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Apple Marble Art

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• Trace apple onto white construction paper and
cut out (click on template tab for apple)
•Place in bottom of shallow bin
and squirt red paint onto the apple.
•Place marbles in bin and roll around.

Hand Print Apples

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What you need:
• red and green paint
• White paper
What to do:
• paint palm of child's hand red (you can also use yellow or green for different colored apples)
• Press palm onto paper and lift.
• Paint tip of a finger green and press down for stem and leaves.
***make an apple quilt by connecting all the papers together.

Torn Paper Apple Craft

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What you need:
• green, yellow and red construction paper
• glue sticks
•apple stencil (you can use one in my templates tab)
•brown construction paper
What to do:
* tear yellow, green or red
construction paper (child  chooses color) into small pieces
* using  the apple stencil, trace the apple into a piece of white paper (you can have this prepared ahead of time), and have the children fill in the apple using the torn pieces of paper by gluing them to  the
center of the apple.
* use a piece of brown paper (torn) for the stem.

Ten Apples On Top

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Read "Ten Apples On Top" by Dr. Seuss. On a Long piece of paper draw a circle on the very bottom to draw face (child draws his/ her own face). Use an apple sponge, stamp, or cut an apple  in half, dip in red paint and stamp as many apples as you wish on top of
the head.

Edible Apple Craft

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What You Need:
• Caramel Rice Cakes
• Red Icing (mix white icing with red food coloring)
• Brown chocolate candies to
represent seeds
• Green Taffy
• Brown licorice or tootsie roll for stem
What To Do:
• Cover top and sides with red icing and add chocolate candies for seeds.
• Pull apart taffy and shape into a leaf and add stem/leaf to top
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Apple Prints

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 You will need:
•Apples (green, yellow,red)
•Tempra Paint(yellow,red,green)
•Paper plates
•white  construction paper (large works
best)
What to do:
•cut apples in half
•pour tempra paint on paper plates;  green on one, red on another, yellow on the last plate.
•place 1/2 of  the apple down into the paint (red apple in the red  paint, green in green paint  etc)
•children will take the apple and make "apple prints" on the paper  provided.•allow them to make as many apples/colors the 
choose.
•if apples  get messy simply rinse under water and they are good to go for next
child!



Paper Plate Apples

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What you need:
• 1 paper plate  per child
• red, green or  yellow paint (let child choose color)
•apple seeds (let the children taste many kinds of apples, great way to get the seeds and teach a lesson as well)
•glue
• green and brown construction paper

What to do:
* Paint the paper plate  and  allow to dry
* glue seeds in the  middle
* add leaves and stem with   green/brown construction paper

Torn Paper & Tissue Paper Apples

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Use small paper plates to create these simple apples. Tear up pieces of construction paper and glue onto the plate or cut up tissue paper and crumple them up to glue onto the plate. Either way they come out cute. Add leaves and stem made from construction paper.

What's Inside An Apple?

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What's Inside an apple? Make these  "Look and See" Apples by cutting out two apples
from red construction paper and  fastening them together by inserting a fastener through the top so it slides up.  Add Apple seeds to the middle with glue. Use brown construction paper for the  stem and green for the leaves.

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Johnny Appleseed Game

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Have children sit on the floor  with their legs "criss crossed" Pick one child to be "Johnny" and sit him/her in  a chair with their back facing the children who are sitting on the floor. Give  one child who is sitting on the floor a beanbag (which will represent the apple  seed) and have them hide it beneath them. The children then all say "Johnny  Johnny Where can your seed be? Stand up, turn around and find it for me!" The  child stands up and chooses a child who they think has their seed. They may  guess 3 times. The child who has the seed goes next. Lots of  fun!

Way Up High

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Way up high in the apple tree (hands above head)
Two little apples smiled at me.
(form apples with hands still raised)
I shook that tree as hard as I could
(shaking motion)
Down came the apples. 
(drop hands)
                       Ummmmmmmmm.Were 
                       they good!
(rub stomach)

Farmer Brown Had Ten Red Apples

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Create this  tree with poster board, laminate then attach magnetic tape
to where you
would  like the apples placed. Make the apples using foam (you
will need 10) and add a  magnet to the back of each one so they will "attach" to the tree magnets. Sing  the song below and remove one apple and pretend to
eat it as you count down. Continue until there are no more apples on the tree.
Farmer Brown had 10 red  apples hanging from a tree (hold up ten fingers) 
He picked one  apple
and ate it hungrily
(pick one apple off  the tree and pretend to eat  it)
Farmer Brown had 9 red apples hanging
from a tree (hold up 9 fingers)

He picked one  apple
and ate it hungrily (pick one
apple off the tree  and pretend to eat it)


(Continue by counting down the number of
apples)

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Ten Apples On Top

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Make this "Ten Apples On Top" headband with red and white poster board. Staple together like shown. Using a spinner like below, have each child spin to see how many apples they will have on top. Cut out apples from construction paper and glue that number of apples to their headband. Add leaves with a marker and write (child's name) has (number) apples on top!

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The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall

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After reading The Apple Pie Tree, create your own
scented apple pie using paper plates! Paint both paper plates brown and after it is dry mix a bit of glue and water to thin it out and paint it across the top. Sprinkle a mixture of cinnamon and sugar and let dry. Add slits in the middle with a black marker and glue the two plates together to make the pie complete.Smells yummy!

Apple Lacing Cards

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Cut out apples from different colored poster board and punch holes around the apple like shown. Use a bobby pin to sew the yarn in and out the holes.

Coffee Filter Apples

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Paper Plate Apple Tree

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Cut a paper towel roll in half and paint it brown. Paint a small paper plate green, allow to dry and glue small red pom poms to it. Cut a slit on both sides of the paper towel roll and insert the plate.

Apple Pie Pockets

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Fold a coffee filter in  half and cut out apple shape. Fold in half again and dip the edges into a  mixture of water and red food coloring (use green and yellow for different  colored apples). Unfold and allow to dry. Add leaves and stem. Hang on the  windows.

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Make these simple apple  pockets with Grands Biscuits. Press out dough with hands or rolling pin so the  biscuit is flat and round. Add apple pie filling to one half of the circle  (I  used the Apple Pie filling they sell at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store) you  can add cinnamon if it is not in the filling. Fold over the biscuit to form a  "pocket" and pinch down the sides with your fingers or a fork to seal. Bake in  oven on cookie sheet at 350 degrees until golden brown. Add a scoop of caramel  ice cream and enjoy!