Not to be out-done by her brothers, Kaylee is in school as well. Home preschool with Mom that is! I purchased an online curriculum a couple of years ago and absolutley love it. It came with probably 1,000 printables and a yearly calendar with all sorts of fun subjects! (www.kidsparkz.com) I won’t be posting everything that we do together, but if there is a project that she espeically liked I will share it! And this was one of those projects!
We were going apple picking that weekend and so I thought that an apple theme would be fun to do before we went to get our own! She loved it.
I printed out a few printables, including this apple book. She had fun coloring it and putting it together. We read it over and over and then she “read” it to me a few times.
The book goes like this:
My Apple Book
I like to eat red apples.
I like to eat green apples.
I like to eat yellow apples.
I like to eat sweet apples.
I like to eat sour apples.
But I don’t like to eat THIS apple!
I thought she might like a fun little toy to go with it, so we headed upstairs to my felt stash.
I cut out (with pinking shears) two apple shapes from red felt, along with a stem and a leaf. I laid the leaf and stem on top of the two layers and sewed all the way around. Then I cut out a hole in the
center of the apple (through both layers) for the little worm to pop through.
For the worm: Cut out two rectangles out of felt. Draw a worm shape on the top piece, then sew over your drawing. Trim closely around the seam line. Stuff with batting, then sew up the bottom. Hot glue on some googly eyes and a little mouth if desired.
On the back side, I hot glued a strip of felt to make a flap. The worm slides under the flap. If I were to do this again, I might have made the apple a bit bigger and made pocket to store it in so that it doesn’t get lost, but this works just fine for us.
Kaylee was excited to share her book and little worm toy with Aaron when he came home from school. She told him the story and he thought it was hilarious when the little worm popped through the apple as she said, “But I don’t like to eat THIS apple!”
If you are interested in some free printables on apples, click here! I can’t share the download for the little book since it was part of my purchaed file, but it would be easy to create one of your own as well!
Jenny says
August 30, 2011 at 3:10 amThat is adorable and what a fun way to reinforce what she learned! Would you consider linking up with my linky party, Creative Me Monday? It’s open all week long. Here’s the link:
http://www.thesoutherninstitute.com/2011/08/creative-me-monday_28.html
Love your blog!
PDCScarbroughpage says
August 30, 2011 at 3:23 amCan you tell me the website that you bought the curriculum from? I am looking for one. Thanks!
Lorie says
August 30, 2011 at 12:36 pmSo cute! Thanks for sharing this idea!
FionaR says
August 30, 2011 at 5:51 pmThis is adorable! I am also looking for a good all-in-one preschool curriculum – can you share the name of yours or where you got it? Thanks! – [email protected]
Linda says
August 30, 2011 at 11:11 pmHi Bandy,
I am the felting editor for Craft Gossip and did a post on you cute apple, stop by and leave a comment :
http://felting.craftgossip.com/2011/08/30/felt-tutorial-i-like-apples/
Linda
Malea says
August 31, 2011 at 2:23 amSOOOO CUTE! I’m sending this idea to my kindergarten teacher mom! She’ll love it! Found you using the “next blog” button on Blogger. Glad I found you! 🙂
raising4princesses says
September 1, 2011 at 4:40 amadorable. Thanks for the inspiration. My 3 year old will love this. I’m repining! I started a link party at my blog and I’d love for you to link this up. I also have an awesome digital scrapbooking giveaway going on. If you’re interested it’s http://caribbeanmissionarywife.blogspot.com/
Daneilia @ Anchors Away says
September 2, 2011 at 2:58 amFun! My little one and I are always doing Felt Projects and L would love this cause she loves apples.
Evie says
September 2, 2011 at 8:36 pmWow…you are a busy, busy momma! This is absolutely adorable!
evie @ brown paper packages
Amanda says
September 2, 2011 at 9:54 pmOh i hope you’ll submit this to http://funfamilycrafts.com it’s totally adorable!
Hollie - TheSevenYearCottage.com says
September 3, 2011 at 5:30 pmSo cute!
[email protected] Daisy says
September 8, 2011 at 10:36 pmBrandy!
This is beyond darling! I pinned this and featured it on the blog today:
http://www.oopseydaisyblog.com/2011/09/wednesdays-wowzers-yes-its-really-thursday.html
Amy @ Positively Splendid says
September 10, 2011 at 9:32 pmAbsolutely darling, Brandy! I loved this project so much, I shared it in my Saturday Seven lineup this week! http://www.positivelysplendid.com/2011/09/saturday-seven-no-22.html
Susie says
September 13, 2011 at 4:06 pmCute!! I like the idea of a pocket. Is the flap necessary?
Karen @ It's the Suburbs or Bust- Yo! says
September 14, 2011 at 5:00 amgreat idea- I’m pinning it!
Betsy says
September 21, 2011 at 3:39 amThanks for posting, now following your blog 🙂
Carrie says
October 17, 2011 at 3:01 amSo adorable as well! Thank you for sharing this and linking to it in your Halloween pouches.
Kim @ The Educators Spin On It says
September 15, 2012 at 1:09 amJust found you from homeschool creations apple round up of ideas. This is so cute and I can’t wait to make it with my daughters. Thanks for sharing, we just finished A is for Alligator and it will be such fun to do A is for Apple!