Apple Life Cycle Craft

Welcome back to the Bee Crafty Kids link up that I am co-hosting with To The Moon and Back,  Look! We’re Learning and Monster’s Ed Homeschooling Academy.

We have been having lots of fun doing a unit study all about apples.  We made this super cute and easy apple life cycle craft.

 Hailey and Hunter each had a strip of paper.  First they glued an apple on.

Next I gave them a paper apple to rip and make it look like it had been eaten.

The 3rd step was to glue on some seeds.

Next they made a tree…

 and added some pom pom apples.

Finaly, we added this cute little poem:
Eat an apple,
save the core.
Plant the seeds,
and grow some more.

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Inspiration credit: Pinterest

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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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Poppins Book Nook- Fairy Tale Theme

The theme for the Poppins Book Book this month was fairy tales, which is a perfect theme for us!  The only problem was- which book to pick!  Before we could decide on a book, we had to find out exactly what a makes a book a fairy tale.

I drew this lovely castle… I thought I was doing a pretty good job drawing it, but while I was working on it Hailey said, “Are you sure you don’t want to just print one?  I don’t want you to embarrass yourself on the internet.”  She did admit I did a pretty good job once it was done though.  She colored it in after I finished drawing it.

Then we went over what makes a story a fairy tale.  Once we knew what needed to be in a book to have it be considered a fairy tale she decided she wanted to read Cinderella.

Hailey did a great job reading “Cinderella” to Hunter.

Then we decided to make Cinderella’s carriage.  Hailey and Hunter painted a pumpkin blue.

Then Hailey added some glitter.

Our finished Cinderella Carriage.

Then Hailey wrote her own fairy tale.

Posing with her favorite page in her book.

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Bee Crafty Kids- Acorn Craft

Welcome back to the Bee Crafty Kids link up that I am co-hosting with To The Moon and Back,  Look! We’re Learning and Monster’s Ed Homeschooling Academy.

We have been so busy all week getting ready to go on vacation that we ran out of time to do a craft.  So, I’m sharing an old one with you.  With fall right around the corner I thought it would be fun to share a fall activity.

Here is a simple and cute acorn craft:

First you’ll need to paint a brown piece of paper with a darker shade of brown.

Once the paint dries, rip apart the paper. Also, rip apart a piece of regular brown paper.

Glue the lighter colored brown paper to the top of the acorn and the brown paper that was painted to the bottom of the acorn.

The finished acorn.

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