A is for Apple

Circle Time

Apple Songs and Stories, plus Apple Books.

Activities
Apple Pie Scented (cinn and nutmeg) Playdough
Coin Slot
Di-Cut Apples in 3 colors to Sort
Apple stickers and a Tree print-out

Felt Board
Alphabet letters

Art Study
Red Apple by Roy Litchtenstein

Snack
Apple Slices, of course. As well as Apple juice.

Arts and Crafts
Apple Prints

Cooking
Applesauce, and Apple Pie

Field Trip
The Apple Orchard!!

Great Apple Books

A New House For Mouse by Peter Horacek

Mouse has found a red apple, but it wont fit in her house so she must go in search for another. As mouse goes from friend to friend, munching on her apple and looking for a roommate, the bright collage adn water color illustrations and die-cut holes leading from page to page, had us enthralled.


How To Make An Apple Pie and See The World by Marjorie Priceman

Whimsical watercolor illustrations depict a young girl who wants to make an apple pie, but the market is closed! You then follow her all around the world, in various forms of transportation, as she collects the ingredients needed for her pie. A very fun read.


Apples, Apples, Apples by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

I have always loved Wallace's illustrations. The bold colors and uncluttered texture of her very simple cut-outs are lovely. This book follows a bunny family as they make a family trip to the apple orchard and hides a ton of apple-facts without ever missing the rhythm of the story, including all the different parts of an apple when the farmer cuts one in half. It also includes instructions for making apple prints, applesauce, and an apple song to sing.



Ten Apples on Top by Dr Seuss

Zeke, as a smaller boy, thought the funniest joke in the world was to put an apple on his head, so this book hit right home for us. One of the simpler Seuss books, we loved the repetition, and hilarious illustrations. Soon enough Zeke was counting apples so he could yell "3 apples on top!!"

Apple Prints

I doubt there are many Fall activities more popular than apple prints...except maybe carving pumpkins.


W cut one apple horizontally, to find the little star inside, and another vertically, to make an apple shape.

Apple Songs and Rhymes

5 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 (lower one finger)
Four, Three, Two, One...until
No more apples hanging in a tree!

This is the Tree
This is the tree with leaves so green, leaves so green, leaves so green
This is the tree with leaves so green here at the farm (Fingers spread)
These are the apples that hang between, hang between, hang between
These are the apples that hang between here at the farm (fist)
When the wind blows the apples will fall, apples will fall, apples will fall
When the wind blows the apples will fall here at the farm (Wave arms)
Here is the basket to gather them all, gather them all, gather them all
Here is the basket to gather them all, here at the farm (Round arms)