Apples & Fall Tot School

Lovebug is 32 months old

This week Love Bug had fun with Apples and Leaves!!

We loved the apple unit we found Confessions of a Homeschooler and the Fall unit we found at

Homeschool creations. Both were great units.

We matched shapes on apple puzzle cards

We practice the letter "L" using oversized push pins and a cute "L" printable. We used a foam mat that has cork on one side for pushing the pins in.

Oversized pushpin. A new favorite. I found them at Walmart :)

We stamped the one that is different with our Do-a-dot stampers.....

Then Love Bug decided to stamp them all

We practiced direction...Love Bug's favorite was putting the leaf on the apple---"the apple is UNDER the leaf".

THEN WE HAD SOME REAL FUN!!

Inspired by this post

Her son was using a ball toy. I thought of using our Elefun game..but that didn't work so well. (she posted using an elefun later in the week, so I guess we were thinking alike)

But it was the most fun using a fan!

 This went on for a good 20 minutes.

 Love Bug decided to catch the leaves with the elefun nets. She didn't have any luck.

Tots Together

(Tots Together is a day each week a few parents of "home preschooled" tots get our kids together to socialize and practice being in a group setting while learning.)

We practiced the letters A and L with our magnets

and do-a-dots

We did size sequencing apples 

 We marble painted leaves. I cut out leaves with my silhouette sd and taped them to the pie pans

 put the marble in paint (the big marbles work best)

and this is how they turned out! I have no idea why she wanted to stick them to her shirt for the picture.

 We did apple stamping...which is like potato stamping. Cutting the apple horizontally makes the "star" in the center leave a great pattern.

 We used the apple peeler-slicer-corer on our apples

 had apples and caramel (Love Bug calls it "apple sauce"because its the sauce she dips apples in)

 I live in a forested area and was so looking forward to letting the tots play in the leaves. Then the forecast called for rain. The day before it rained, I collected a big pile of leaves in a garbage bag.

We brought in a tarp and an inflatable kid pool......

and had a blast!

 I hid pretend apples in the leaves and they had to find them

 Then they jumped and jumped and jumped some more!!

 It was a happy week of tot school!!!!