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Apple Miscellaneous Ideas
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Contact_FullName: Chris Contact_Email: tyketown@adelphia.net date:: 09/30/01 Area: apple-misc Idea: Sensory Table Idea***** Add Cinnamon and dried apples to your oatmeal in the sensory table. It will smell like apple pie.
12-27-00Cut out apple shape with small hole in bottom corner from stiff card. Decorate, I usually print red finger painting. Then draw face on child's finger with marker, this becomes a worm that pokes through the apple.
10-16-00"Apple Of My Eye" Take a small paper plate and have the child color red, yellow, or green (or mix all 3). Then cut a stem and a leaf to glue on the top. Next take a picture of the child and cut it into a circle and glue in the middle. Write "You are the apple of my eye" on the leaf. Makes a great present for parents!
10-8-00Apple pigs written and illustrated by Ruth Orbach. Cleveland : W. Collins+World Pub. Co., 1977, c1976. A family suddenly inundated with apples from a once dried-up tree finds a very enjoyable way to dispose of the surplus. Apples by Gail Gibbons. New York : Holiday House, 2000. Explains how apples were brought to America, how they grow, their traditional uses and cultural significance, and some of the varieties grown. The seasons of Arnold's apple tree by Gail Gibbons. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1984. As the seasons pass, Arnold enjoys a variety of activities as a result of his apple tree. Includes a recipe for apple pie and a description of how an apple cider press works. Rain makes applesauce by Julian Scheer & Marvin Bileck. New York, Holiday House, 1964. A silly story. Ten red apples by Pat Hutchins. New York : Greenwillow Books, c2000. In rhyming verses, one animal after another neighs, moos, oinks, quacks and makes other appropriate sounds as each eats an apple from the farmer's tree. Oats and wild apples by Frank Asch. New York : Holiday House, c1988. A calf and fawn meet and learn about each others' lives, but in the end prefer to be near their mothers. Johnny Appleseed : a tall tale retold and illustrated by Steven Kellogg. New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1988. Presents the life of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, describing his love of nature, his kindness to animals, and his physical fortitude.
9-26-00TEN Apples On Top Use long pieces of paper. Have the children draw their face at the bottom. Then have them sponge paint 10 apples on top with red paint. or supply or have them cut out 10 apples.... also I made 10 apple bean bags and tried to see how many they could balance. Used a chart from 1 to 10 and added their names in the correct places....They had a blast...
9-14-00Read the children a story. Example I read the story of how the star got into the apple. After you read the story ask the children, one at the time to tell you the story back and write it down just as they say it. Only print it on the shape of the apple. Call it your apple story. The whole book will contain the real story and the story told by each child and placed in the reading center for everyone to read.
9-9-00Apple printing and story: Cut apples in half. Make sure you cut it so the "star" is showing. The seeds do make a star pattern. Dip in red paint, and print on paper. Tell or read the following story. Once there was a little boy who went to visit his Grandmother. He was getting restless, so his Grandmother told him to go out on her farm and find a little house with no windows, and no doors, and a star inside. The little boy met his cousin. "Do you know where I can find a little house with no windows and no doors, and a star inside?" "No," said his cousin. "Maybe farmer Jones will know." The little boy continued to walk, he so enjoyed the country side. He looked all around him, but still could not discover what he was looking for. "Hello, farmer Jones, do you know where I can find a little house with no windows and no doors and a star inside?" "Sorry, son, I don't know, maybe if you walk into the orchard over there, you may meet my wife and she may know." "Thank you sir," said the little boy. He skipped merrily into the orchard. He didn't see the farmer's wife. But, he heard the wind blowing. Hooooo.....hooooo! Just then an apple fell at his feet. Out of the apple came a little tiny worm. The cutest, smallest little worm that he ever saw! "Hmmm...." thought the boy. "This apple is the little worm's home. I don't see any windows or doors, but I don't see a star either!" Well, he picked up the apple and went home to Grandma." Could this be the little house with no windows and no doors?" "Why yes, it is honey. Good job." The little boy looked sad. "But Gram there is no star!" Grandma (teacher) cuts the apple, and reveals the star. How amazing! ----Author Unknown.
7-31-00This is a great math activity. I have all the children send in a couple of apples and then we take turns measuring each other. We use the apples as a ruler and see how many apples long we each are.
7-31-00Buy inexpensive, thin, white paper plates. Ask children to paint one side red. Glue actual or felt leaves and a paper stem to the top of the apple. Fold a piece of green or brown paper accordion style, so that it looks like a worm popping out of the apple. On the white or backside of the plate, glue dark colored beans to look like seeds. Punch a hole in the top of the apple and hang from your classroom tree!
7-30-00Take a paper plate and have the children paint it red. Then take a child's photo and put it yellow construction paper and put it on the center of the painted red paper plate. The yellow construction paper should be in a circle shape. Have a precut brown stem. Also have a precut leaf, on the leaf write - I'm the Apple of Your Eye!
7-29-00The children love the story of the Round Red House. You tell the children about a little girl who had goes to visit her grandma in the country. Well, the little girl gets bored. Grandma tell her she has a "chore" for her. She is to find a round, red house that has no doors, no windows and has a star inside The little girl thinks and thinks, but can not come up with an answer. Grandma tells her when she has a problem she goes next door to Farmer Brown. The girl goes, telling him what she has to find. Farmer Brown thinks and thinks, but has no answer. He does know who can help, however. He says, "See that hill over there? Go sit under that apple tree and wait for the wind. When I can't figure something out I always go and ask the wind and he always knows the answer." So the little girl goes, sits under the tree, falling asleep. Here comes the wind. She asks her question. The wind laughs, making the branches of the apple sway. One apple falls into the girl's lap. She looks at it. It is round, red, has not windows, no doors. Could it be? Is there a star inside? Thanking the wind the girl runs off to Grandma's. When she gets there she tell Grandma what she's discovered. Grandma takes a knife and cuts the apple in half. Sure enough, there is a star. I keep an apple and knife in my apron pocket while I'm telling the story. At the appropriate time I take out the apple and cut it. Make sure you cut the apple around the "equator" not from stem to bottom. The children are amazed. I make sure I have enough apples to give each half. I have made a large apple on a paper with slits cut through it. On another I've made pictures of the story. I give a copy of each to the children so they can tell the story at home. I let them color the apple and pictures. I have precut the slits in the apple and cut the pictures into a long strip. When they've colored I help them thread the pictures into their apple. We practice retelling the story. That is their homework for the night. It's great fun and my Kindergarten class loves it.
7-27-00I use this idea as a guidance lesson. Read the book Sesame Street We Are the Same, We Are Different. To illustrate how people appear to be different on the outside but we are the same inside, I use 3 apples, one green, one yellow and one red. We discuss how they are the same, and then how they are different. After the discussion, I peel each of the apples and we discuss how they are the same on the inside. Then everyone samples the apples!
7-23-00We have an apple day complete with the kids peeling their own apples with the "Pampered Chef" apple peeler/corer. This leave long strands of apple peel to be thrown away, however, we use them to paint apple pictures with using red and green paint. The kids absolutely love this, it's science, it's senses (tasting), it's just all things!! I love this day. I look very forward our "apple day" with our 4-yr olds!!
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