Apple Thumb Prints - school art/mathematics lesson - Brief Article

Johnny Appleseed's Birthday

Practice numbers with this fun hands-on art activity.

Place numbered slips of paper in a bowl or basket and let each child choose a slip. Then ask your students to draw trees on thick pieces of construction paper and color or paint in bright green leaves. When the pictures are dry, students can stamp their thumb on a red (washable) stamp pad. Each student stamps apple thumb prints on her tree to match the number she drew from the bowl.

The apple trees can be used to play adding games. Call pairs or groups to the front and have them hold up their pictures, so that the class can add the numbers of apples. Afterwards, display all the trees together to make a number "orchard."

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