Apple Stamping

After our fun hand­print apple tree mak­ing, I thought we should give apple stamp­ing a try. The boys (I watch a friend’s kids two days a week) loved it!!  

 You can cut the apples two dif­fer­ent ways for your stamps–if you cut the apple ver­ti­cally (above left), it will give you that “clas­sic” apple shape.  If you cut it hor­i­zon­tally (above right), the seed pock­ets in the core make a cute star shape.
Why not try both?!
I opted for red and green apples–seemed appro­pri­ate.  We used wash­able Cray­ola Kids’ Paints–I put of each paint color on a paper towel to act as a sort of stamp pad.  This seemed to help get off some of the excess paint. 
The apples were easy for the boys (both 3) to hold on to and place on the paper. In the spirit of not wast­ing all the apple on stamp­ing, there were only two stamps.  Green was the apple “star” stamp and red was the “clas­sic” apple stamp.  The other apple halves were snack after we cleaned up.

The boys loved mak­ing their stamp pic­tures and trad­ing off between the apples. Unfor­tu­nately, the apple “star” didn’t show up as nicely as I had hoped.  But, the pic­tures are cute nonethe­less.  Add a lit­tle title or other embell­ish­ment and it is a very cute dis­played next to the apple tree.

Another quick, easy, inex­pen­sive, and cute lit­tle activ­ity to do with the kiddos–perfect for this time of year or for teach­ing the let­ter “A”.  How cute would it be to make a big let­ter “A” on paper using the apple stamps to con­struct it?! (Am now ask­ing myself why I didn’t think of that a few days ago!)
Have fun stamp­ing!


(For more great activ­i­ties to do with your kid­dos check out: Tot Tues­days and Show & Tell)