Here’s what you’ll need: a piece of red and white construction paper, glue, and several apple seeds.
1. Make a letter “A” on white paper. Cut it out and glue it onto the red piece of paper. As you can, my “A” is a little disformed!
2. Trace around the white “A”.
3. Cut out the red “skin”.
4. Put a stream of glue on the “A” and let your little one get busy putting the seeds on top of the glue.
All done!
Since Big Brother is averse to cutting, I was trying to think of a way to do this activity without having to cut the apples. That’s when I noticed we had an empty egg carton…and those could easily be converted into stacking apples!
So, here’s what you’ll need: an egg carton, a red Sharpie, an empty container (I used an Oatmeal container) and a picture of the characters from the book (see below). This activity evolved once we started it, so I eventually used wooden grilling skewers we had to make the apples stay on top of eachother.
1. Cut the egg carton into individual pieces.
4. Print off this picture to fit the size of your container (just right-click and select “print picture”. I printed an 8×10 to fit our Oatmeal container. You could also just draw the characters as well…or even use a picture of your child!
5. Tape the picture of the characters to your container.
6. I reread the story and let Big Brother act it out by putting the apples on top of the container.
We started off stacking the apples on top of eachother, but eventually he preferred this way.
And Big Brother really enjoyed putting the apples on his head.
7. As we were playing, I got the idea to use grilling skewers to secure them on top of the container. I poked holes through the top of each individual egg carton. It makes for instant fine motor practice too!
Sunflowers are in full-bloom here. So yesterday I took the boys out to a nearby field to take some pictures! My mom came along to help pry some smiles and she suggested we pick several sunflowers to make a “Sunflower S.”
We put the flowers between 2 pieces of waxed paper and under several cookbooks overnight.
1. One the flowers are pressed, cut out an “S” from construction paper.
2. Let your little one add glue where he/she wishes for the flowers to be.
3. Add the flowers.
4. Since we didn’t have enough sunflowers to completely cover the “S”, we decided to add sunflower seeds.
Lining the sunflower seeds up on the line of glue was great fine motor practice!
And here are some of the pictures of my little loves…
to find your state!
Here’s what you’ll need to make a Dinosaur D with your little one (you could also use this for Dragon D’s too): cardstock or thin cardboard, bubble wrap, paint, construction paper. *UPDATE: I would recommend NOT using tempera paint as it has a tendency to flake off the bubble wrap once it has dried.
1. Trace the letter “D” on cardstock and cut out.
2. Use the “D” that has already been cut out to trace another “D” on bubble wrap (the smaller the bubbles, the better). Cut the bubble wrap “D” out.
3. Glue the bubble wrap onto the cardstock.
5. After the D’s have dried, put some glue on the bottom flap of the spikes and place the “D” on top.
I love this alphabet craft because it is also 3-dimensional! Add some magnetic tape to the back and it would make a great refrigerator magnet.
Alphabet books are great for helping preschoolers learn the letter names and sounds! This book has a dinosaur for every letter of the alphabet (which I unfortunately had great trouble pronouncing). :) There is a lot of text in this book, so I would recommend just going through the
Here’s a fun song to sing with your little one. Big Brother LOVED roaring like a big, hungry dinosaur!
