Fall is just around the corner! Are you looking to spruce up your lessons with some fall fun? Or maybe decorate a fall bulletin board? These Fall Crafts for Elementary Students will do the trick!
Fall Crafts Kit for Elementary Students
If you haven’t already seen our Craft Kits, you will want to check these out! Crafting has SO many benefits in the primary classroom. I will fill you in on that in a second. However, crafting can be overwhelming when you have assessments to be done, sight words to teach, math standards to cover, science to fit in and the list goes on and on. Well, crafts aren’t hard to fit in anymore with our craft kits! Our craft kits cover a variety of writing standards such as nonfiction writing, opinion writing, grammar, inventive spelling and more! You can really make them fit whatever you need. Each kit comes with 5 monthly themed crafts and 10+ writing prompts. You also have blank writing prompt pages for you to create your own prompts and quick print craft pieces. These kits really are a all-in-one!
Why Craft in the Classroom?
I touched on this a bit in the introduction of this post but crafts still have a place in the classroom, let me explain! Crafting in the classroom is a great way to get your students talking, working independently, practicing fine motor skills and exercising their creativity. Crafting is a GREAT low-pressure way to get students working independently. When my students come to me in August they are capable of about 5-7 minutes of working independently. A great way to begin building this stamina is through crafts. They enjoy crafts and they can get wrapped up for 20-30 minutes perfecting their project. Then, I can begin using crafts to compliment our standards and get 30-45 minutes of independent work time PLUS amazing work samples for our standards-based grading system. Finally, don’t get me started on the fine motor skill practice that comes with crafting. In first grade, we are still working on pencil grip, crayon pressure, gluing, cutting, layering objects and more. With crafting we can work on tons of fine motor skills at one time! Okay, now that you are convinced check out these Fall Crafts for Elementary Students!
Celebrate Fall
Celebrate fall with one of these fun fall crafts. Students can practice creative writing, poetry, descriptive words and more with these fall writing prompts. In addition to the writing practice, in comes the fine motor with a fun fall craft.
Sunflower Unit
One of my favorite fall activities is studying sunflowers and their life cycles. This is a big standard in first grade. When we visit the pumpkin patch there is often a thriving sunflower field and my students love making connections to what we learned! When I taught preschool, we did a complete sunflower unit. This goes to show how flexible these craft kits can be depending on the grade you are teaching.
I hope these gave you some ideas for fall crafts for elementary students and inspired you to keep crafting in your classroom, no matter how old your students are! Crafting has SO many benefits. If you are convinced, you can check out the year long bundle here. If you are just now going back to school this September you can pair these fall crafts with our August Back to School crafts! You can check out that blog post here.
Happy Crafting!
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