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A Craft a Day: A is for Apple

Welcome back to a new edition of A Craft A Day!

If you are new to A Craft a Day

A Craft a Day gives you five activities that you can enjoy with your kids, one for each day of the week. Most of these activities work well for preschoolers, but you may be able to adapt them for your toddler. If you want to learn more about the basics of A Craft A Day you can find them at a Craft a Day: Coming Back Soon.

I will post the crafts on Saturdays so you can use the weekend to get any supplies that you may need.

Are you Supermom?

Now I’m not supermom and I don’t expect you to be either. We don’t always get to each activity, sometimes life is just too busy.

Hopefully you may try one or two of these activities with me and my kids! You don’t have to do every single one. You don’t have to be doing preschool with your child.

I just hope to give you a resource for some great fun with your kids!

The Crafts:

Apple Smiles – Apple smiles are a fun and easy snack to create with your preschooler.

Armor of God – For this project we printed out each sheet. I created a head and legs from construction paper. Zane colored the sheets, put a face on the head and helped me cut out the shield. I cut out the rest of the pieces and had him tape them all together. This was tons of fun.
Apple Science – I cut open an apple and we counted the carpels and seed together. Every apple has 5 carpels and each carpel should have 2 seeds.
Apple Prints – After counting I put some paint on a plant and let both boys use the apples as stamps. Zane just loved swirling the paint.

Awesome Apple – I know another color and cut worksheet. But what was fun was we were just teaching Zane about Super Heroes and this happen to be the activity I planned for the day.

Supplies: Apples, Peanut Butter, Mini Marshmallows, Scissors, Crayons or Pens, Acrylic Paint or Finger Paint, Craft Paper

Be Featured

If you do any of these crafts and happen to take a picture or write a blog post about it please make sure and share your link in the comments. Also don’t forget to link the original crafter! I may feature you and your blog on the following weeks post!

A Craft A Day: Coming Back Soon

At the end of last year I was doing one of my favorite little series, A Craft A Day. But life got busy, as it usually does around Christmas, and the series had to be put aside. But I’m bringing it back!

A Craft a Day gives you five activities that you can enjoy with your kids, one for each day of the week. Some weeks may have a theme and some may not but either way we are going to have some fun together. Most of these activities work well for preschoolers, but you may be able to adapt them for your toddler.

I will post them on Saturdays so you can use the weekend to get any supplies that you may need.

ABCs

I’m working on a letter based curriculum with Zane, so each week will be based on a letter of the alphabet.

Week one will be all about the letter A. We will be doing lots of Apple activities. Week two will be the letter B and we will be doing butterflies and bug activities! And we will go all the way through the alphabet.

Subject of the Day

Zane and I will also be focusing on a subject each day.

Monday: Kitchen Day
Tuesday: Bible Day
Wednesday: Science Day
Thursday: Art Day
Friday: Extra Credit

You don’t have to worry about subjects but I figure when you see the activities you may see a pattern.

Are you Supermom?

Now I’m not supermom and I don’t expect you to be either. We don’t always get to each activity, sometimes life is just too busy.

Hopefully you may try one or two of these activities with me and my kids! You don’t have to do every single one. You don’t have to be doing preschool with your child.

I just hope to give you a resource for some great fun with your kids!

Be Featured

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My Valentine Countdown

My husband is leaving swing shift. (Can we say yay!!) His first day work a regular shift is Valentine’s Day. I decided we needed to do something fun to count down to Valentine’s Day and our new family schedule. After thinking about it for over a week I finally came up with an idea on Jan 31st.

I quickly pulled out what arts and craft supplies I could find tucked here and there (as all my good stuff is in storage right now). This first day was easy I pulled out some MnMs and put them in a snack bag. I cut some construction paper to make a bag topper. I wrote out with stickers and pens 14 days till we can have family movie night.

I wrote on each little container or bag ___ Days till/to…________ and I placed that many items inside the bag or container. Here are just some of the items I did:

13 days to more programming and study time (13 Extra Large Smarties)

11 days to more snuggle time (11 puffy craft balls)

9 days till we can have family game night (9 playing cards)

I had so much fun making these. Every day I slip one into my hubby’s lunch or some days just give it to him.

What did you do for valentines day?

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