Apple Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink (from Car Songs: Songs to Sing Anywhere by Dennis Buck at Kimbo), Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – Apple Farmer Annie by Monica Wellington
• Stand-up Activity - Great Big Apple Tree (action song to the tune of "Are You Sleeping?" written by Carol Hopkins)

Great big apple tree
Great big apple tree
Standing tall
Standing tall
Moving your branches
When the wind blows
Then the apples fall
Down to the ground

• Bridge - Open Shut Them (fingerplay)

Open, shut them
(open and close hands)
Open, shut them
Give a little clap (clap)
Open, shut them
Open, shut them
Put them in your lap
(put hands in lap)

Creep them, creep them
Under your chin
(creep fingers up chest)
Open your mouth, but don't put them in
(do as words say)

Open, shut them
Open, shut them
Give a little clap
Open shut them
Open shut them
Put them in your lap

• Flannelboard/Math Activity - Four Little Apples (counting down rhyme found in Ready to Go Storytimes: Fingerplays, Scripts, Patterns, Music, & More by Gail Benton and Trisha Waichulaitis)
• Sit-down Activity - Four Red Apples (action song to the tune of "This Old Man" written by Carol Hopkins

Four red apples on the tree
Two for you and two for me
So-o shake that tree and watch them fall
1, 2, 3, 4, that is all.

• Book #2 - Apples, Apples by Salina Yoon (lift-flap board book)
• Activity – I'm a Little Teapot (traditional action song from This Little Piggy: Lap Songs, Finger Plays, Clapping Games, and Pantomine Rhymes edited by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Will Hillenbrand, musical arrangement by Adam Stemple)
• Closing - Eggshakers to the song "I Know a Chicken" from Whaddaya Think of That? by Laurie Berkner
• Craft – Print out a tree for each child. Use red dot stickers to add apples to the tree.