Blue, Green, and Brown construction paper
Washable Red Paint
Scissors
Tape or Glue
A pencil, pen, or marker (for tracing & embellishing)
Directions:
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
Then, hang up your kids’ adorable hands & fingerprints so everyone can enjoy their apple tree!
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