Ten Red Apples
Here I have five apples. (hold up five fingers on right hand)
And here are five again. (hold up both hands)
How many apples altogether?
Why, five and five makes ten.

Eat an Apple
Eat an apple; (Bring right hand to mouth)
Save the core. (Close right hand in fist)
Plant the seeds. (Bend down touch hand to ground)
And grow some more. (Extend both arms out)

Picking Apples (Sung to the tune of Frere Jacques) (use when picking up legos, blocks, ect)

Picking apples
Picking apples
One by one
One by one
Put them in a basket
Put them in a basket
Oh, what fun!
Oh, what fun!

All Around The Apple Tree (Sung to the tune of Mulberry Bush)

Here we go round the apple tree, the apple tree, the apple tree
Here we go around the apple tree
On a frosty morning.

This is the way we climb the ladder
-pick the apples
-wash the apples
-peel the apples
-cook the apples
-eat the apples
On a frosty morning!

Here Is An Apple

(make circle with thumb and pointer) Here is an apple
(make circle with other thumb and pointer) and here is an apple
(Make circle with arms) and a great big apple I see
Now let's count the apples we've made
(reapeat above actions) 1 - 2 - 3 !

Ten Red Apples


(Both hands high) Ten red apples grow on a tree
(Dangel one hand & then the other) Five for you and five for me.
(Shake body) Let us shake the tree just so
(Hands fall) And ten red apples will fall below
(Count each finger) 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.

Apple Mural--Cut out a lg apple shape from a lg paper roll. Have the children do apple printing on it. Use a variety of sizes and shapes and colors - red, green, yellow. Tack apple print to wall and play a variety of games with the mural.

1. count the apple prints
2. find the print that is the largest/smallest
3. find the print that is the darkest/lightest
4. do any of the shapes look the same/different?

The Little Red House with No Doors and No windows and a Star inside
There was once upon a time a little boy who was tired of all his toys and, tired of all his play.
"What shall I do ?" He asked his mother. And his mother, who always knew beautiful things for little boys to do, said, " You shall go on a journey and find a little red house with no doors and no windows and a star inside."
This really made the little boy wonder. Usually his mother had good ideas, but his thought that this one was very strange. "Which way shall I go?" He asked his mother. "I don't know where to find a little red house with no doors and no window ." "Go down the lane past the farmer's house and over the hill," said his mother, "and then hurry back as soon as you can and tell me all about your journey."
So the little boy put on his cap and his jacket and started out. He had not gone very far down the lane when he came to a merry little girl dancing in the sunshine. Her cheeks were like pink blooms petals and she was singing like a robin.
"Do you know wher I shall find a little red house with no doors and no windows and a star in inside?" asked the little boy. The little girl laughed, "Ask my father, the farmer," she said. "Perhaps he knows."
So the little boy went on until he came to the great brown barn were the farmer kept barrel of fat potatoes and baskets of yellow squashes and golden pumpkins. The farmer himself stood in the doorway looking out over the green pastures and yellow grain fields.
"Do you know where I shall find a little red house with no doors and no windows and a star inside?" asked the little boy of the farmer. The farmer laughed too. "I lived a great many years and I never saw one." He chuckled, "but ask Granny who lives at the foot of the hill. "She knows how to make molasses, taffy and popcorn balls, and red mitten! Perhaps she can direct you."
So the little boy went on farther still, until he came to the Granny, sitting in her pretty garden of herbs and marigolds. She was wrinkled as a walnut and as smiling as the sunshine. "Please, Dear Granny," said the little boy. "Where shall I find a little red house with no doors and no windows and a star inside?"
Granny was knitting a red mitten, and when she heared the little boy's question, she laughed so cheerily that the wool ball rolled of her lap and down the little pebbly path. "I should like to find that little house myself," she chuckled. " I would be warm when the frosty night comes and the starlight would be prettier than a candle. But ask the wind who blows about so much and listens at all the chimneys. Perhaps the wind can direct you."
So the little boy took off his cap and tipped it politely to the Granny and went on up the hill rather sorrowfully. He wondered if his mother, who usually knew almost everything had perhaps made a mistake.
The wind was coming down the hill as the little boy climbed up. As they met, the wind turned about and went along, singing beside the little boy. It whistled in his ear, and pushed him and dropped a pretty leaf into his hand.
"I wonder," thought the little boy, after they had gone along together for awhile, "if the wind could help me find a little red house with no doors and no windows a star inside."
The wind cannot speak in our words, but it went singing ahead of the little boy until it came to an orchard. There it climbed up in the apple tree and shook the branches. When the little boy climbed up, there at his feet lay a great rosy apple.
The little boy picked the apple. It was as much as his two hands could hold. It was red as the sun had been able to paint it, and the thick brown stem stood up as straight as a chimmey, and it had no doors and no windows. Was there a star in side?
The little boy called to the wind, "Thank you," and the wind whistled back, "You're welcome."
Then the little boy gave the apple to his mother. His mother took a knife (AT THIS POINT , START CUTTING AN APPLE CROSSWISE) and cut the apple through the center. Oh, how wonderful! There inside the apple, lay a star holding brown seeds.
"It is too wonderful to eat without looking at the star, isn't it?" the little boy said to his mother.
"Yes indeed," answered his mother.
~by Caroline Sherwin Bailey

Numbered Apples--Make a felt apple tree and ten felt apples and place the tree on a flannelboard. Number the apples from 1 to 10. Let each child in turn choose an apple, identify the number on it and place the apple on the tree. When all the apples are on the tree, count them as a group.

Apple Tree Game--(Similar to above) Use red caps for apples in an apple tree. Use a permanent marker to put a number on each milk cap and one on each apple in the tree. Younger children will just match by shape (one-to-one correspondence).

Books:

• Apple Tree! Apple Tree! - by Mary Blocksman
• Apples, How They Grow - by Bruce McMillan

Individual Apple Pies--ready-made pie crust (the kind that comes packaged flat in the dairy case), canned apple pie filling--Have each child cut out two large circles of pie crust (using a large, round cookie cutter or a large plastic drinking cup). Put a spoonful of pie filling in the middle of one circle. Place the second dough circle on top. Use a fork to crimp the edges and pierce a few holes in the top to allow steam to escape. Bake in a toaster oven (or regular oven) 10-15 minutes or until brown.

Apple Honey Grahams

• Apples
• Graham crackers
• Peanut butter
• Optional: honey

Give each child a slice of apple and a table knife for dicing the apple. Spread a graham cracker slice with peanut butter. Add honey, if you like. sprinkle diced apples on top.

Apple Sandwiches

• Apples
• Peanut butter

Applesauce--For each quart of peeled and sliced apples, add: 1 cup water,

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 tsp. lemon juice
• 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
• pinch of salt.

Dried Apple Rings--Peel, core, and cut apples into rings. Put in salted water for 15 minutes. Dry for two weeks.

Apple Ring Sandwiches--Peel, core, and cut apples into rings. Spread with: peanut butter and bananas slices, or cream cheese and raisins, or granola mixed with honey or cheese spread or a slice of cheese. Cover the first apple ring with another apple ring to make a sandwich.

Apple Juice--

• 1/2 cup seeded apples
• 1 cup water
• 1 tsp. sugar

Have pictures of different varieties of apples.

Graph favorite color apples

Make caramel apples

Taste different types of apples (apple tasting party) have dried apples, applesauce, apple juice, fresh apple, apple pie--which do they like the best?? Graph the results

Make sequence cards for the kids - seeds, tree w/ flower, tree w/ apples, basket of apples, apple pie

*BOOKS

• Red Is An Apple and The Little Red House (both are teacher made big books from The Color Box)
• Blocksma, "Apple Tree! Apple Tree!"
• Bourgeois, "The Amazing Apple Book"
• Caseley, "An Apple Pie and Onions"
• Dodd, "The Apple Tree"
• Eberle, "Apple Orchard"
• Gibbons, "The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree"
• Gleitner, "Johnny Appleseed"
• Greenaway, "A Apple Pie"
• Greene, "John Chapman: The Man Who Was Johnny Appleseed"
• Heuck, "Who Stole the Apples?"
• Johnson, "From Appleseeds to Applesauce"
• Kellogg, "Johnny Appleseed"
• Lindbergh, "Johnny Appleseed"
• McMillan, "Apples: How They Grow"
• Maestro, "How Do Apples Grow?"
• Micucci, "The Life and Times of the Apple"
• Noble, "Apple Tree Christmas"
• Norman, "Johnny Appleseed"
• Nottridge, "Apples"
• Parnall, "Apple Tree"
• Rockwell, "Apples and Pumpkins"
• Scheer, "Rain Makes Applesauce"
• Schneiper, "An Apple Tree Through the Year"
• Selsam, "The Apple and Other Fruit"
• Watson, "Tom Fox and the Apple Pie"

Have the children estimate how many bites it will take to get to the core of an apple. They can count as they eat!

Have the children work in small groups to design their own 'Mini Apple Orchard". Fill a pan with dirt, twigs, toy tractors, green sponges for apple trees with red tissue for apples, or anything the children can come up with as ideas for their orchards.

Make Dried Apple Wreath--Cut a wreath shape from cardboard. Glue dried apples rings around the wreath overlapping them. Gather some dried flowers & leaves to fill in the wreath. Add a bow at the top if you like.

Read Apples on Top (a Dr. Suess book).
Apples on top project: (great for beginning of year to get to know names)
Cut out a skin colored oval out of construction paper -Color in face -Glue wiggle eyes and yarn for hair. Cut several pieces of 12x18 white construction paper in half On the top of each write "4 Apples on top of Jill" or whatever the child's name. Make apple prints (apple cut in half) to make the appropriate number of apples for each letter of the child's name.

Apple Poem
Apples big,
Apples small.
Guess what?
I like them all.

Apple Prints: To have them come out looking like apples and not just circles, cut the apples the day before you will use them for printing. Put the paint on a piece of paper towel in a tray. It becomes more like a stamp pad and the apples print better.

Anna Has
Anna has a big red apple.
Anna has a little axe. (Aussie spelling)
Anna has an old ship's anchor,
Hanging near the kitchen steps.
Why does Anna have an apple?
Why does Anna have an axe?
Why does Anna have an anchor,
Hanging near the kitchen steps? Apple smiles--Cut wedges of apple with the skins on. On one wedge, put peanut butter.Then put mimi-marshmallows on the peanut butter and cover with another apple wedge.

Apple Juice Finger Cubes--Pour 2 envelopes unflavored gelatin into a bowl. Add 2 cups boiling water. Stir until gelatin is dissolved. Add one 6 oz can apple juice concentrate. Pour mixture into a lightly greased 9"x13" pan and chill. Cut in squares to serve.

Pass the Apple (like hot potato)--When the music stops and the child is holding the apple, he goes into the "applepot" (the center of the circle). When all the "apples" are in the pot, we make applesauce, stir, add sugar, add cinnamon, taste, etc. Kids giggle a lot when they have to start jiggling and boiling.

A Little Apple Seed (Tune: Eensy, Weensy 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!

Apples Are Falling (Tune: Are You Sleeping?)

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.
(Use appropriate motions for actions)

Two Little Apples

Two little apples hanging on a tree
Two little apples smiling at me
I shook that tree as hard as I could
Down came the apples
Mmmm were they good!

Apple Tree with Sponge Painting--Draw a large tree on craft paper. Cut a sponge into round pieces and attach clothespin to the back of each piece.Give each child a clothespin sponge to dip into red tempera paint and dab on the tree to look like apples.

Print Apple Shapes--Set out corks and shallow containers filled with red tempera paint. Give each child an apple tree shape cut out of construction paper. Let the children use the round ends of the corks to print "apples" on their tree shapes. After the paint has dried, use the prints for counting.

Apples: One of the new Creative Teaching Press Learn to Read Books is "Who Will Help?" It is like the Little Red Hen but with a mouse picking apples to making the applesauce.

THE EARLY WORM GETS THE APPLE (Game)
"Sometimes seeing a worm in an apple isn't so bad--especially if you're the worm! Divide your group into thirds. Designate one group to be the worms. Pair the students in the remaining two groups. Ask the students in each pair to face each other & hold hands to represent an apple. Play some lively music as the worms move & wiggle around the apples. Then stop the music and direct each worm to find an apple in which to hide. Continue the game until everyone has had a chance to be a wiggle worm!"

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 appled dropped on my nose!

BAKED APPLES

• 12 apples
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 to 3 cup water
• cinnamon, if desired

Apple-head Grannies--Peel the apple leave the stem at the top. Tie a string to the stem. Hang in a dry area like a window in a couple of weeks the apples will shrink an wrinkle up like little old ladies. Make a body by putting the heads on small bottles (shampoo, dish soap etc.) Make a dress out of a piece of fabric. Use a small paper clip to make glasses. Hint: If you don't want the apples to be very brown, then dip them in lemon juice first.

Apple Magic
Perform a little science magic with this simple experiment. You will need a large bowl of water, a carrot & an apple. First, ask the children what they think will happen when an apple or a carrot is put in the bowl. Place the carrot in the bowl first; then remove it & place the apple in the bowl. What happens? Why? Explain to the children that foods like carrots & apples vary greatly in the amount of air they contain. Carrot matter is packed very tightly & is very heavy, making the carrot sink. The apple is not packed as tightly & has many air spaces, which allow it to float. Slice the apple & carrot for more observation.

Five Red Apples
Five red apples hanging in a tree (Hold up five fingers)
The juiciest apples you ever did see.
The wind came by and gave an angry frown (Fingers flutter downward)
And one little apple came tumbling down (One finger falls)
Four red apples, hanging in a tree, etc.

Red apples can be cut from flannel or construction paper and used as a flannel activity. Then cut a large green cloud shape for the top of the tree and a brown rectangular shape for the tree trunk.

Applesauce Sung to: "Yankee Doodle"

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

Look at the apple Sung to: "the mulberry bush"

Look at the apple I have found,
so fat and rosy on the ground.
Mother will wash it and
cut it in two--
half for me and half for you.

Apple coleslaw
In a bowl mix together:

• 1/4 cup mayonnaise
• 1/4 cup milk,
• 1 tsp. lemon juice

Finding Objects in an Apple Tree--Draw a large apple tree on construction paper (or use the flannel apple tree). Add leaves, apples, apple halves, apple cores, apple seeds, and worms. Children can find the objects at your request. Children can also be asked to place the apple on the tree, the worm under the tree,the leaves above the tree, etc.

Four Little Apples

Four little apples dancing in a tree, (Let four fingers dance)
They danced so long that they set themselves free. (Fingers fall)
They continued to dance as they fell to the ground
And there by some children these apples were found.
"Oh! Look at the rosy one! (Hold up one finger)
"It almost bounced!"
"I'll take the red one!" (Hold up second finger)
Another announced.
The third child laughed as he chose the yellow one. (Hold up third finger)
"I'll take it to Mother, ‘cause she lets me have fun."
The fourth child put the last one on a tray (Put fourth finger in palm of left hand)
And carefully carried the green apple away.

Read--The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree by Gail Gibbons. Children can wriggle on the floor and be worms. Make a large apple cutout from poster board or cardboard. Cut the hole large enough for children to crawl through.

Apple Juice Tasting--Compare sweetened to unsweetened apple juice, and if possible, compare fresh apple juice to canned or frozen. Discuss with the children how apple juice may be bought in different forms.

Apple match--Cut out apples out of green, yellow and red paper. Glue them on a file folder. then have the kids match them by color. Or you can draw shapes on the apples and they can match them.

Apple Tree ( Tune of 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!

Read the book Ten Apples Up On Top by Theo LeSeig (aka Dr. Seuss). Get some bean bags and practice balancing them on your head!

Apple Salad

• 6 medium apples
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 cup choppednuts,
• 1/4 cup white grape juice

Apple Counting Game---Glue a felt tree shape to each of five cardboard squares. Write a number from 1 to 5 under each tree. Cut fifteen apple shapes out of felt, To play the game, have the children take turns identifying the numbers below the trees and placing the corresponding number of apples on them.

More Books: Apple Picking Time by Michele Benoit Slawson
Young Anna is looking forward to the time of the apple harvest, a special time in which everyone in town takes part, and is determined to pick an entire bin of apples all by herself this year.

The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall
Two young sisters follow the progress of their apple tree through the seasons, from a bare tree in the winter, through the pink blossoms of the spring, to the apple picking in the autumn.

Applesauce by Shirley Kurtz
A family works together to make enough applesauce to last through the coming winter.

The Color Tree by Denise Bennett
The Color Tree is a magical fantasy for readers ages 3-8, in which lessons of color and color mixing are being taught. A little boy coming upon a colorless landscape realizes the world needs color and begins throwing magical apples at everything in sight. I Am an Apple (Hello Science Reader (Level 1)) by Jean Marzollo
An introduction to the life cycle of an apple follows the fruit's journey from a tiny bud on a tree to a large, juicy fruit, and is illustrated with colorful cut-paper art.

The Apple Tree That Would Not Let Go of Its Apples by Sarai Kozjak
A tree that is afraid to let go of its apples is persuaded to do so by two children and discovers a new life of feeling free and useful.

Apple books: Show and discuss 2 apples. What might be inside? Cut in ½ (vertically and horizontally). Discuss appearance (similarities and differences). Color bottoms of 2 paper plates red, green or yellow. With white sides facing, put together and punch holes in the left side. Tie with yarn. Open book and glue real apple seeds inside. Add a paper stem and leaf.

Paper trees: Rip brown paper (or paper bags) to make a tree trunk on another piece of paper. Use a sponge to make green leaves around the top of the tree. Make red fingerprint apples.

Apple butter: Peel, core and thinly slice 10 apples. Add ½ cup water. Cook until soft. Mash and measure pulp. Add ½ cup of sugar for each cup of pulp. Add 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Cook on low heat until firm and dark. Spread on bread.

Here We Go Round the Apple Tree (sung to Mulberry Bush)
Here we go round the apple tree, the apple tree, the apple tree.
Here we go round the apple tree so early in the morning.
This is the way we plant the seeds…
This is the way the little seeds sprout…
This is the way it grows to a tree…
This is the way the flowers blossom (bloom)…
This is the way the apples grow…This is the way the apples are picked…
Here we go round the apple tree.

Apple Banana Frosty

• 1 golden delicious apple, diced
• 1 peeled sliced banana
• 1/4 cup milk
• 3 ice cubes

Do You Know the Apple Man? ( sing to muffin man tune)
Do you know the Apple Man,
The Apple Man, the Apple Man,
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.
Oh, he has a bright red face,
A bright red face, a bright red face,
Oh, he has a bright red face,
And likes to play with me.
Oh, he has a star inside,
A star inside, a star inside,
Oh, he has a star inside,
And he likes to play with me.

APPLE ROLL CHANT

5 little apples in the bowl
1 fell out and started to roll
It bumped the table and hit my feet!
How many apples left to eat?
4 little apples in the bowl...
3,
2,
1 little apple in the bowl.

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