An Orange in January
Our First book is An orange in January My 5 year old picked this book. So How i came up with the craft was, I just asked my kids what they wanted to make. They said an orange of course :), and a tree. So we made one side of the paper an orange tree and the other side is a tree in the winter time.
Here is a List of materials we used
Paper any color
Glue
Orange paint
brown crayon
Q-tips
Cotton balls
Cotton rounds
Sorry I cant get it to rotate. I made the trees you can be more fancy or even use two different papers or even a bigger paper. Just work with what you have.
My two year old and five year old painting the cotton rounds orange so we can glue them on the tree later when they dry.
Now we are ripping up the cotton balls the girls loved this part.
This is my two year olds, finish product.
This is my five year olds, finished product.
We really enjoyed this book. My four kids just love oranges and it helped them to learn where they come from even when there is snow on the ground. Plus the pictures in the book where so colorful. My girls really enjoyed this craft also. They wanted to paint tons of oranges I almost couldn't get them to stop that part. With this craft you have two different textures the cotton balls give you a soft fluffy felling, and whose kids don't like to rip up things (I know mine do):). The cotton rounds had bumps on them which when painted looked a lot like an orange. I hope you enjoy this book and craft as much as we did.
Feed back is much welcomed
