This was a great Preschool Picasso
turnout with some new families to the group!
I gave everyone a brief introduction on
Preschool Picasso and announced our apple theme.
We read Apples for Little Fox
by Ekaterina Trukhan. This is the cutest story about a fox who loves the
library and enjoys reading detective books. He can't wait to solve a real life
mystery, but can't seem to see one…until all the apples disappeared on his
favorite apple tree. Of course this story has a sweet ending. The group really
enjoyed this book and I would definitely use this one again for any
apple-related program.
Once we talked a little bit more about
the book, I explained our two crafts for the day. Our first craft is usually
always our paint craft, so for this one we were going to be using real apples
from the library's apple tree to stamp apple shapes onto our cardstock using
red, yellow, and green paint. They added on an apple basket by cutting brown
construction paper into strips while giving them some cutting practice.
The group's other craft was making a
tie-dye apple. I put out red, yellow, and green washable markers on the tables
for the kids to doodle on their apple-shaped coffee liner. Once finished, they
were to use the spray bottles to spray their apple and make the tie-dye design.
Once a little dry, they could glue it onto a construction paper red apple. The
kids always enjoy using the water bottle sprays.
Fall is here!
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