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Storytime Ideas

Apples

In the Fall, many Kindergarten and First Grade teachers do a unit on apples. Preschool storytime audiences can enjoy many of these same books. For an art project, you could so something as elaborate as Apple print paintings - ahead of time, cut apples in half and carve out shapes like stars, triangles, etc. Then, the children can dip the apples into paint and do apple print pictures. For a very simple craft, you can do leaf rubbings.

  • Hall, Zoe. APPLE PIE TREE.
    The many changes an apple tree sees over the seasons and years.
  • Hutchins, Pat. TEN RED APPLES.
    As each farm animal eats an apple, the animal "moos" or "oinks" or makes the appropriate sound in this rhyming story.
  • Wallace, Nancy E. APPLES, APPLES, APPLES.
    Cut-paper illustrations highlight this simple look at an apple orchard. Includes a craft and recipe.
  • Schertle, Alice. DOWN THE ROAD.
    Hetty spots an apple tree on the way to the store, where she plans to trade her eggs. One of the few stories on apples featuring an African-American child.
  • Charles, N.N. WHAT AM I?
    A simple rhyming guessing game about colors, shapes, and fruit.
  • Asch, Frank. OATS AND WILD APPLES.
    Friendship between a calf and doe.
  • Harshman, Marc. RED ARE THE APPLES.
    Rhyming celebration of autumn, including the wide variety of colors in nature.
  • Seuss, Dr. TEN APPLES UP ON TOP!
    Under the pseudonym Theo LeSieg, Dr. Seuss shows various critters balancing apples.
  • Dragonwagon, Crescent. ALLIGATOR ARRIVED WITH APPLES.
    An alphabet book of animals, each bringing a food for a banquet.
  • Priceman, Marjorie. HOW TO MAKE AN APPLE PIE AND SEE THE WORLD.
    Use a globe to show your audience the countries you need to visit to find all the ingredients for apple pie.

July 21, 2003