{"id":3509,"date":"2011-09-01T17:33:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T21:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2011-09-01T17:33:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T21:33:20","slug":"curly-apple-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2011\/09\/curly-apple-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Curly Apple Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s September 1st!\u00a0 How did that happen?!?\u00a0 Just a few short days until school starts, and I’ll have to decide whether to continue doing themed projects during the school year – I have two enthusiastic votes for “yes”, but I’m not sure, realistically, how much time we’ll have once the big girl is in school all day…<\/p>\n

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Papers, glues and sharp cutting things.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today’s project was inspired by a couple of different ideas I found on the internet…which I didn’t bookmark.\u00a0 :(<\/p>\n

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Paper strips and paper curls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First, I cut strips of red and green cardstock, about 1\/2″ x 4 1\/4″.\u00a0 Then we curled those strips around a pencil to create little curls of paper.\u00a0 (Carolyn was very good at this part, Anna was more interested in uncurling the curls.)<\/p>\n

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Future tree trunk growing here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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She drew a very detailed trunk, with intertwining branches!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Gluing the trunk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then we drew tree trunks on brown construction paper – Carolyn drew her own and I drew one for Anna – then cut them out and glued them onto a light blue background.<\/p>\n

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Anna liked this bit a lot!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A cluster of leaves and apples.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, we glued the curls of paper onto the trees to make leaves and apples.\u00a0 I think the original project ideas I found had you gluing the edges to the paper, but both girls preferred the look of the curls glued on their sides.<\/p>\n

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Anna's curly apple tree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of course, this way they don’t stay especially well-curled, but they’re cute anyway!<\/p>\n

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Carolyn's curly apple tree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We glued some green strips to the bottom of the paper for grass, and I have no idea where they were going with the little yellow bits they cut out…?<\/p>\n

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A (small) curly apple orchard!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s September 1st!\u00a0 How did that happen?!?\u00a0 Just a few short days until school starts, and I’ll have to decide whether to continue doing themed projects during the school year – I have two enthusiastic votes for “yes”, but I’m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,60],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids-crafts","category-summer-fun","tag-apples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3522,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}