The builder came home from preschool with a seasons craft.  They had glued gliter and colored construction paper on different sections of the tree to represent the 4 seasons.

Old Bear by Kevin Henkes is a wonderful book about the four seasons and a hibernating bear.  It is a book you can read and do projects with your kiddos all year long.  Activity suggestions…

Seasons:

• listen and/or dance to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
• collect nature samples throughout the year
• record the positions of the stars

Winter (if you have snow):

• make snowball cookies
• make snow ice cream
• build a snow fort

Spring:

• raise some caterpillars
• collect flowers in bloom
• paint eggs

Summer:

• make a slip’n’slide
• lay in the tall grass & find animals, shapes, etc. in the clouds
• make a boat and let it go in a nearby stream/gutter

Fall:

• leaf art – make prints and collages with leaves
• paint your pumpkins
• throw a leaf party