Up-Cycle your toilet tissue tube into a blooming fruit tree. As simple as this project is, it includes many sensory activities for young, growing minds:

Tactile- Finger paint the blue sky.
Scissor Skills- Cut the toilet paper role in half. Snip the construction paper to make the grass.
Fine motor- “Scrunching” the tissue paper to make the tree leaves.
Gluing Skills- Glue on the toilet tissue roll, grass, and tissue paper leaves.
Fine motor- Peel the paper off of the butterfly and sunshine stickers, then place them on the picture. Perfect!

Then use some of the information in this month’s Nature Net News to discuss fruit trees, how they’re pollinated and why they’re important to use and other animals.

Craft idea from Pediatric Occupational Therapy Tips blogspot.