had the idea to plant the trees in containers so they could "grow". We had lots of fun with this challenge and can't wait to try the others.