The video above shows this song as a finger puppet song. This is a great idea, however if you cannot or do not have the time to make finger or glove puppets for this, you can change the presentation without changing the idea behind it.
Here are some ideas I came up with:
- Draw apples (or whichever food you're working with) across a sheet of paper. Point to each one as you sing the song.
- Take a piece of cardboard and glue a solid color piece of felt over the whole piece. Then make apples (or again whichever food you're working with) out of red felt with green felt leaves. Felt sticks to felt, so just stick the apples onto the big piece. Make sure you make the apples small enough to fit on the whole piece.
- Draw apples (or whatever) on the sidewalk with chalk. Make a line for each kid and have them hop into each one as you sing, or the kids can even hop in one line. Also, if you're sidewalk or walkway or driveway isn't long enough to make ten apples, then just make five and turn around and hop back.
- Cut out apples from pieces of construction paper. Lay them out and point to each one OR hang them on a wire coat hanger or just on the wall OR have the kids hold them up one at a time as you all sing.
Hope that gave you some good ideas. If you have any more, feel free to leave them in the comment section below. Now for the lyrics:
One little, Two little, Three little apples,
Four little, Five little, Six little applies,
Seven little, Eight little, Nine little apples,
Ten little apples falling from the tree.
Count them, count them, count them with me.
Count them, count them, count them with me.
Count them, count them, count them with me.
Count the apples falling from the tree.
One little, Two little, Three little apples,
Four little, Five little, Six little applies,
Seven little, Eight little, Nine little apples,
Ten little apples falling from the tree.
