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Sticky Apple Tree

October 14, 2014 by Emma Edwards 2 Comments

After creating our Sticky Christmas Tree last year I vowed I would avoid making another tree with contact paper. I have a love hate relationship with contact paper! I love the possibilities it provides but hate setting it up. Somehow I always manage to get tangled up in the contact paper – it appears to be quite a skill. However, I wanted to make Adam an apple tree – specifically a sticky apple tree.  I realised there was no getting away from using contact paper.

I immediately came across the same problem I’d had when making our Sticky Christmas Tree – I didn’t have any large sheets of  green paper. This time I didn’t want to wait for paint to dry so used green Duck Tape instead. I laid strips of the green Duck Tape onto a large piece of paper and cut out a tree shape.  I used sellotape to stick the contact paper on top of the Duck Tape so that the sticky side was facing out. For the trunk I used wood-style self adhesive vinyl roll from PoundLand. I found a selection of different sized red and green pom poms to use for the apples and placed them in a basket at the bottom of the tree.

Adventures of Adam making the sticky apple tree

 As soon as I gave Adam the basket of apples he immediately started sticking them to the contact paper. In order to make the apple pom poms stick he had to push them quite hard but he soon mastered the technique.

Adventures of Adam Sticky Apple Tree

Adam preferred to take the apple pom poms off of the tree, just as he had liked  taking off the cotton wool when he did the Sheep Window Art activity. He tried to see how many apples he could ‘pick’ at once. As with all of our window activities we left the apple tree up for several days. The contact paper didn’t loose its stickiness and the self adhesive vinyl roll didn’t leave a mark on the glass.

Adventures of Adam Apple toddler play

 Equipment:

* Window or patio door

* Green Duck Tape (affiliate link)

* Large white paper

* Contact paper/ Sticky Back Plastic (affiliate link)

* Sellotape

* Wooden self adhesive vinyl roll

* Variety of red and green pom poms

* Basket

 

Adam was 2 years and 5 months old.

 

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Filed Under: Independent Play Activity, Play Activities, Some time required Tagged With: Contact Paper, DIY activities, Duck Tape, Fine Motor Activities, Independent Play Activities, Pom poms, Window activity

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  1. jenny says

    October 17, 2014 at 7:55 pm

    I love crafting with contact paper, this looks so much fun! Have Pinned.

    Reply
    • Emma Edwards says

      October 20, 2014 at 6:31 pm

      I am still trying to find a happy medium with contact paper. I love what you can do with it but I seemed to get into a sticky mess whenever I go near it! One day!!!!

      Reply

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During a difficult pregnancy suffering from Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) Emma vowed to make every day an adventure once she had recovered. Adventures of Adam is the outcome of completing a 100 day play challenge with Adam as part of that promise. Emma has a section dedicated to HG friendly play activities so that Mums can still be part of their children’s play whilst they are ill.

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