Continue your read, paint, cook journey through Europe and North America with the fruit from the crab apple tree with books, art, tea party guide, recipes, art appreciation and math counters too!

What people are saying already:

“I’m so excited for this one!!!”

“Looks amazing!""

“This looks like it’s gonna be so fun! And so perfect for Fall!”

“How fun! We love apples!”

This learning pack and adventure is perfect for kids 4+ and includes subjects such as language arts with tracing, reading, and poetry, art, coloring, science and has original watercolor botany life cycles, and Montessori 3 part cards. This printable has been created for you to use in your home or classroom, to learn about crab apple trees, and the different varieties found in Europe and North America. Mix and Match it with our other creative curriculum, such as our Masterpiece Essentials ABC + 123, The Masterpiece Adventures in England, and France which are soon to be released, as well as our Ireland and Italy Adventure Series.

What's Included:

• Books About Apples We Love + QR Code with Additional Learning Resources

• Masterpiece Passport and Stamps

• Crab Apple Life Cycle Poster in Color and Black and White

• Match the Stages of Growth Printable

• Montessori 3-part cards (cursive + manuscript)

• Different Types of Crab Apple Trees: 1. Malus Sylvestris (Europe) 2. Malus Coronaria (North America)

• My Crab Apple Life Cycle Workbook - Cover + Pages (11+)

• Poetry Copy-work: “The Apple Tree" and “Apple Blossoms" by Hattie Howard 1860-1920

• Note-Booking Pages for both poems

• Poem Word Search + Counting Worksheets, for both poems

• Crab Apple Tea Party Guide + Banner Craft + Art Project Frame Page + Crab Apple Crisp

• Plus 4 more recipes for baking with Crab Apples; Brown Sugar Pie Dough, Crab Apple Pie, and Crab Apple Jelly

• Art Appreciation of four Artists from Britain and France, including Willian Kay Blacklock, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Paul Cezanne.

Please Tag us on Instagram @build_your_masterpiece_class to be featured! I cannot wait to see your crab apple masterpieces! Enjoy building them. ~Alexandra

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Learn all about the Life Cycle of a Potato with the second Montessori-Inspired Unit Study Series called “Ingredients We Cook With” for kids age 3 to 12. Learn about the 6 stages of how a potato grows along with the history of the French Fry, and so much more with our 41-page PDF that will encourage an appreciation for how potatoes grow, plus enjoy counting and cooking with them! This Life Cycle is a companion study for the Adventures in Ireland #1, which also features the Irish Potato, Potato stamping projects, art appreciation, maps, flags and more. It also pairs wonderfully with The Masterpiece Numbers - Counting 1 to 30 Learning Pack, for counting fun with Potatoes, watercolor dots and number flashcards you can color in.

What’s included in this Life Cycle Unit Study?

• Curriculum Guide, Book Lists, Helpful Video Links and a special QR Code with Additional Learning Resources via our website

• Sprout a Potato in a Jar Experiment and Coloring Page

• How a Potato Grows Lesson Page

• Sequencing Activity

• The History of the French Fry

• 4 Awesome Potato Recipes

• Life Cycle of a Potato Watercolor Poster

• Life Cycle of a Potato Coloring Page

• 3 Part Cards

• 3-D Life Cycle of a Potato Craft

• Tracing + Coloring Pages

• Parts of a Potato Plant Coloring Page

• Coloring Pages

• Pp Potato Card

• Potato Counting Cards 1-20

This digital product was created for your personal use only. Books and props are not included.

Learn all about the Life Cycle of a Lemon with our fourth Montessori-Inspired Unit Study to add a blast of freshness into your science and nature studies with our 28-page PDF that will encourage a love for growing, counting, baking and cooking with Lemons!

What’s included?

• Curriculum Guide

• The Life Cycle of a Lemon Watercolor Poster

• The Life Cycle of a Lemon Coloring Page

• Sequencing Activity

• 3 Part Cards

• Tracing Pages for each stage of development, plus details on the stages.

• Lemon Quote Tracing

• Lemon Poetry Copy-work

• Design Your Own Lemon Tree Worksheet

• Lemonade Recipe for Kids

• Lemon Counting Cards 1-20

• Lemon Watercolor Dot Counting Cards in Yellow, pink, blue, green and orange

This study was created as a companion to our Adventures in Italy #6 Gardens + Lemons, so we added it to a special bundle of them both here.

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Books and props are not included. Mix + match this adventure with our other Life Cycles of Food, such as our Life Cycle of a Potato, or Cacao Tree and The Masterpiece Alphabet and Numbers Learning Packs, as shown in our photos (number flash cards).

Continue your #readpaintcook journey with our sixth Adventures in Italy with the Build Your Masterpiece Class. Within Adventure 6 we will be learning about the Renaissance gardens in Florence and the Lemons that grow there. The Villa di Castello is one of the oldest gardens, and was created in the 16th Century. It also has a collection of many different kinds of Lemon Tress, that have been cherished and cultivated over hundreds of years.

This Adventure is Lemon-tastic because we have also included an additional Unit Study all about the Life Cycle of a Lemon for you to enjoy as well as Lemon Inspired Art Projects that encourage the use of the 7 Elements of Art, including Parts of a Lemon Tree, Parts of a Lemon, worksheets, poetry copy work, recipes, crafts and more! We have also included a Spotlight on a special Beekeeper in Tuscany, who has invented a 100% eco-friendly Honey Jar made from Organic Beeswax. Take your Italy Adventues to the next level and continue your read,paint,cook journey today!

Learn all about the Life Cycle of a Cacao Tree with our first Montessori-Inspired Unit Study Series called “Ingredients We Cook With” for kids age 3 to 12. Add a blast of sweetness into your science and nature studies with our 39-page PDF that will encourage a love for how cacao grows, the habitat it grows in, plus enjoy counting and cooking with Chocolate!

What’s included in this Life Cycle Unit Study?

• Curriculum Guide

• Life Cycle of a Cacao Tree Watercolor Poster

• Life Cycle of a Cacao Tree Coloring Page

• Sequencing Activity

• 3 Part Cards

• 3-D Life Cycle Craft

• Tracing + Coloring Pages

• Parts of a Cacao Tree Watercolor Poster

• Label + Color Parts of a Cacao Tree Worksheet

• The Little CacaoTree Student Reader + Coloring Book

• Chocolate Quote Tracing

• Chocolate Poetry Copy-work

• 2 Chocolate Recipes

• Read, Paint and Cook Chocolate Activities for Valentine’s Day

• Design Your Own Tree Worksheet

• Cacao Seedling Counting Cards 1-10

• Cacao Bean Counting - An Ancient Mayan Currency

This digital product was created for your personal use only. Books and props are not included. This Unit Study is also included in our Chocolate Adventures + Life Cycle of Cacao BUNDLE.

What’s better than Chocolate? We use it in our baking and cooking for almost every holiday, but where does it come from? Come find out in our next #readpaintcook journey all about Chocolate! This Build Your Masterpiece Class Adventure will take you and your kids around the World to learn where chocolate comes from, how the Cocao Tree is grown, what type of habitat it needs to grow in, and where it is made, and how it spread across Europe in the 1600s, plus enjoy some fun hands-on activities such as chocolate taste-testing, reading children’s books all about cacao, counting with chocolate, vocabulary words about chocolate, the process of making Chocolate and so much more!

This unit study is great to enjoy during the month of February, and around Valentine’s Day, but also any time of year. We have also included a special Life Cycle of a Cacao Tree Unit Study with Montessori-Inspired 3-part cards, posters, counting cards, a sequencing activity, 3-D Craft, Coloring Pages, Coloring Book + Reader, Poetry Copywork, Tracing, Chocolate Recipes and more with our BUNDLED 70-page adventure for ages 3 to 13 and beyond! ( The Life Cycle of a Cacao Tree Unit Study is also sold separately).

What’s included in our Chocolate Adventures:

• Scrapbook Cover Page

• Build Your Masterpiece Class Passport + Chocolate Adventure Stamp

• Europe Coloring Map

• C is for Chocolate Lesson Plan

• C is for Chocolate Letter Page

• Making Chocolate Crinkle Cookies Lesson Plan

• Chocolate Crinkle Cookies Recipe

• Chocolate Crinkle Cookies Coloring Page

• Top 10 Countries that Produce Chocolate

• The History of Cacao, Chocolate Spreads Across Europe, The London Chocolate Houses Study Guides

• Chocolate Play Dough

• Chocolate Cloud Dough

• EXTRA Activities: Chocolate Taste Testing, Chocolate Fractions, and Chocolate Chip Counting

• Chocolate Writing Activity Plus 3 pages of Vocabulary Cards

• Different Types of Cacao 3-Part Cards

• ALSO INCLUDED: The Life Cycle of a Cacao Tree Unit Study - Find more details of the contents of this 39-page PDF Unit Study here.

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