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Clay House – Tea Light Candle Holder

August 18, 2015 by Shellie Wilson

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This charming little clay house is a delightful craft project that is both easy to make and visually appealing. The design is simple and straightforward, yet the end result is quite stunning. These miniature light houses would make excellent gifts for the holiday season, and are also perfect for adding a touch of Christmas cheer to your own home decor.

While the tutorial for this project is not in English, the photos are clear and easy to follow, making it simple to recreate this craft regardless of your language proficiency. The step-by-step instructions are presented in a visually intuitive way, ensuring that even novice crafters will be able to create these lovely little houses with ease.

This is a fun and engaging project that is sure to bring a smile to the faces of all who see it. Whether you’re making these houses as gifts or as decorations for your own home, you’ll be delighted with the end result. So gather your clay, your tools, and your enthusiasm, and get ready to create something truly special!

Tea Light Houses.

Looking for clay? I 100% recommend Das Clay, I have been using it for over 20 years. 

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Apple Learning Activities

When apples are in season or at back to school time are great times to learn with apples. Whether you use real apples or just apple shapes, it adds a sweet dimension to your lessons. 

Reading and Writing with Apples

Because it’s the beginning of the school year, too, there are lots of apple crafts having to do with name recognition for the little kids. You can just take foam apple shapes and write letters or the children’s names on the apples, or make an apple tree name craft like this one from Simple Everyday Mom. The post includes a tree template and apple shapes to make the craft. 

Or practice individual letter recognition with this apple find the letter activity from PBS. You can also write letters on a tree shape and use paint or do a dot markers to cover the letters as you recognize them like in this idea from Growing Book by Book. The ABC apple tree from Stir the Wonder is another good one for recognizing individual letters.

Only Passionate Curiosity has a (paid) really cute read and writing mini book about apples, and DLTK has two printable mini books, one easier and one more challenging, about planting a seed and waiting for it to grow apples. Learn colors as you read the mini book I See Apples from Fun-A-Day.

And Look We’re Learning has cute printable apple shapes with common CVC words on them that you can play with in lots of different ways.

Apple Math

Fun-A-Day has a printable counting book featuring apples, so you can get a little math and literacy in at once. This one has the child add the apples, or you can use their 10 red apples book that already has the apples in the tree.

Natural Beach Living has printable counting apple cards as well as apple count and clip cards you can use for practicing one to one correspondence (you can also use beads or other manipulatives instead of clips if you want).

Use paper plate apples (and a real apple) to explain fractions to kids with this idea from Crafty Kids at Home.

Learn to count to ten and get some fine motor skill practice along the way with the golf tee ten frame from Fantastic Fun and Learning.

Apple Science 

Learn about the life cycle of the apple and much more with this set of (paid) printables from Simple Everyday Mom.

Creative Family Fun has a great set of apple science experiments. Make an apple volcano, try different ways to preserve apples, make apple boats and more. And of course you’ll want to have an apple taste test or explore what happens when you add heat to apples (apple pie or apple sauce!).

And check out this great apple investigation activity for little kids from Early Learning Ideas, which shows kids lots of different ways to measure and classify real apples based on their color, weight, size and more. (Includes paid resources)

More Apple Learning

Get a great apple unit study for preschoolers and kindergarten from Real Life at Home. Every Star is Different has a Montessori-inspired preschool apple unit with free printables (hers as well as links to others). 

You can find more unit studies and activity ideas from Natural Beach Living and How Wee Learn.

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