Even though Lauren isn't old enough for school, it doesn't mean that she isn't equally excited. She squeals and points at every school bus that passes by and is proudly wearing her backpack around the house. She wants to do flashcards, "homework", learn to tie shoes, and all of the other things she has watched Turner learn over the summer.
In the theme of Back-to-School and Autumn approaching; I found a simple apple craft for us to do.
Here is what you will need:
Paper plate
Glue
Red tissue paper
Brown construction paper or cardstock
Green construction paper or cardstock
This was a great activity for Lauren to work on her fine motor skills as it involves lots of tearing and/or cutting and lots of object placement.
Here's what you do:
Tear or cut the red tissue paper into several pieces. We attempted to make the paper pieces about the size of Lauren's fist. Some were smaller and some were larger... the more diverse the better! Just make sure the pieces aren't too small as your toddler is going to have to glue each piece onto the plate. Lauren even enjoyed rolling some of the pieces up into little balls to add to her apple. Let them get as creative as they want!
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| She made tearing tissue paper look a lot harder than it really is! |
While your toddler is tearing paper, cut a stem out of the brown construction paper and a leaf out of the green construction paper.
Now that all of your apple parts are ready, it's time to glue them onto the plate. We covered the plate in glue and started adding the red pieces of tissue paper. While it was drying, we glued on the stem and the leaf. After all of the pieces of paper had dried, we went back over the apple and filled in a few gaps.
Ta-Da!!
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