Today I wanted to show you how one little activity could extend to like a week of preschool lessons. Once you get started you will realize how easy it is to teach your child while doing something really small.
Apple Stamping is the small activity I am starting with. All you do is half the apple, and then they can dip in the paint and stamp all over their paper. You could even make a big tree by stamping with leaves, then let them make the apples, then have them cut them out.
Other Activities you can do are:
1. You can have different colors of apples that your using and talk about all the different kinds of apples and colors of apples.
2. Art:You can paint with all the colors of the apples and talk about what happens when you mix certain colors together.
3. Fine Motor Skills: Cutting skills
4. Safety: Not touching knifes (can be taught while you are cutting apple)
5. Math: The patterns. You can make patterns with the apples (red red green. red red green. Let them guess what comes next).
6. Creativity: By letting them do art and get messy you are helping their brain work on their creativity. In other wards the right side of their brain!
7. Science: You can talk about what is inside an apple and show the seeds, stem, and skin
8. Math: Don't forget to count the seeds in your apples!
9. Taste/Math: Taste testing the different apples and make a graph of your findings
10. Math: Play Hi Ho Cheerio Oh (yes they are cherries, but I don't think they will even notice)
11. Field Trip: Go to a real farm and pick apples
12. Cooking: Dry apples with your kids
13. Singing/Poems: Learning little apple songs, finger plays, or poems.
14. Reading/Writing: Practice writing A. Because A is for Apple!
15. Fine Motor: Cut an Apple out of card stock and punch with paper punch holes around side. Attach string and let them sew.
16. Fine Motor: String Apple Jacks onto a necklace.
Now that was just in a few seconds I came up with all that. Imagine if I used the Internet, some of the preschool sites listed on this website, or took time to come up with other activities.
Have fun creating fun for your child!
This is my family three years ago. The kids costumes were bought and then I made my husbands and mine. Most of the time we do themes. This year I wanted to do Winni the Pooh, but the girls decided they wanted to use costumes from years past. We have done: Peter Pan, Fairytale, Little Mermaid, The Office, Traditional Halloween, and of course the Wizard of Oz.
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