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Plants - fruit veg flowers trees activity ideas to share the names of flowers, trees, fruit and vegetables

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It's a great opportunity to bring this tasty fruit into your cooking, craft, and activity plans!

We have a few suggestions and would love it if you let us know if you have any more!

Cooking

Cutting, dicing & slicing apples can be great fun ...
Cook them slowly over a medium heat until 'stewed' and then serve with a shortbread biscuit or custard!

Art & crafts

Use apple leaves on your easels!
Have a light & dark green posterpaint available for the children to cover one side of the leaf.
Have a large sheet of paper already on the easel and press the 'painty' leaf onto - the leaf should make a great impression onto the paper!
Make patterns with green leaves and brown dried ones.
Use the leaves as collage materials,
Have a heap in the large tray and play hide and seek with animals that may like to hibenate for the winter and are just waking up ...
Apple, Stalk and Leaf outline template

Activities

Infamous apple bobbing - but use small fishing nets instead of heads!!
Apple sizes & colours matching , although Bramleys are green bring in a few red apples as well... have the children group, count and sort them into small dishes/trays.
Apple & cup races..... as for egg & spoon - balance an apple on the top of a small beaker and have the children walk a straight or weaving course....

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What about apple bowling! Empty plastic bottles for pins and (obviously) an apple to bowl with......with the added surprise that apples don't usually roll straight!
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will have to add this week to my plans for my lot - as preschool is called "little apples of bramley"!!!

although we are not where the apples come from
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A new Apple template has now been added on site for crafting & collage:Apple, Stalk and Leaf outline template
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Apple printing - slice apple accross instead of down and you should find a star in the centre - makes super patterns.

Apple tasting. Get as many different apples as possible, including cooking apples and cider apples. Make graph of how many children like each apple, use apple shaped stickers to mark graph.
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