Apple Tree Activity

I love how these apple trees turned out!  Plus, they were easy and fun to make 🙂

First, we glued the base of the tree onto the paper.

Next, we glued ripped up pieces of green paper to the top of the tree.

After that we stamped red, yellow and green paint onto the trees to represent apples.  We used the ends of markers to do it, they were the perfect size.

Hailey decided to rip up more paper to add some grass and a sunshine.

Our finished apple trees.

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Apple Tree Craft

Here is a simple apple tree craft:

First Hailey and Hunter painted a paper plate green.

Then Hailey ripped up some red construction paper.

Hunter gluing some apples onto his tree.

Hailey adding some apples.

Completed apple trees.

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Tot School

Hunter is 19.5 months old.

Well, several weeks have gotten away from me again without a Tot School post.  That’s what summer vacation will do to ya!  Anyway, here is what Hunter did over the last few weeks.

 Our color for the month of July was purple, so Hunter got to use the do-a-dot markers and make a purple picture.  I definitely slacked in the color teaching department though and we didn’t do very many purple related activities.

Our theme during the month of July was ocean/beach.  Here are some of the projects we made:

Hunter painted a whale.

The whales turned out cute!  You can see the whole post here.

He painted some popsicle sticks to make a fish.

Hunter’s finished Popsicle Stick Fish- see the whole post here.

Next we made jellyfish, and Hunter had fun painting his paper bowl.

I turned around for a few seconds…

and Hunter had fun painting his face.

I guess he wanted to make sure I knew how the paint got there.

Our completed Jellyfish- see the whole post here.

We made a fish craft snack, which Hunter ate before I could take a picture of it 🙂

Here are the ones that Hailey and I made- they were cute and yummy.

Hunter loves when we do activities and crafts.  When he sees me getting things out, preparing to make something, he has to look and see what I’m doing.  Then he’ll say, “Paint” and “Coat,” which is what he calls his smock.

Hunter and Hailey working on painting to make a Killer Whale.

Completed Killer Whales- see full post here.

Hunter loved feeling the stickiness of the contact paper for our Fish Aquariums.

Completed Fish Aquariums- see full post here.

Stop by 1+1+1=1 to see what the other tots were up to this week.

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Poppins Book Nook- Ocean/Beach Theme

The theme for the Poppins Book Nook for the month of July is ocean/beach.  This worked out perfectly for us because Hailey really showed a big interest in learning about the ocean after our recent trip to the beach.

The first thing Hailey did was make a KWL chart… she listed the things she knows and the things she wants to know.

Then we got some books out of the library… some ocean related books…

and some dolphin related books.  There were just so many good ones I couldn’t decide what to pick!

We really enjoyed the books, but this was our favorite.  There were so many interesting facts and bright, colorful pictures.

Hailey is working on a unit study about dolphins.  We didn’t finish it in time to include it in this post, but I hope to post about later this week as we are almost done.

She is also creating a dolphin lapbook, which is not done either.  Come back later this week to see a post about that.

We made a yummy treat to go along with our ocean theme… Hunter ate his before I could take a picture.

They turned out cute!  It’s just a graham cracker with blue frosting, some goldfish and some sprinkles.

Hailey was pleased with the results too 🙂

Of course, we had to make a craft, and we decided to make a killer whale.

You’ll need:
paper plate
black paint
black construction paper
something to paint with
pencil
googly eyes
glue
yarn

Hunter saw me setting up to do an activity and he got super excited to get started!

The first thing we did was draw a line with a pencil on the plates, showing how far we wanted the black paint to go.  Then Hunter and Hailey painted their plates.

Add some googly eyes

Some yarn for a mouth

Our completed killer whales.

 If you’re looking for more beach/ocean related activities I have posted several this month- check them out!

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