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APPLE ACTIVITIES
 
APPLE NECKLACE
Using the small pattern, cut 1-4 apples for your child out of red paper.
Next, punch two holes at the top of each apple.
Then, give your child a small piece of yarn and have him lace the apples onto the yarn to make a necklace. [You can create a needle on the yarn by wrapping one end with a small piece of tape.]
 
STICK PUPPET
Using the medium pattern, cut out a red apple for your child.
Have her draw a face on the apple with a black marking pen or crayon.
Next, help her tape a craft stick to the bottom back of the apple shape.
You can also help her add arms by taping two short pieces of yarn to the back sides of the apple.
Have her place round stickers on the end of the yarn pieces for hands.
 
WORM PUPPET
Using the medium pattern, cut an apple out of heavy red paper for your child.
Then, somewhere on the apple, cut out a finger hole.
Have your child hold up the apple and when someone gets close have him stick his finger through the hole in the apple, pretending to be a worm.
 
WALKING PUPPET
Make the puppet just like you would the worm puppet but instead of one finger hole, put two finger holes at the bottom of the apple.
You child can use this puppet by placing two fingers in the holes and "walking" their apple puppet around.
 
LARGE APPLE FUN
Cut an apple out of white paper and let your child tear pieces of red paper to glue onto the shape.
Or - cut an apple out of red paper and glue on pictures of words that begin with the letter "A".
Or - Cut out two red apples for each child and use them for book covers. Make a storybook, Alphabet book, number book or whatever kind of book your child would like.
 
FELT BOARD FUN
Make a large green felt board in the shape of a tree and place two red felt apples on the tree.
Recite the following rhyme as you place apples on and take them off of the felt board.
 

TWO LITTLE APPLES
Two little apples
Up in the tree,
One for you
And one for me.

I shook that tree
As hard as I could
And down came the apples,
M-m-m they were good!
Adapted Traditional

Or make 4 red felt apples and recite the following number rhyme with your child.

FOUR RED APPLES
Four red apples on the tree,
One fell down, then there were three.

Three red apples, shinny and new,
One fell down, now there are two.

Two red apples, under the sun,
One fell down, now there is one.

One red apple, now I see.
When it falls down, no more apples on the tree!
Adapted Traditional