Apple Art Apple Mural
Cut out a large apple shape from a large paper roll. Have the children do apple printing on it. Use a variety of sizes and shapes and colors - red, green, yellow. Tack apple print to wall and play a variety of games with the mural.(eg.count the apple prints,find the print that is the largest/smallest ,find the print that is the darkest/lightest ,do any of the shapes look the same/different?
"Mini Apple Orchard"
Have the children work in small groups to design their own "Mini Apple Orchard". Fill a pan with dirt, twigs, toy tractors, green sponges for apple trees with red tissues for apples, or anything the children can come up with as ideas for their orchards.
Dried Apple Wreath
Cut a wreath shape from cardboard. Glue dried apples rings around the wreath overlapping them. Gather some dried flowers & leaves to fill in the wreath. Add a bow at the top.
Bumpy Apple Sachets
supplies: fine-grain sandpaper, scissors, white paper, crayons, cinnamon oil or vanilla, an iron, and an old towel.
1. Before class cut the sandpaper into apple shapes (one for each child). Be sure each sandpaper apple is at least 3" across.
2. Set out crayons. give each child a sandpaper apple and let children scribble-color the apples with crayons. Encourage children to press hard while coloring. As children color their apples, heat the iron to low. Be sure the iron is out of the children's reach.
3. When the apples are colored, hand each child a sheet of white paper, then help children fold the paper in half. demonstrate how to slide a sandpaper apple between the fold.
4. Place the folded papers containing the colored apples under a towel. Iron gently over the towel for 30 seconds. make sure preschoolers do not touch the iron!
5. let children unfold their papers to reveal "bumpy" apple pictures. Then invite children to put a drop or two of scented oil on their sandpaper apples to make them smell good. *These scented sandpaper apples make great sachets for dresser drawers or the family car.
Apple Painting
Have apples cut lengthwise and widthwise and have the children use them to print on paper in red, green and yellow tempera paint.
Apple Necklace
Put out bowls of applesauce and cinnamon. You mix equal parts of applesauce to equal parts of cinnamon (1 cup to 1 cup) Mix thoroughly and make a dough consistency. Have the children roll it out, and use cookie cutters to make shapes. Let dry on a cookie sheet for about 2 days (maybe more) and turn over to dry. Make sure to make a hole at the top with a straw so that when it dries you can string yarn through it to hang. It makes a lovely scented necklace or decoration.
Apple Core Pencil Holder
Paper mache around a toilet paper roll. Pipe cleaner stem. Green raffia leaf.
Stained Glass Apples
Make apple cutouts from construction paper. Cut out the center (to leave a "frame" of sorts). Spread glue on sheets of wax paper, slightly larger than the apple paper. Add red, yellow and green tissue paper squares to waxed paper. Glue apple frame to waxed paper. Dry overnight. Peel off waxed paper. Trim excess paper from edges of apple. Hang in the window.
Paper Trees
Rip brown paper (or paper bags) to make a tree trunk on another piece of paper. Use a sponge to make green leaves around the top of the tree. Make red fingerprint apples.
Dried Apple Necklace
Make a necklace of dried apples by coring the apples and slicing them into 1/4" slices. Thread the apple rings onto string and hang to dry. Cover with cheesecloth to keep clean. You can also tie a ribbon around each individual slice and make an ornament for the Christmas tree.
Apple Pomander
You can make an apple pomander by sticking whole cloves in the apple and filling it all around.
Apple Prints from Corks
Print "apples" on a tree using corks dipped in red paint. The trees are cut out by the children brown trunk is just a strip of brown paper that the child cuts a straight line and the top of the tree is outlined by the teacher and the children cut them out.
Painting with Crab Apples
Many children will really enjoy painting with crab apples that are inedible. Start by using all five senses to explore each part of the apple. Have the children place an apple in a shallow amount of paint in a bowl. Each child picks up an apple by the stem and places it within a lid of a box that is lined with paper. The children manipulate the box so that the apples rolls back and forth vertically and horizontally. Talk about it's spherical shape as it rolls. This is very similar to marble painting but you are using an apple instead.
Apple Prints
To have them come out looking like apples and not just circles, cut the apples the day before you will use them for printing. Put the paint on a piece of paper towel in a tray. It becomes more like a stamp pad and the apples print better.
Apple Tree with Sponge Painting
Draw a large tree on craft paper. Cut a sponge into round pieces and attach clothespin to the back of each piece. Give each child a clothespin sponge to dip into red tempera paint and dab on the tree to look like apples.
Apple Head Grannies
Peel the apple leave the stem at the top. Carve facial feqtures in the face. Cut some lines in the forehead. This will make wrinkles when dried. Tie a string to the stem. Hang in a dry area like a window in a couple of weeks the apples will shrink and wrinkle up like little old ladies. You will have to stick something like whole cloves,nails, or straight pins in the sockets for the eyes.Add rice for teeth.You can add a little rouge on the cheeks. Make a body by putting the heads on small bottles (shampoo, dish soap etc.) Make a dress out of a piece of fabric. Use a small paper clip to make glasses. Hint: If you don't want the apples to be very brown, then dip them in a mixture of salt and lemon juice first.
An Apple Orchard
Read Albert's Field Trip (about a trip to the apple orchard).
Then go on a nature walk and look for twigs that look like miniature trees - with smaller branches. Each child needs one. The first thing you need to do is make play doh.Add green food coloring. Each child gets a ball of play doh - first,let them play with it for a while.They each press their ball into a clear plastic tumbler - this becomes the "grass." Let it harden a bit overnight. Then they each will place their "tree" into the "grass" and that sits until the doh is totally hard - another day or two. They they use crumpled pieces of 1" X 2" red tissue paper and glue them on the twigs - these are the "apples," of course! They are all displayed on a counter with a catchy little title.
Toward the end of September , peel apples and carve out "faces." These will sit for several weeks and shrivel up to become witch heads. Add white hair and a hat (in ice cream cone painted black) - and hang in the room through Halloween.
Paper Plate Apples
Give a child a 9 inch paper plate. Have them cut out the shape of a leaf from green paper (draw out the leaf for them or let them be creative) and this will be added to the apple last. Make the apple red by simply coloring the whole plate red, painting the whole plate red, sponge painting the plate red for a textured look, or by tearing up pieces of red construction paper and gluing them on the plate for a unique textured 3-D type of look. Don't forget to add the leaf. Add a piece of brown paper for a stem.
Apple
red strips of paper about 1 1/2 ins wide green strip about 3 ins long and 1 in wide brown strip about 2 ins long 1 in wide Take the red strip of paper and bend the ends together. should resemble an apple. bend the green strip and add to the apple. DO NOT FOLD PAPER .Then stick the brown strip in the top. then stick a stapler inside the apple and staple.
Make Red and Green Play Dough
Foolproof Playdough
Need: 2 1/2 c. flour
1 c. salt
1 T. cream of tartar
3 T cooking oil
2 c. boiling water
2 packages unsweetened Kool Aid
Mix dry ingredients. Add oil and water. Stir quickly, mixing well. When cool, mix with your hands. Store in an air-tight container.
Paper Plate Apples
Paint two paper plates red and staple together leaving a small hole to stuff with newspaper. Add paper leaves and hang.
Apple Man and His Adventure in...
Stick whole cloves into one side of an apple to make eyes, nose and a mouth. Stick toothpicks or pretzels to make arms. Have the children take turns adding to a story about an adventure that the Apple Man has. Record the story on tape, and later write it in book form and have the children illustrate it.
Apple dolls
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