Apple Tree

Today we were talking about apples, and apple trees. We talked about all the different colours of apples, and that they are all called different things. The kids thought that was crazy! After finding out that apples grow on trees, we decided to make an apple tree.

First I drew out a bunch of apples on paper. Then I got some paints and sponges ready.

Then I let the kids go crazy with their sponges and the paint.

While the apples were drying, I made a tree out of brown paper, and Danika made some leaves and a pumpkin for around the tree. (she did apples too, I just didn't get a picture of her for some reason). After the apples were dry, we cut them out. And then we taped them to the wall on the tree.

handprint trees

I have two crafts here as well. There are many ways to do these crafts, and you can do them for any season!

The first one we did was finger paint trees.
I got everything together that we needed- paint, paper- and that is pretty much all! Then I painted the kids hands and we stamped them on the paper. Then with their fingers, they can dip in the red, yellow, orange and brown paint and put their finger prints on the paper for the leaves...

Then today we made fall handprint trees with paper and glue. First I got everything ready. I cut a bunch of leaves out of orange, red, yellow and brown paper. As well as some brown pieces to trace the kids hands on, and cover the toilet paper roll. I cut down paper towel rolls to make the trees a bit bigger! Then I got some crayons and glue.

I traced the kids hands onto a piece of paper (both hands), and then let them colour the square piece that will be the trunk. Once they were done colouring the trunk piece, we put glue on their handprints and they glued the coloured leaves on.

Then we covered the paper towel rolls with the square that they coloured. Cut out the hand prints, and then glued them onto the covered paper towel roll.

I did put a bit of tape on the backs of their handprints, and into the roll to hold them up.

Then we had our handprint trees...

Fall Fun

I thought since I have a couple minutes, I would sit down and post about some of the things we have been doing.

We are talking about Fall right now, so this morning we made a fall colours collage. They are so easy, but let the kids use their imaginations, and inner artist!

First we ripped up a few pieces of paper- red, orange, and yellow. Then got some green paint and a sponge ready. Then we needed some glue and some brown paper to finish our masterpieces!

First the kids glued the ripped up pieces of paper onto the brown one.

Then we took a small amount of green paint and sponged it onto the paper when we were done.

And then we have our fall colours collage.

We were also able to get outside last friday and start collecting leaves for our halloween decorations. I am with everyone else, it is a bit too early for them, but we live in a condo complex, and they come and rake up our leaves. So, we have to get out and get them when we can. Since they started to fall already, we had to use our nice day and do it.

I bought the little ghost bags for the kids, and we made an activity out of it. First finding yellow leaves, then red, orange, brown and then green. The kids had a great time walking around trying to find the different colours!