Play Dough Apple Stacking Activity

This week, the Virtual Book Club for Kids is featuring Ten Apples Up On Top by Dr. Seuss. We tried an apple stacking activity with play dough and then compared different sizes.  Affiliate links are included in this post. Clicking on the book titles or covers will take you to Amazon.

Ten Apples Up On Top by Dr. Seuss

When you think of fall you might think of apples. And if you think of children’s books about apples, Ten Apples Up On Top! surely makes your list. It’s a classic. The three animals are trying to see how many apples they can stack on their heads each one stacking one more than the last.

Play Dough Apple Stacking Activity

We had to try stacking apples, too. I made some red play dough following my favorite no cook play dough recipe from The Imagination Tree. We created apples from the play dough by rolling balls. Then, I set up this little invitation to explore. Our work surface is freezer paper.

How many play dough apples can you stack?

We counted the apples as we stacked them. Sometimes the stack fell and we tried again.

We made smaller apples and tried to stack them as well. Could we stack smaller apples higher than bigger apples? This was a great opportunity to talk about size difference. We worked on vocabulary words like bigger and smaller. Which one of the apples is the same size as this apple? After the apple stacking activity, we also sorted the apples into different sized piles.

More Ideas from the Virtual Book Club for Kids

See more activities inspired by Ten Apples Up On Top!

2 Ingredient Apple Scented Play Dough Recipe from Rainy Day Mum
Preschool Learning Fun for Ten Apples Up on Top from Mama Smiles
Colorful Spin Art Apple Banner for Kids from Toddler Approved
Science in Motion Apple Game from The Educators’ Spin On It
Magnetic Names Apple Picking from Preschool Powol Packets
How to Trace Your Name With Fingerprint Apples from Big Owl Little Owl Witty Hoots
Fine motor Apple Graphing Activity from Extremely Good Parenting
Ten Apples Up On Top File Folder Game from Views From a Step Stool
Sequencing Number Words from Adventures of Adam
Apple Snack for Kids from CraftCreateCalm
Apple Color Mixing Science Experiment from Powerful Mothering
Apple Themed Pre-Writing Activity from Sugar Aunts
Ten Apples Up On Top Movement Activity from Still Playing School
Are Apples Round? Fun Ways for Exploring Shapes from Peakle Pie
Magnet Levitating Apple stacking from Teach Beside Me

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