Ten Red Apples (Preschool and Two's)

Preschool Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Fingerplay: Apples

I love red apples, they are so sweet!

Let’s find a red apple so we can eat!

*I wanted to do something interactive with the preschoolers to open up, and came up with this rhyme at the last moment. Don't you love when that happens? I made different colored apples out of construction paper, and told the preschoolers the rhyme above. Then I proceeded to hold up the wrong colored apple until you I got to correct red apple. The preschoolers screamed and shouted at me until I got to the red apple! It was so much fun!

Book: Terrible Plop

*This is my first time reading this book in storytime, and it went really well! It's a bit lengthy, but it rhymes, so that helps with the flow of the book.

Fingerplay/Flannel:

Acorn, acorn, where do you hide?

Are you under the _____ leaf?

Let's peek inside!

*The preschoolers love hiding games on the flannelboard, so to make this fit with our theme we hunted for an apple.

Credit: Literary Hoots

Book: Shake the Tree

*I was so excited to use this book, I even made a flannel for it, which I've included a picture below. I had plans to hand out dancing scarves to the preschoolers, so that we could shake the scarves like a tree as I read. But I was afraid that would be too distracting, so instead we just shook our arms from side to side. Sadly, the preschoolers didn’t enjoy this book near as much as I’d hoped.

Fingerplay: Tree Shakers (Use Scarves)

Everybody shake high and low,

Shakin’ like a leafy tree.

Everybody shake high and low,

Shaking’ like a leafy tree.

Stretch, stretch, stretch,

Stretch out your branches.

Bend, bend, bend,

Bend in the breeze.

Shake, shake, shake,

Shake all around now.

Stretch, stretch, stretch.

Everybody shake high and low,

Shakin’ like a leafy tree….

Credit: Sunflower Storytime

Fingerplay/Flannel: Five Apples

Five golden autumn leaves,

High up in the tree.

The wind blows,

The leaves shake,

And one falls down to me.

Falling, falling,

Falling down,

Falling, falling,

Falling to the ground.

*For this flannel I placed apples onto my flannel tree. As I tell the fingerplay, I take one apple off my tree. Then, I will have paper apples "rain" down onto the preschoolers, much to their delight!

Credit: Sunflower Storytime

For our craft today we made an apple pie! Then we gave them brown strips cut out to put over the apples to look like crust.  After that, we had cotton balls glued onto white circles to represent cool whip.

  

We also played games today!  To see what we did click here!

Extra books:

Time for Two’s Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Fingerplay: If You Want to Hear a Story

Book: Apples and Robins

*I only read parts of this book, and in the beginning the two's did great with it.  For some reason, they lost interest near the end.  I don't know if it was me, the book or just this storytime.  Still, I highly recommend this book, it's a great book to use for a shapes or apple theme!

Fingerplay/Flannel:

Acorn, acorn, where do you hide?

Are you under the _____ leaf?

Let's peek inside!

*The preschoolers love hiding games on the flannelboard, so to make this fit with our theme we hunted for an apple.

Credit: Literary Hoots

Flannelboard: “Five Little Apples”

Five little apples hung in a tree

The farmer wasn’t looking.

So guess who came to eat?

A rabbit! Munch, munch, munch!

(Mouse, crow, turtle, bat)

Now the tree is bare

There are no more apples there

But when next fall comes around

Guess who’ll be there! The rabbit, the mouse, the crow, the turtle, and the bat!

Credit: Storytime Secrets

Book: Tap the Magic Tree

For our craft today we made an apple pie!  Then we gave them brown strips cut out to put over the apples to look like crust.  After that, we had cotton balls glued onto white circles to represent cool whip. 
 

We also played games today!  To see what we did click here!