🍁Students turn a pumpkin, apple, acorn, maple leaf, pinecone and ghost into brand-new characters, then write about who their friend became. A 6-week plan gives you one fall friend per week from September to November.
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Fall Friends in Disguise is a bundle of six fall writing crafts for PreK, kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade. Students take a familiar fall object, such as a pumpkin, apple, acorn, maple leaf, pinecone or ghost, disguise it as a brand-new character and then write about it. It blends art, imagination and early writing in one seasonal project.
Each fall friend has four pages. An illustrated idea gallery shows six possible disguises to spark thinking, and a large craft template gives students plenty of room to decorate. Two writing pages follow: a sentence frame page for PreK and kindergarten, and a story writing page for grades 1 and 2 with a beginning, middle and end organizer.
The bundle is designed to last the whole season. A 6-week teacher plan introduces one fall friend each week from September through November. Illustrated craft directions, a supplies list and a Disguise Idea Bank with 48 ideas make planning simple, even for a busy art center.
Finished crafts become a celebration. A class book cover turns everyone's writing into "Our Class Book of Fall Friends in Disguise," a two-page banner tops a bulletin board, and Guess What I Am? fold cards let classmates guess each disguise. Six award categories, including Most Creative, Funniest Disguise and Super Storyteller, plus blank templates, recognize every child.
The 38 black and white pages suit fall creative writing lessons, art centers, bulletin boards, morning work, homeschool, sub plans and early finishers.
📖 Teaching guide · 12 min readFall Creative Writing in PreK–2: Turning Disguise Crafts into Character StoriesRead the guide →A disguise gives children an instant story idea: who is this character now, and what happens to it? The same craft works for every level, with sentence frames for the youngest and a beginning, middle and end organizer for 1st and 2nd graders.
Six fall friends: Pumpkin, Apple, Acorn, Maple Leaf, Pinecone and Ghost, each with an idea gallery, craft template and two writing pages.
Each friend has a PreK–K sentence frame page and a Grades 1–2 story writing page with a beginning, middle and end organizer.
The 6-week teacher plan covers one fall friend per week, spread across September through November.
Each friend has a gallery of six disguise examples, and a Disguise Idea Bank lists 48 more ideas.
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