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Counting Apples Busy Bag

Counting Apples Math Activity for Preschooler and Toddlers

Are you looking for apple preschool theme math activities? Let's have some fun counting apples with this hands on fall themed math activity! Here's how to play. This is a simple apple activity to use with your toddler or preschooler to encourage counting.  It focuses on one to one correspondence and number recognition. Plus your child can even work color recognition if you add green and yellow apples too. Think of it as a hands on apple worksheet for preschool that they can do ... Read more...

Filed Under: Kids Games, Math Tagged With: Apples, Busy Bag, Fall, Kim, Preschool, School Ages, Toddler

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Apple Pie Pockets Recipe for Kids to Make

Apple Pie Pockets Recipe for Kids

These delicious apple pie pockets are filled with juicy apples, cinnamon, and sugar and then wrapped in a pie crust. A fun fall recipe the kids can make with apples. One of my parenting goals is to help my kids learn to cook in our kitchen. This apple pie pocket recipe is simple enough the kids will be able to do nearly all of it themselves. This builds such confidence in themselves and provides them with a good foundation for following recipes in their future. Plus it's a delicious ... Read more...

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: After School Activities for Kids, Apples, Cooking with Kids, Fall, grade school, Preschool, Recipes

By Kim Vij

Magnetic Apple Math Game for Ten Apples Up On Top

Magnetic Apple math Game for the book Ten Apples Up On Top

This magnetic apple math game creates a hands-on experience for your child! They will come back to play it again and again as they learn about number recognition and number sentences.  Let me tell you the secret behind why. Here's how to make your own. This post contains affiliate links to Amazon Sometimes adding something as simple as magnets to a game and taking it to a vertical space draws in the attention of our preschoolers and bigger kids too.  That's ... Read more...

Filed Under: Math Tagged With: Apples, Book Activity, Dr. Seuss, Fall, Preschool, School Ages, STEM, Virtual Book Club for Kids

By Kim Vij

Apple Tree Craft Kids Can Make By Marble Painting

Marble Painting Apple Tree Craft

Create an apple tree craft by marble painting with the kids. Can you shake the apple tree to make those apples fall? Kids will have fun creating this apple tree by rolling marbles all around as they focus on eye hand coordination skills this fall. Are you ready? Apple Tree Craft Do you know the song Way Up High in the Apple Tree?  This is a playful craft idea that plays on the movement portion of the song.  Your child's doing to have tons of fun painting with marbles, ... Read more...

Filed Under: Arts Tagged With: Apples, Book Activity, Fall, Preschool, School Ages, Virtual Book Club for Kids

By Kim Vij

The Best Apple Books for Kindergarten

The best apple books for kindergarten and preschool

As the school year begins, this collection of the best apple books for kindergarteners and preschoolers is such a fun way to explore apple season. Apples can provide hands-on fun for kids and it starts with a good apple book! Here's our favorite apple books... Disclosure: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Apple Books for Kindergarten As the weather begins to cool and we head into fall, one of my favorite fall themes to use is apples. They are something familiar and ... Read more...

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Apples, Book List, Fall, grade school, Preschool, Virtual Book Club for Kids

By Kim Vij

Exploring Science In Motion with a DIY Apple Game

DIY apple game to explore force and motion science with preschoolers

Create a fun DIY Apple Game for exploring science with force and motion with your child. Here's how to make your own apple game tray! Affiliate links to Amazon used in this post. Ten Apples Up On Top Game Come join us for our Apple Themed Science Activity with your child as we welcome the season of fall.  In this activity, we're featuring the book Ten Apples Up on Top!  by Dr. Seuss. Ten Apples Up on Top! by Dr. Seuss Start off your ... Read more...

Filed Under: Science, STEM Tagged With: Apples, Book Activity, Dr. Seuss, Fall, Virtual Book Club for Kids

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Apple Theme Preschool Activities for Math, Reading & More!!!

Apple Themed Learning Activities for Preschoolers

75+ Apple Theme Preschool Activities! From apple literacy to crafts, social studies, sensory activities and more, build your apple theme learning unit! Apple season begins in July and continues through August as varieties ripen. Apples are a symbol of fall and back to school. They are also a FANTASTIC learning theme.   Here is a collection of teacher curated lessons from top parenting and kids activity bloggers around the web.  From apple literacy to crafts, social studies, ... Read more...

Filed Under: Kids Activities Tagged With: Amanda, Apples, Fall, grade school, learning activities, Preschool, thematic units

By Kim Vij

Apple Star Prints to Create Starry Night by Van Gogh

child made starry night by van gogh

Create your very own starry night painting inspired by the famous artist Van Gogh using items from around your house, including an apple core! (Disclosure: Affiliate Link to Amazon) I’m always trying to find ways to expose my children to various mediums of art and famous artists and pieces of art. This week we did a quick lesson using this adorable book called Touch  the Art: Make Van Gogh’s Bed by Julie Appel and Amy Guglielmo. Touch the Art: Make Van Gogh's Bed I ... Read more...

Filed Under: Arts, Reading Tagged With: Afterschool Express, Apples, Art projects, Artists, grade school, Kim, Literacy, night, Preschool, stars, Virtual Book Club for Kids

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STEAM Preschool Art Challenge: Fall Bug Habitat

Preschool Activities for STEAM #STEM: Art Challenge Fall Bug Habitat, a paper plate, clay, and paint nature educational craft for kids. Preschool art is filled with coloring, painting, molding, and creating. Most often, parents, teachers, and caregivers give young children the opportunity for some directed learning projects along side open-ended art exploration. Affiliate Links to Books STEAM Preschool Art Challenge For this challenge, we have used a variety of art mediums to ... Read more...

Filed Under: Arts Tagged With: Amanda, Art projects, Fall, Ladybugs, STEAM, STEM

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How to Make a Sensory Bin for Multiple Ages (sibling playful learning activity)

How to make Sensory Bin for Multiple Ages

Sensory bins are SO much fun. Let me show you how to make a sensory bin for multiple ages! Discover objects that give children the opportunity to explore in an open-ended way. They also provide opportunities for the children to practice their fine motor skills and with extensions can be used to teach matching, patterning, counting, sorting, storytelling, vocabulary, problem-solving, and specific skill recognition such as letters. How to Make a Sensory Bin for Multiple Ages If you ... Read more...

Filed Under: Kids Activities Tagged With: Activities for Preschoolers, Amanda, Fall, learning activities, PLAY, Preschool, Senses, Sensory, Siblings, Toddler

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