More Apple Ideas

This is a collection of ideas from the early childhood mailring from Teachers.Net.

Last year I had my class bring in a plain white Tshirt. We used apples cut in half and with fabric paint(red, green and yellow) printed the apples all over the front of the shirt. I did cover one spot on the front with construction paper helded down with masking tape. When the shirts were dry the blank spot was used to print with permanent fabric marker "I'm A Good Apple!" These turned out really cute and my kids enjoyed wearing them all year. I was lucky enough to have a very creative parent that did all the printing on the shirts (22 of them) She made the o's in 'good' look like little apples. I saw this idea in a MAILBOX publication. One of my very favorite resources along with this group!! :) Chris/preK/PA

Here is an Apple experiment. Make an small book for observation and prediction. Day 1- Have 2 apples of approximately same size. Peel one apple and leave the other alone. (I explain control group in experimenting. Don’t tell them that nothing happens to it!!!!!! See what the children think.) After a week or two- Do the final report. Apple Experiment We peeled one apple and left the other one alone. (Children draw apples.) Peeled apple Apple left alone Prediction: How do you think the apples will look after a couple of weeks? (Children draw the pictures and dictate.) Peeled apple Apple left alone Apple Experiment Final Report These are how the apples looked on ______________. (Children draw the picture and dictate.) Peeled apple Apple left alone

Art: Family Apple Trees: Cut a sponge to look like a tree trunk. Cut apple shapes out of sponge. On white paper, place the tree trunk sponge (dipped in brown paint) on paper. Use fingers to press on leaves with green paint. Sponge red apples onto the paper for family members. After it dries, family member names may be printed near apples with fine tip black marker. These are gorgeous especially when packed with colored paper. (I use dark blue.)

Apple Halves with Seeds: Cut 2 apple shapes out of oaktag. Make one about 1/4’ smaller all around. Children trace and cut larger apple out of red paper. The smaller is traced and cut out of white. Paste white apple onto red apple. Precut black seeds are available for the children to paste onto the apple. Note: I do this after estimating seeds in apples and observing where the seeds are located. This was it is an assessment tool as well as art! Sheryl/k/MA

We also make a book about an apple tree over the 4 seasons. I have a "naked" tree, and they have to put leaves, apples, background, etc. for each season. They put the blossoms on during spring, etc. We do graphing by seeds, color of apple, which one tastes best (red, yellow, green), and then we taste apple butter, apple juice, applesauce (that we've made!), and apple jelly. We graph our favorite. We make trees with apples cut in half and dipped in red paint. We visit an apple orchard the end of Sept. I know there's more, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head! Steph

Last year I read the book, Ten Apples Up on Top. We then made a class book called We Have Apples Up on Top. For each page I had the sentence strip for the child to fill in the blanks _________ had _____ apples up on top. Above this I had enlarged and xeroxed their picture ( I always take them in the beginning of the year). The children got to pick an apple with a # on it. After they told me what # it was they picked that many apples (precut apple shapes) out of a basket. They finished the sentence, glued their apples on top of their heads and we had a class book. It was a favorite in our classroom. I believe the ideas was in Mailbox at one time. Chris/preK/PA

We always make applesauce and make a class book about the experience. Almost every year the book turns out like this:

Janet/K/OR

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