Apples on the Tree Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

     

 

• Book #1 – The Life Cycle of an Apple Tree by Linda Tagliaferro

• Stand-up Activity – "Shakin' Like a Leafy Tree" from Racing to the Rainbow by The Wiggles

• 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 - Four Little Apples (counting down rhyme found in Ready to Go Storytimes: Fingerplays, Scripts, Patterns, Music, & More by Gail Benton and Trisha Waichulaitis)

• Letter of the Day - "A" is for apple

• Book #2 – Apples, Apples! by Salina Yoon (board book)

• Activity – Four Red Apples (fingerplay to the tune of "This Old Man")

4 red apples, on the tree

2 for you and 2 for me

So-o shake that tree and watch them fall

1, 2, 3, 4, that is all

• Closing - Egg shakers to the song "I Know a Chicken" from The Best of the Laurie BerknerBand by Laurie Berkner 

   

 

• Art Experience – Crayon coloring on an apple drawing