Fall Fun

I did this art project this week in my Toddler class.

Apple 🍎 Pie if you do the cross over pieces and Apple 🍏 Crisp if you do the other 😋

Why?

It’s fall and apple picking season but also I wanted to incorporate different textures (the oats) and smell (the cinnamon).

When does an art project incorporate your sense of smell? In our class it may only be if your friend doing the art project has a poopy diaper 😯.  So cinnamon is my favourite scent and it was kind of like baking but not baking.

I used a tray, to keep the mess somewhat contained. We used a paint brush to put the glue on. I showed them how to do circles with the paint brush, to spread the glue, as if stirring the glue on. 

Ripped red paper was used as the apples. Sprinkle sprinkle sprinkle was how we put the oats on after another application of stirring the glue on again.  Then shake shake the cinnamon on.

Best smelling art ever!!!

One of my little friends really loved putting the oats on and shaking the cinnamon.

Within Montessori there is the Sensorial Area (learning through the 5 senses). I felt this art reinforced this aspect of the Montessori Method.