Apples

We started Funshine's theme on Apples today! I know this is going to be a great two weeks... I love this theme, so many fun extender ideas to do with it.  

Books, books and more books! Here's a few books we will be reading the next two weeks. I also took the suggested list from Funshine and requested them from my local library. 

Apple Picking Sensory Table

The bottom is black beans, then I took a paper towel tube and cut a slit in it and added the tree out of cardboard that I had already painted. The "apples" are pom poms with velcro dots. They can pick the apples from the tree and put it in the basket!

Orchard Trees 

The orchard trees were included in the September box from Funshine. First, we painted the apples onto the green paper with a clothespin and a pom pom dipped in red paint. Once that dried we cut out our tree and then I had already taped together the trunk and cut a slit on the top so the tree could sit on the trunk. 

Apple Trees

To make these, we simply traced our arms/hand onto brown construction paper and then glued on a green tree cutout and finally used a clothespin with a pom pom dipped into red paint to make our apples.

Pass the Apple

The game of "Pass the Apple" was suggested from Funshine. They had a BLAST with it! Instead of playing "hot potato", we played "pass the apple". It did take them awhile to catch on, but once they figured it out, they didn't want to stop! 

Apple Picking

We also had fun with this suggested activity from Funshine, Ahead of time, I gathered enough baskets for them to each have one and then all my play apples and laid them out on the floor, It goes like this:                            Let's go apple picking today! Grab your basket and get in the car! (pick up the basket and pretend to clumb in a car. Pretend to drive and steer.)             Wow! Here we are! That was a long trip! (get out of the car and stretch.)      Look at all the apples! Let's pick some and put them in your basket. You might have to climb for some! (Pretend to reach and pick apples. Place them in the basket. Pretend to climb a tree.)                                                     Is your basket heavy? Mine is! Let's taste an apple. Yum! (Pretend basket is heavy. Pretend to munch on an apple.)

Once we were done with the above song of picking apples, we took our baskets and sorted them into colors, red and green and which basket did we think had more. Then we counted the apples. There was only 15 green apples and 26 red apples! 

Last but not least, we made patterns with the green and red apples!