Our theme this week is Apples...goes well with our letter A lessons don't ya think?! We read my most fav book yesterday, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. I love love that book! Anyhow, to continue that story a bit we created our own apple tree using the kids' handprints for leaves.
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| Remember those handprints we did last week? Well, we made these green ones that day as well. |
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| Two hands! |
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| Load 'em up! |
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| Checking out his green hands :) |
After their green handprints dried, I cut them all out and saved them for our tree. Then yesterday they painted their apples. We used small paper plates and I let them paint until they said they were done.
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| Harley and Ash both picked green first. |
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| He was digging it! |
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| Moving onto red... |
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| Lots of swirl action going on. |
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| Time for a yellow one! |
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| And back to red... |
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| Gotta get the edges too :) |
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| All of our apples! |
Once the paper plates dried, I cut out the centers in an apple-ish shape. Then during nap time I put their tree together! The kids love it and every time they walk by it they check out the handprints. I plan to turn this apple tree into a fall tree in a few weeks :)
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| Apple Handprint Tree! |
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