Dear Reader,
Today we made apples on an apple tree using… apple stamps. I mean, of course! The hardest part of this activity was wandering around Walmart looking for the darn paper rolls! For the record, the white paper is down the craft aisle, by the poster boards. And the brown paper was in the paint aisle. There was paper in the packing aisle, but it was a huge roll for a lot more money. I didn’t figure I needed anything heavy duty, so cheaper definitely wins.
The second hardest thing was carving the apple and ***REMEMBERING TO DO IT BACKWARDS*** yeah, don’t forget that. Ahem… Lucky I had a bad apple I could carve into.
Anyway, after reading day 3 of Teach Your Child to Read and lesson 1 of Learn to Read, I made a large plateful of paint and let her stamp the tree we had drawn up together (Maybe cut the trunk out ahead of time, but honestly it wasn’t too time consuming that she got antsy). Then I handed her a white piece of construction paper for her to stamp on for our book of sounds.
Age Range
Preschool
Prep Required
run to a store
+
time to cut and glue
Time Needed
15 for the lesson
about 10 for the apple
Supervision
7/10
