Felt Design-a-jack-o-lantern

Materials needed
orange felt
black felt
white felt
scrap of brown felt
sewing machine or hot glue

Cut out a pumpkin shape in orange felt. Sew or hot glue it to a rectangle of black felt. Cut out a brown felt stem and sew or hot glue it on the pumpkin. Cut out eye, nose, and mouth shapes from black and white felt. The felt pieces stick right to the felt pumpkin. The kids can then design all kind of jack-o-lantern faces. You can either hang up the pumpkin or set it out on the table for play.

Jack-o-Lantern bagels

Color cream cheese orange with yellow and red food coloring. Then add pretzel sticks to make a jack-o-lantern face.

Color cream cheese orange with yellow and red food coloring. Then add a pretzel stick  for the stem and raisins for the face.

Super easy and super fun!

Teacher appreciation

An apple (with a stem) with 2 labels affixed to eachother with a written message and a red ribbon

Pumpkin and Bat bagels

Mini bagel with orange cream cheese (dyed with red and yellow food coloring), raisin features and a pretzel stick stem

And for the non-raisin eaters, a mini bagel with orange cream cheese and pretzel stick features and stem

And for the non-cream cheese eaters, a mini bagel with nutella and goldfish cracker eyes

Leaf Rubbings

For a fun fall activity, you can make leaf rubbings. Go on a nature walk with your children to collect different shaped leaves.
Put the leaf on a table and put a piece of paper over it. Using the side of a crayon with no wrapper, rub over the leaf until the leaf shape comes through.

Fall Flashlight Walk

This is an easy, free, simple, and fun activity that the kids really love. On a warm fall night, after it gets dark, arm your kids with flashlights and go for a "flashlight walk".  You can walk around the block, walk in a park or along a bike trail. We did half in a park and half around the block and visited all of the halloween decorations in peoples' lawns.
It's even more fun if you get together with another family to do it.  All of the kids got such a kick out of walking in the dark and playing with their flashlights!

Fruit of the Spirit Bible Study for Kindergartners - part 2

Lesson – Fruit of the Spirit & Galatians 5 Bible Verse

“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. “

- Galatians 5:22

Today we are going to talk about fruit.  Do you like fruit?  What is your favorite fruit?  All fruit is different.  It tastes different, it looks different and it feels different in your mouth (sometimes fruit is crunchy, sometimes soft, sometimes juicy, etc.)

The Bible talks about fruit but it’s a different kind of fruit, it's called the fruit of the Spirit.  The fruit of the Spirit is a little like real fruit because they are each special and different too.  It's really neat because when we ask Jesus to live in us his Spirit stays with us and He will give us some of this special fruit.  As we grow and learn more about Jesus, the Holy Spirit will give us more and more fruit so we can become more like Jesus.

Now, the fruit I’m talking about isn’t strawberries or apples.  We read about it in the Bible in a book called Galatians.

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.  All of these fruits are good to have and the Holy Spirit wants to give them to us.

It is important to God that we develop the fruits of God's spirit because these are the qualities that God has. We need to learn how to use these fruits so that everyone around us will see how it looks to act like Jesus.  It takes time and practice to develop our fruit. Sometimes we may not feel like exercising our fruit, but with practice and self-control, we can learn to use them more and more.

God wants us to try to be good and have the fruit of the spirit in us. 

Let’s talk about the different fruits of the spirit and what they all mean.

Just in case you don't know what each of the fruit of the spirit means I'm going to try to explain them.  (Show pictures of fruit with corresponding fruit of the spirit printed).