In addition to free play, this play dough invitation can be used for a variety of math and science activities. Math and Science with the Ten Apples Up on Top Play Dough Introducing the STEM Challenge Give them time to play with the items as they’d like and observe as they make their own discoveries about the materials. Once you have your materials on hand, set up is very easy! Just place the apples out next to your play dough and leave them out for kids to explore freely at first. They are a bit bigger but still lightweight, so they should work well if you are not able to find any locally.

Our apples are from Walmart, and they are about 1.5 inches in diameter.

Small artificial apples-You can use real apples, but you may not be able to stack quite as many apples.

Brown play dough (We scented ours with apple pie spice to give it an extra sensory touch.).

This is also a terrific book to use at home or in the classroom for a letter A week, apples theme, or book-based study like we have in our lesson plan set. She’s been reading it over and over again, so I thought we’d do some follow up activities to go along with her enthusiasm. Recently my youngest child learned to read Ten Apples Up on Top all by herself, and she’s very proud. I noticed this was a harder task for my 3.Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Pinterest Share on Emailįall and apples go hand and hand for us, so we always like to find some new ways to play and learn with apples this time of year. It was fun to see the difference between the two. I had my older preschooler try this activity out and it was very easy for him. When he got stuck on remembering the next number, we went back and counted starting from 1. Then we continued with 2, 3, 4, and so on. When we did the activity, I mixed up the apples and had my son find the apple with 1 on it and place it on his head.

I used the felt board that I shared how to make on this post. That way they could stick to the felt board for the activity. Then I printed off a picture of my boys, cut them out and glued them to a small piece of felt. I hot glued them together and added a small green stem to the top.

To prepare for this activity, I cut out 10 apples from red felt. At the end, everyone has ten apples on top of their head! We did this activity after reading the book so that my preschooler could practice counting to 10. I also wanted him to have practice recognizing numbers and putting them in order. The characters in the story are adding apples to the top of their head throughout the story. In this book, there is a lot of counting. I was inspired to do this activity after reading this idea from Buggy and Buddy. We put our own twist on the activity and it was a lot of fun! One of my favorite apple books is Ten Apples Up on Top by Dr. The letter we started learning about is ‘A’ and we are doing lots of activities with apples. Last week, Wes and I started doing preschool at home.

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