Apples Theme UPDATED

Apples Theme

TALK:

Show apple/caterpillar Puppet  or bring in a couple real apples or even use laminated clip art and ask if they know what they are ? We are going to talk about apples today in ours stories- has anyone been to an orchard for apples yet? Do they come in different colors?- show examples of red, yellow and green apples out of cardstock.

 

READ:

Ten red apples up on top By Dr. Seuss (relates to craft)

 I eat apples in the fall By Mary Lindeen (simple nonfiction to introduce your topic)

Apples and Robins By Lucie Felix

Pick a circle, gather squares: a Fall Harvest of Shapes By Felicia Sanzari Chernesky

From Apple Trees to Cider Please By Felicia Sanzari Chernesky

We harvest apples in the fall By Rebecca Felix

Ten red apples By Pat Hutchins

The Apple Pie Tree By Zoe Hall

Tucker’s Apple Dandy Day

Dumpy’s Apple Shop By Julie Andrews Edwards

Apple Countdown By Joan Holub

Apple By Nikki McClure

Apple Pie ABC By Alison Murray

Apple Farmer Annie By Monica Wellington

 

PLAY/ GAME: (use to break up stories and songs)

Go on an Apple Hunt (use cardstock colored apples – 3 colors) and scotch tape them to the walls around the room .

• Release them to go on a hunt-
• Have them bring them back to you
• Count the apples together as a group using the felt board we taped them up on the board or wall space.
• You can ask Q’s? what size apple? What Colors do you see?-  Can you find me a red, yellow, green? How many apples did we find?  Let’s count

Apple Science Activity 

Apple 5 Senses Science Activity Printable 

Apple Number Puzzles  

Apple Science Experiment

WRITE:

Coloring sheet apple trees 

ten apples up on top coloring 

SING:

If your happy and you know it (intro song)

Clap you hands, stomp your feet, shout hooray!

Falling Apples

(To the Tune of "London Bridge is Falling Down")

  See The Apples Falling Down (Use Arm Motions, Raise hands in air)
Falling down, Falling Down
See The Apples Falling Down
Down To The Ground
Pick The Apples And Throw Them Up
Throw Them Up, Throw Them Up
Pick The Apples And Throw Them Up
Up To The Sky

Credit Everything Preschool

 

Apple Surprise

Way up High in the apple tree
A little brown worm smiled at me
I winked my eye and what do you suppose
A shiny red apple dropped on my nose! 

 Credit Everything Preschool

 

 

Applesauce

(Sung to: Yankee Doodle) 

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  Peel an apple, cut it up,
cook it in a pot, When you taste it
you will find, it's applesauce you've got!

Credit Everything Preschool

 

My Apple Tree

Pick an apple off my tree
Pick an apple off my tree
Pick an apple off my tree
Pick it for both you and me

Pick two apples off my tree
Pick two apples off my tree
Pick two apples off my tree
Pick them both for you and me

Pick three apples off my tree
Pick three apples off my tree
Pick three apples off my tree
Pick them all for you and me and he
Pick some apples off my tree
Pick some apples off my tree
Pick some apples off my tree
Pick them all for you and me

Credit Everything Preschool 

 

The Apple Seed

Once a little apple seed was planted in the ground
Down came rain, falling all around.
Out came the sun as bright as it could be
And that little seed
it grew up to be an apple tree

 Credit Everything Preschool

 

Apples Are Falling

(Sung to: Are You Sleeping?)

Credit Everything Preschool

Apples are falling, apples are falling
From the tree, from the tree.
Pick up all the apples, pick up all the apples,
One. two, three; one, two,. three.

Apple Tree High In The Sky

Way up high in an apple tree (point)
two big apples smiled down at me (Put fingers on cheeks make smile)
I shook that tree as hard as (shake body)
I could and Down (shout) came the apples
Mm-mm, they were Good (Say like campbells soup ad)

 Credit Everything Preschool

 

Eat An Apple

Eat an apple (Pretend to eat fist)
Save the core (Put one hand in the other)
Plant the seeds (pretend to plant seeds)
And grow some more (make tree shape over head) 

 Credit Everything Preschool

 

Do you know the apple man?

(Sung to: The Muffin Man)
Oh, do you know the apple man,
the apple man, the apple man?
Oh, do you know the apple man
who likes to play with me?

Oh, he has a great big smile,
a great big smile, a great big smile,
Oh, he has a great big smile
and likes to play with me.

 Credit Everything Preschool

Apples

(Sung to: twinkle twinkle)
Apple, apple tree so tall, I can hardly wait till fall!
When your apples I can pick, Fill my basket, eat them quick.
Apple, apple tree so tall, I can hardly wait till fall!

Apple, apple tree so fair, What do I see growing there!
Green and round and plump and sweet, Soon they will be good to eat.
Apple, apple tree so fair, What do I see growing there! Credit Everything Preschool

 

A Little Apple Seed

(Sung to: Itsy, Bitsy Spider)
Once a little appleseed was planted in the ground
Down came the raindrops, falling all around.
Out came the big sun, bright as bright could be
And that little apple seed grew to be an apple tree! 

 Credit Everything Preschool

# 5 Jim Gill green cd-- Toe Lego Knee

#4 Freeze Dance By Greg and Steve (Kids in motion CD) use colored scarves 

# 3 Cool Bear Hunt from Silly Songs by Dr. Jean (gobble up candy in candy factory, swim across peanut butter river, wiggle in jello swamp, click pretend flashlight on and  pretend to go in cave)

#10 from Laurie Berkner – I want to dance—spin, walk backwards, paint the sky with scarves (use colored scarves)

#4 Clap your hands – wee sing CD

PLAY: 

Use the parachute with kids and parents 10 minutes if they need to move around or if there is extra space before craft time

• Lift up with kids holding handles say peek a boo
• Put it down to the ground again
• Life high so kids can go under
• Cover shoes/toes with parachute
• Have kids lay on their backs with belly facing parachute and see if it touches their belly
• Walk in a circle holding the handles
• Have kids help put a couple of balls on the parachute each and shake them up like popcorn

 

CRAFT:

Ten Apples Printable

 Use finger print with red paint and give the animals on the counting worksheet 1-10 apples up on top of their heads.

 Craft supplies:

tablecloths
Babywipes wipe hands or if there is a bathroom nearby they can use sink
Q-tips or fingerprint to make apples
Red paint on paper plates
Worksheet with animals

Fizzy apple Art   

Apple Tree Playdough activity with FREE printable

Puffy Paint Caramel apples

Torn paper apple Craft