Tuesday Tot Craft Time: Apple Crown

The first preschool drop in craft time at our library this season is one that we did there last year, but it is still a fun one.  My son made an apple crown in celebration of apple season and Johnny Appleseed's birthday.  They provided us with 3 different colored apple cut outs and 2 stripes of brown paper.

The kids colored their apples with markers.

This was my favorite apple that my son colored.

I stapled the two brown stripes together and then stapled them in the right places around his head.  Then I stapled the 4 apples around his crown.  This was a fun craft for the kids to do.  We are looking forward to the next one.

Apples for Teachers

Here are the 3 apple ornaments that I made for my sons' main teachers.  My 3 year old gave the one above to his teacher today.  The pattern came from Tasty Crochet.  I just modified it slightly to turn it into an ornament.  For the stem, I chained 40 stitches, slip stitched in the 9th chain (from the beginning), and single crochet the remaining 8 stitches.  For the leaves I chained 15 stitch, slip stitched into the first chain, chained 15 more stitches, slipped stitch into the first chain again, and bound off.  They turned out pretty cute.  The bottom two will be given to my other son's teachers on Monday.

Amigurumi apple and Mistletoe Ornament

I made another mistletoe ornament today. The pattern can be found in the post before this one. I used Red Heart Holiday yarn for this one. The other one I used Vanna's Choice yarn.

Even though they are the same patten and colors, they look different from each other.

I also made an amigurumi apple today. The pattern can be found at lionbrand.com. I thought it would be fun to do a sock monkey version of the Twilight book cover. Next time I'll try to have a darker filling. The white shows to much.