A is for Apple Tree!

I watch our friends’ 3 kid­dos two days a week, so I thought this would be a great craft project for one of those days. But, I needed to make a few mod­i­fi­ca­tions to have it suit our sit­u­a­tion.  Any way you do this though, it’s sim­ple, cute, and requires few sup­plies:
Blue, Green, and Brown con­struc­tion paper
Wash­able Red Paint
Scis­sors
Tape or Glue
A pen­cil, pen, or marker (for trac­ing & embell­ish­ing)

To start, trace each child’s hands (using both hands with lower num­bers of chil­dren makes your tree look fuller) onto green con­struc­tion paper (very tricky to do with chubby 5-month old hands!), then cut them all out.  
For the big boys (both 3), I placed their cut out green hand­prints onto a plate and showed them how to dip one fin­ger in the red paint and “make apples” on their hand­prints. For the most part, this worked fine–we just have high apple con­cen­tra­tion in cer­tain areas instead of well dis­persed apples!
With the lit­tler ones (17 month old twins and a 5 month old), I dipped & placed their fin­gers for them.

Then, once the fin­ger­prints apples are dry, place them onto the tree trunk.  Add a few embellishments–children’s names & ages, extra apples, a lit­tle say­ing, or any­thing else cute & apple related.  We’re work­ing on the alpha­bet with the big boys, so we went with “A is for Apple Tree”.

Then, hang up your kids’ adorable hands & fin­ger­prints so every­one can enjoy their apple tree!