Much to do about Apples

As the Busy Bee’s finish up three weeks of apples, we focused on apple recipes and yummy these little bees can cook.
We brought out our apple pie play dough (see below for recipe)
We made applesauce, tasted apple butter, made apple pie and ate mini caramel apples ((all recipes below))
The Busy Bees enjoyed apples and we are moving towards comparing pumpkins to apples…so roll up your sleeves and prepare to get messy!!!

Sorting apples…The children used plastic tweezers and sorted red, yellow and green pom poms.

 

Painting apples….using red, yellow and green

Tissue paper apples…the children cut their frames, then they tore tissue paper into small pieces (working on fine motor) using was paper and lots of glue , lay the frames onto wax paper and over lap the pieces of tissues paper to cover all glue and all openings.  After it dries gently pull away from the wax paper.  The children added stems and a leaf and we hung in our window sill.  Beautiful work Busy Bees!!

 

Apple predictions….The Busy bees cut one apple in half and one we poured Sprite on top and the other is left plain….The Busy Bee’s made predictions of what they think will happen and now we are observing to see whose prediction was correct…..

Creating with play dough is always fun…The children were given appleand shape cookie cutters and the creating is unlimited….

Apple Pie Play dough

 1 cup flour

¼ cup salt

½ Tsp. vegetable oil

1 tsp. cream of tartar

½ tsp. nutmeg

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 cup water

((((I normally double this to make enough for at least three students to have plenty of dough to create)))

In large pot combine all dry ingredients and mix well.

Add in your vegetable oil and (optional) food color), water  and stir.

Cook over medium heat until dough pulls away from the pot and starts to become dry.

Turn off heat, cool and kneed…sprinkle a little more flour if too sticky.

Enjoy!!

 

 

Crock Pot Applesauce

4 lbs Tart Apples sliced thinly
½ cup sugar
½ teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup water
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Mix apples with cinnamon and sugar and put into crockpot.
Pour water and lemon juice over apples.  Cook on low for 6 hours or high for 3 hours.
Enjoy!!
((In the classroom I used the apple slicer to remove the core, then I removed the skin and allowed each student to come and count one to one six apples as they added them to the crockpot….)

 

Unfortunately it took way too long to make apple butter in the classroom so we had to purchase Apple Butter from our local grocery store.  I toasted bread for the students and we all tried apple butter with our toast….most of the children loved it!!!

Nothing says I love you more than Apple Pie….The Busy Bee’s worked hard on their apple pie and then we all had a GREAT afternoon snack!

 

The apple learning has been fun and endless…