It's back to school time and we can make it fun by creating colorful backpacks, pencils, crayons, groovy buttons, pop-up playgrounds and cool community posters! We can look forward to the school food too! It's Apple picking time!
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Now is a great time to learn about apples and the life cycle of an apple!
Apple Life Cycle Book!
Perhaps we can go apple picking and select some apples for the teacher!
Ten Apples in a Basket!
The leaves outside are changing color! Fall is around the corner! Let's create some fall trees of our own!
Fall Trees in 3D Mode!
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!
Supplies: One Paper plate, scissors, crayons/markers, glue/tape, one ice cream stick, cut out of an apple tree, construction paper and anything else of your preference.
Instructions to follow later:
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Now is a great time to learn about apples and the life cycle of an apple!
Apple Life Cycle Book!
Supplies Used: Red construction paper (yellow or green is fine too), white paper, green paper, brown paper, pink paper, crayons/markers, and glue/tape.
Instructions:
1. Cut out 4 apple shapes from red paper (or yellow or green). Fold them in half and then Attach them together following the directions in the link below:
http://www.hellowonderful.co/post/MAKE-A-3D-PAPER-APPLE-BOOK-CRAFT
The apple shapes will be attached in a way so that you have a book that stands up and has pages.
2. Cut out 8 semi circles and attach onto each page of the apple. These will be the core of the apple.
3. Decide which page of the apple is the title page. Cut out a few brown seed shapes and attach onto the next page after the title page. These will be the seeds.
4. Cut out a tree shape with brown paper for the bark and green paper for the leaves. Attach onto the page after the seeds page.
5. Cut out a bud shape from brown paper and pink paper and attach onto the page after the tree.
6. Cut out small flowers from pink paper and attach onto the page after the bud page.
7. Attach another tree shape onto the next page and draw pink blossoms onto the top leaves of the tree or the green part of the tree.
8. Attach another paper tree onto the next page and draw red apples on it.
9. Cut out a small basket shape and attach onto the last page and draw red apples onto or on top of the basket. Now you have the life cycle of the apple on each page.
Enjoy the apple life cycle books below created by the children at the library!
http://www.hellowonderful.co/post/MAKE-A-3D-PAPER-APPLE-BOOK-CRAFT
The apple shapes will be attached in a way so that you have a book that stands up and has pages.
2. Cut out 8 semi circles and attach onto each page of the apple. These will be the core of the apple.
3. Decide which page of the apple is the title page. Cut out a few brown seed shapes and attach onto the next page after the title page. These will be the seeds.
4. Cut out a tree shape with brown paper for the bark and green paper for the leaves. Attach onto the page after the seeds page.
5. Cut out a bud shape from brown paper and pink paper and attach onto the page after the tree.
6. Cut out small flowers from pink paper and attach onto the page after the bud page.
7. Attach another tree shape onto the next page and draw pink blossoms onto the top leaves of the tree or the green part of the tree.
8. Attach another paper tree onto the next page and draw red apples on it.
9. Cut out a small basket shape and attach onto the last page and draw red apples onto or on top of the basket. Now you have the life cycle of the apple on each page.
Enjoy the apple life cycle books below created by the children at the library!
Perhaps we can go apple picking and select some apples for the teacher!
Ten Apples in a Basket!
Supplies: Brown construction paper, red paper, yellow paper, green paper, crayons/markers, glue/tape and stickers.
Instructions:
1. Cut out a basket shape from brown construction paper. Cut out an arch shape for the handle of the basket and attach it onto the top of the basket so that you can hold the paper basket shape by the handle.
2. If you wish, color in a design onto the basket.
3. Cut out apple shapes. Attach the apple shapes anywhere onto the basket.
4. Decorate the apples and baskets with stickers.
Enjoy the baskets of apples below created by the children at the library!
The leaves outside are changing color! Fall is around the corner! Let's create some fall trees of our own!
Fall Trees in 3D Mode!
Supplies: One letter-sized sheet of light colored construction paper, brown paper, small pieces of paper in Autumn colors (yellow, gold, red, orange, etc.), leaf shape foam stickers, crayons/markers, glue/tape and stickers.
Instructions:
1. Lay a light colored letter-sized sheet of construction paper on a flat surface in a vertical direction.
2. Cut a tree trunk shape from brown paper and attach onto the flat sheet of construction paper.
3. To create the 3D branches, cut strips from brown paper. Bend each strip into a round or semi-circle shape with the ends of each strip bent in. Attach the strips of paper along the top of the tree trunk next to each other with each of the bent ends of the strips attached via glue/tape.
4. Cut out small pieces of paper of different fall colors, such as red, orange, gold, etc. Cut the pieces into the shape of leaves.
5. Attach the leaves onto the bent strips of paper or 3D branches.
6. If you wish, color in a sun, grass and adorn with stickers of your preference.
Enjoy the 3D fall trees below created by the children at the library!
I see an acorn! A squirrel is collecting the acorns! Let's make a squirrel with an acorn and soft tail!
Squirrels with Acorn Figurine!
Apples, Pumpkins and Acorns all get along well together for the fall season! Imagine an apple and pumpkin swinging together in a tree!
Swinging Apple and Pumpkin in a Card!
Squirrels with Acorn Figurine!
Supplies: Brown construction paper, fabric, one small cardboard tube, an outline or cutout of an acorn, crayons/markers, google eyes, glue/tape and anything else of your preference for decoration.
Instructions:
1. Cut out a squirrel figure from brown construction paper including the tail. If you need to or wish, you may cut out feet and arms/paws for the squirrel separately and attach them onto the body.
2. Draw a face on the front of the squirrel's head and attach google eyes on it if you have them.
3. Cut out a piece of fabric and attach onto the tail to make it feel soft.
4. Color in a picture of an acorn or print out a colored picture of an acorn and attach onto a small cardboard tube. Attach the tube with the acorn on it on the front belly of the squirrel and make sure the acorn is showing in the front.
5. If the arms of the squirrel are long enough, wrap them around the tube so that it looks as if the squirrel is holding onto the tube with the acorn on it.
Enjoy the squirrel figurines below created by the children at the library!
Apples, Pumpkins and Acorns all get along well together for the fall season! Imagine an apple and pumpkin swinging together in a tree!
Swinging Apple and Pumpkin in a Card!
Supplies: One letter sized piece of card stock folded in half, orange paper, red paper, yellow paper, a picture of an acorn, scissors, glue/tape, google eyes, string, a long thin piece of cardboard, hole puncher and crayons/markers.
Instructions:
1. Stand up the folded piece of card stock in a vertical position.
2. Cut out a pumpkin from orange paper and cut out legs for it. Cut out an apple from red paper and cut out legs for it. Cut out an arm for each fruit.
3. Draw faces on the apple and pumpkin and attach the legs and arm to each of them. Stick google eyes onto each of them. Attach them both onto the center of a thin strip of cardboard.
4. Using a hole punch, punch a hole on each end of the card stock in the middle of the edges. Place each end of the cardboard strip through the each hole. The pumpkin and apple should be sitting on the strip with an arm held out.
5. Make a loop in the middle of a string and attach the loop onto the top of the card stock above the apple and pumpkin. Let each piece of string dangle from the loop or knot. Attach each piece of hanging string onto the hand of the apple and of the pumpkin so it looks as if the apple and pumpkin are on the swing together and each holding onto a string with one hand.
6. Cut out leaves from red, yellow, orange and brown paper and adorn on the card stock around the apple and pumpkin.
7. Color in a paper acorn and attach under the apple and pumpkin.
8. Color in a sun and grass.
Enjoy the fall cards below created by the children at the library!
It's a good time to eat healthy in school to thrive in the classroom and beyond!
School Lunch Trays!
School Lunch Trays!
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Instructions:
1. Place a letter-sized piece of card stock flat on a table or any even surface. This will be your lunch tray.
2. Cut out squares, circles and rectangles from card stock. Attach them onto the tray. This will be the indentations for the food.
3. Cut out a triangle and color it in to resemble pizza or any slice of pie. Place the slice onto any indentations on the tray.
4. Cut out orange slices from orange paper and place on another part of the tray. You can cut out any fruit slices you wish to use from paper of any color.
5. Draw brown dots onto a tan or off-white circle and attach onto the tray. This can be a chocolate chip cookie.
6. Crumple up pieces of green and red tissue paper and attach onto another part of the tray. This can be a salad.
7. Cut out a milk carton shape from card stock and stand it up onto the tray.
8. Cut out an image of a knife and fork and spoon as well and attach onto the tray.
Enjoy the lunch trays below designed by the children at the library!
Wow, it's exciting to learn about forest animals during the fall term of the school year!
Forest Animals Diorama!
Supplies Used: Paper towel tube, forest animal cut outs, tissue paper, foam leaf stickers, one letter-sized piece of card stock, crayons/markers, scissors, hole puncher and glue/tape.
Instructions:
1. Cut a paper towel tube in half and cut the other half up into strips. The half of a tube will be the tree trunk and the strips will be the branches.
2. Using a hole puncher, punch a hole near one end of the trunk and use scissors to make the hole bigger.
3. Attach the tube and strips on top of the tube onto the card stock. This should resemble a tree with branches.
4. Color in cut outs of forest animals and attach them onto or around the tree and branches. The forest animals should be a bear, owl, fox, squirrel, mole and any other animals that live in the forest.
5. Adorn the tree with tissue paper of fall colors and foam leaf stickers. Use green tissue paper for grass below the tree.
6. Color in a sun in the sky and anything else of your preference.
Enjoy the forest animal dioramas below created by the children at the library!
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