Fall is in the air. Even here in the desert. We are getting so close to being below 90 degrees! I am ready for some cool weather. Every time we get a few clouds in the sky I'm ready to make soup and make some fall crafts. Since it's still too hot for soup, I spent my time making some apple preschool printables instead. Just click on the picture, and if all goes according to plan you should be able to just print them off and use them.

What's a preschool pack without a writing page?

You can either print this off and trace the words with pencil or crayon, or you can slip it into a page protector and trace with dry erase markers, so you can do it over and over again.

Counting clipcards are a favorite. Count the apples and clip a clothespin on the correct number. Great for practicing counting and number recognition.

Apple pattern cards for practicing patterns or for use with the counting pies below. Count out and place the correct number of apple cards onto each apple pie. You could also use red, green and yellow poms poms as the apples for the pies.

Happy Fall!

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I'm a little slow getting today's post up because I have been busy bottling apples. This is my first attempt at it. So far so good, except the smell of apples on my hands is a little overwhelming. It will be nice to have some yummy apples all winter long. I can already taste the apple crisp. Anyway, Sweet Girl and I have been fun playing with apples over the past couple weeks, and here is our concluding activity, the apple sensory bin! Probably not a big surprise since I obviously love and do a lot of sensory bins. There are just so many ways to do them, and they keep Sweet Girl entertained for awhile.

For our apple sensory bin I used black beans as apple seeds. I made apples out of sandpaper and bubble wrap, and threw in our felt apple bean bag and the pom poms from our other apple activities.  I wanted to have a lot of different textures for Sweet Girl to experience.

At first Sweet Girl just loved grabbing handfuls of the apple seeds and then letting them fall through her fingers. 

Later she started using a scoop. As she picked up the different apples we talked about their textures. We have had a lot of fun with apples, and now it's time to move on. I'm not quite sure where we are going next. Maybe pumpkins. Any suggestions?

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Today we continued our apple learning activities with apple tree one to one matching. One to one matching is a great pre-counting skill. I made a tree out of construction paper. Don't you love my artwork? I used red pom poms as my apples, and red mini cupcake papers to show where to put the apples.

I glued on five of these cupcake papers to help Sweet Girl practice counting to five. That darn number four still eludes us. As we played we counted and talked about apples and trees and the color red.

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This apple scooping activity was so fun this afternoon. I set out a small basket of these red and green pom poms and a cake pan. (It was supposed to represent a pie tin, but my pie tin is glass and I didn't want it to brake.)

Sweet Girl got right to work scooping the "apples" into the pie tin. We talked about their colors and about making pretend apple pie. She is getting so good at scooping things!

We pretended to eat the apples and make loud crunching sounds. This apple came a little too close to being eaten.

The apples went back and forth from the basket to the tin and back again. These apples kept us both entertained for about half an hour. It was a great afternoon. I am so excited now when we have time to fit in a Mommy and Me school activity. Life just gets so busy, but it almost always ends up being my favorite part of the day.

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With the start of preschool and Husband back to work (He works in education so he has the summers off. It's so nice!) I have been having a hard time fitting in Mommy and Me School. We still do activities and we play and go on outings, but it's hard to plan a specific activity and do all the things to make it blog worthy. I don't know how you working moms do it. I'm having to learn to let some things go and just do what I can do. With that said, here is our Mommy and Me School activity from yesterday.

Sweet Girl and I loved playing with the contact paper for our contact paper fall collage on Monday. I started thinking it would be fun if we could somehow make it into an apple tree. I have been wanting to start doing some apple activities to celebrate fall. I just wasn't sure how to make it work until I saw this cute pumpkin window cling from Kids Activity Blog.

To make my tree I cut out a treetop from green construction paper and then just cut out the center and replaced it with contact paper with the sticky side facing out. Then I taped on the trunk and stuck it on our back door. I cut apples out of green foam, I would have preferred red, but I had green on hand.

Sweet Girl loves apples. We talked about apples and pretended to eat them. We talked about green. I swear someday she will know her colors! We also counted them. When Sweet Girl counts she says "1,2,3,5,6." I don't know what happened to four, but we are working on it. 

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