Toilet Paper Roll Apples

Apple Supply List: 1 toilet paper roll, red, green & yellow paint, glue

Begin by cutting 4 rings out of your toilet paper roll.  3 will become your apples and the 4th will be cut up to create your apple stems.  Paint each ring.  We did 1 green, 1 red, 1 yellow.

Paint your 4th (extra) ring green and allow everything to dry.

Cut your extra ring into stem shaped pieces.

Glue your stems on the apples.

This activity came about because Cole's pre-K class started off the year with a unit on apples.  He had such a great time learning about and tasting all the different apple varieties so we used this as an extension activity to further enhance learning at home.

Book Suggestion: Apples for Everyone is a great non-fiction work that takes you from small apple bud all the way to buckets of fruit being harvested.  The vivid pictures and descriptive text quickly made it a favorite for us.

Toilet Paper Roll Airplane

 Airplane Supply List: 1 toilet paper roll, paint, piece of cardboard (cut in a pointed oval shape), black dots or scraps, scissors

 Begin by cutting slits in the side of your toilet paper roll and sliding your pointed oval cardboard through the slits.

 Cover the entire thing in a coat of paint.

 Glue on some windows and allow to dry.  Our windows were circle punch out scraps from another project, but you could easily use other scraps or cut them in different shapes.

Once dry, your airplane is ready to fly around the house.

Book Suggestion: Going on a Plane is an excellent book to check out if you're going to be traveling with young children on an airplane.  We brought it home from our local library the week before we all flew to Boston for our family vacation and it was a great way for Cole to prepare for the trip.