Preschool artists can use apples to express their creativity. Place a moist, folded paper towel on three plates where you will pour red, green or yellow paint. Supply several halved apples and heavy paper. Following a demonstration, instruct your children to make apple pictures by stamping. Allow every child to make a stamped picture. Provide more paper and ask your students to stamp colored patterns, such as yellow-yellow-green or red-green-red-green.
Provide a sheet of red tissue paper for each child. Let the children crumple the tissue paper into a round shape. Display the tissue apples in a large bowl.
Apples can be examined as preschoolers learn about the science of nutrition. Offer apple slices for a snack. Invite your children to examine their apple slices as you discuss the apple's parts. In addition, let your children examine apple seeds. Talk about how the seeds grow into an apple tree
Your children can dance, sing and giggle as they listen to music downloaded from an apple themed play list. Let your children substitute the following lyrics to "This Old Man":
Four red apples, on the tree,
Two for you and two for me
So-o shake that tree and watch them fall
One, two, three, four, that is all.
Apples can also make math activities more fun. Make an apple counting booklet. Instruct your students to draw apples or use stickers to show how many apples are on a page. The children can trace the accompanying number and word for the page. Listen to preschool songs about apples during the activity.
Present an apple and ask your children to guess how many seeds are contained inside. Halve the apple and ask students to count each seed as you remove it. Halve another apple after asking your children if the new apple contains the identical number of seeds. Let them count the new seeds.