15 Fall Activities in special education

The feeling of crisp, cool air and changing colors of the leaves make us feel like sweater weather, boots are right around the corner and you need some fall activities? Fear not, these fall activities, pictures and craftivities are just for you

Is fall weather your favorite season? It is definitely mine. It’s a time of year that the temperature cools down and football is everywhere and the leaves change colors. In addition, this time of year is also perfect for lots of great fall activities in special education.

Craftivities for the fall

With the leaves changing colors some fall activities in special education that kids enjoy doing include: 

• Happy Fall Suncatchers
• Fall Leaves Crowns
• Tissue Paper Leaf Craft
• Fall Bracelets
• Fall Dot Marker Sheets
• Magic Color Leaves

Fall picture books

Also, some awesome books to read during this fall season include:

• Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall
• There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves
• Too Many Pumpkins
• Pete The Cat: Five Little Pumpkins
• Counting On Fall

Teaching Social Skills Around in the fall

Next up, emotions can be hard to deal with, am I right? Use these pumpkins and spider social skills activities to help students overcome and express their feelings this fall season. Social skills is taught daily. It can add some fun fall emotion and feeling activities to help reinforce and teach emotions and feelings. Kids can match the pumpkin’s/spider’s faces, have writing prompts about different emotions, and read two versions of an emotional story. The fall activities in special education are low prep.

Also, the pumpkin and spider emotions are also a great way to talk about how kids are feeling about fall activities in special education. It lends itself to talk about things are they maybe 

• scare of
• excited for
• Worried about
• Happy to dress up as

Also, This letter and number worksheets are great for centers, seatwork, and even emergency sub plans. In addition, they are engaging and great for reinforcing and maintaining basic skills. No matter if you are in a preschool, special education or general education setting, these are perfect. 

Finally, Fall is here. Which means Halloween is close by. Don’t forget to check out this blog post for Halloween activities perfect for kids of any age.