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As you and your students ease into the daily routine at the beginning of the school year, crafts can be a very important addition! Your students can practice a variety of important skills through hands-on craft activities. In this post, I’m going to share some fun September crafts for kindergarten that your students will love!
September is a month of lightning-speed learning and growth in kindergarten! Crafts can be an effective addition to your September lesson plans to help enhance your students’ learning. Here are some of my favorite benefits of using crafts in kindergarten:
These are just some of the many ways that you can use crafts to enhance your lesson plans in September.
I wanted to share a few of my favorite kindergarten craft ideas for September, in case you’re looking for a few new crafts to add to your lesson plans. These crafts are all easy to prep and fun for students! Plus, they all incorporate additional academic skill practice so you can make the most of your instructional time!
September is a great month for a little bit of apple fun in the classroom! After learning about apples through nonfiction read-alouds, students can create a craft to document what they’ve learned.
This apple craft is great labeling practice! Students can assemble an apple craft and then attach labels to the corresponding parts of the apple. These completed apples look great on a back-to-school bulletin board!
In addition to learning about the parts of an apple, your students will love learning more about the apple life cycle during an apple thematic unit. After reading nonfiction books and then discussing the apple life cycle as a class, students can create their own 3D apple life cycle craft!
Each side of this apple represents one part of the apple life cycle. Students will be so excited to take their crafts home to show their families! This is an excellent way to encourage students to use the new vocabulary they learned in class. As they show off their crafts, they will be using that vocabulary to talk about it, and using the visual cues of the craft to help them if they forget!
Celebrating fun holidays in your classroom is an easy way to increase engagement and motivation for skill practice. For example, you could celebrate Johnny Appleseed’s birthday with your class on September 26th by reading nonfiction books and then putting together a fun craft!
This craft gives students the chance to practice one-to-one correspondence, number formation, and sight words all in one activity! Students will create thumbprint apples and then complete a sentence frame that says how many apples they see.
As the weather turns cooler, a scarecrow unit can be a fun way to keep your students engaged and motivated to practice all of the new skills they’re learning at the beginning of the school year. For example, this 2D shape scarecrow craft can also help your students practice graphing.
Students can build a scarecrow craft using 2D shapes, and then count and graph how many of each shape they used to create their scarecrows. This math craft can make a great fall classroom decor.
Your class will love learning all about scarecrows and then creating a craft to go with it. As you read about scarecrows together as a class, you can create an anchor chart with all of the facts you’re learning about scarecrows.
Students can then complete a flipbook to document everything they’ve learned about scarecrows. Then, they can create a scarecrow craft to hold the flipbook they’ve created.
Book companion activities can help students practice comprehension skills and make your read-alouds even more engaging!
This scary pumpkin craft is a companion activity for The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams. Students can put together the scary pumpkin scarecrow from the end of the story. For a little bit of extra sequencing practice, you can encourage students to assemble their crafts in the same order as the story.
This activity is a great way to say farewell to September and get ready for October. This pumpkin-themed craft makes a perfect fall bulletin board!
All of these crafts are included in cohesive thematic units for September. The apple and scarecrow units are filled with themed literacy and math practice, along with the crafts I shared in this post. These activities and crafts are a great addition to your lesson plans in September.
I have put together a bundle with both of these units in one easy-to-download resource. Just click below to find it in the A Spoonful of Learning shop or in my TPT store.
Be sure to save this post so you can come back to it later! Just add the pin below to your favorite kindergarten board on Pinterest. You’ll be able to quickly find these craft ideas when you’re putting together your September lesson plans.
These alphabet books will have students dive deep into learning about each letter of the alphabet while eager to see what activity they get to complete next!
