ABC Fun A is for Apple: Torn Paper Art

Welcome to the beginning of our Apple Themed posts!

Autumn is the perfect time to explore apples and there are soooooo many things you can do. 

For my preschoolers ABC Book we worked on a fun

  Torn Paper Apple Craft:

* This is a great activity to help improve fine motor skills.  Children needs lots of opportunity to practice and develop those fine motor skills and this is a great way to sneak it in since kids usually find tearing paper fun. *

What You Need:

letter a cut out

red green and brown construction paper

yellow drawing paper 

glue

What To Do:

1. tear the red green and brown construction paper into small pieces

2. glue the red construction paper onto the apple except for tip (save for stem)

3. glue brown torn paper pieces to remaining part of a to make stem

4. add a green shaped leaf to stem

5. glue onto yellow drawing paper

6. add black construction paper seeds 

(we made them a star shape to match the inside of an apple)

To review writing the Letters A and a

The Littlest Diva worked on an Aa Do-a-Dot page

and a Handwriting Practice Page -
this particular one was a tracing page. 

I will also have her practice writing the letter independently this week. These type of handwriting sheets are review for the Littlest Diva.  She knows how to form most of the letters of the alphabet. I am really focusing on proper letter formation with her at this point to ensure she is writing them correctly. I am also introducing her to using the lines on the paper. Before this we just focused on learning how to write the letter and I let her write freely not worrying about spacing or lines. Now that she knows the letters and is writing well, I am helping her to learn how to form them correctly on the lines and introducing the idea of proper spacing between letters and words.

 Books:

Stay tuned for lots more apple fun!
Bern