stART – The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree

We had the best time with our stArt project this week. The book I chose was The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree. It’s a fact-based book by Gail Gibbons, and I learned about it from Adventures in Mommydom. Anna enjoyed a book more than I expected – lately she had an overload on season-related books. In the book a boy enjoys different games and activities centered around his  friend, the apple tree. So I printed four tree outlines and made it a family activity. We each picked a season for our tree. Anna wanted winter first (she consults winter pages in this picture), but then she saw a new package of felt fall stickers from Target and changed her mind. I chose winter, and my husband did spring. Poor summer was left alone. I tried to convince Anna to do it on another day, but she was not interested. It was fun to work together using different techniques. Anna did hers entirely by herself. Her magical tree grows maple leaves, apples and pumpkins. As you can see, she will probably outgrow my artistic abilities rather soon, but she has to work pretty hard to get to papa’s level :)

 

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