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Chubbie Cubbie's Apple Activities
Activity name:
Happy Birthday Johnny Appleseed
Materials needed:
Cupcakes
Red Frosting
Green leaf-shaped candies (if you can't find these you can flatten green
gum drops and cut into leaf shapes)
Pretzel Sticks
Plastic Knives
Story about Johnny Appleseed
Preparation:
None.
Carrying out the
activity:
Read a story about Johnny Appleseed. After you're done tell the
children they are going to have a birthday party for him and make special
"apple" cupcakes.
Give each child a cupcake, a plastic knife, and access to the red
frosting. Have them frost their cupcake. When they are done
have them add a pretzel stick stem and a candy leaf. Sing Happy
Birthday to Johnny and enjoy the cupcakes.
Activity name:
Apple Trees
Materials needed:
Small paper bags
Red, green, & yellow markers
Three white poster boards
Tape
Red, yellow, and green construction paper
Clear contact paper
Velcro
Crayons
Large paintbrush
Glue
Preparation:
Make apples out of the red, yellow, and green
paper. Cover each apple with contact paper. Place small piece of velcro on
the back of each apple. Draw one tree on each poster board. Label each
tree as red, yellow, or green apple trees using the appropriate color
marker. Place velcro dots on each tree. Have the children color their own
apple-picking bag.
Carrying out the
activities:
Activity 1 –
Put apples of various colors in each child’s bag. Have them take them out
and place them on the correct tree.
Activity 2 –
Instruct each child to “pick” a certain sequence of apples such as two
red, one yellow, and three green and place them into their apple sacks.
Then have them count their apples to see how many they picked.
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