Cut a tree shape out of felt and place in on  a flannel board.  Cut out several felt
 apples shapes and put them into a basket.  Let your children help place the apple
 shapes on the tree shape.  Then let them take turns picking the apples from the
 tree as everyone counts together.  Ask older children to pick specific colors or sizes of apples.

Use the flannel board shapes from the activity Apple Picking
 (above) to tell a story about an apple in an apple tree.

(Sung to the tune of: "There's A Hole in the Bucket") 

There are apples to harvest, 
To harvest, to harvest. 
There are apples to harvest, 
From the orchard's trees. 

(Make a flannel board apple tree and removable felt apples and let one child
at a time come up to "harvest" an apple as you repeat singing this song.)

Glue a felt tree shape to each of five cardboard squares.  Write a number from 1 to 5 under
 each tree.  Cut fifteen apple shapes out of felt.  To play the game have the children take turns
 identifying the numbers below and placing the corresponding number of apples on them.

Make a large flannel apple tree. Follow directions given at Sharing Time and
make several different colored apples. Let children count the number of
apples on the tree or let them name the colors.

Materials Needed:
Crayons
Paper
Scissors

Draw a picture of 10 apples (or if you are as bad an artist as I am trace one out of a book)
 Let your child color each apple a different color (or put numbers or letters on them). Cut them
 out. If you are using them for a flannel board story cover them with clear shelf paper and attach
 a small piece of sand paper to the middle of the back. Put the apples on the board, or a table,
 one at a time as you name (or ask your child to name) each one. Sing the following song
 (remember small children love simple songs)

10 big apples in the tree.
Looking as plump and juicy as can be.
I pick (let your child, if you are in a daycare name a child that will, take one) one apple from the tree.
Now how many do I see?

Now point to each apple as you count each. Start the song over until you reach 0 then sing

Now there are no more apples in the tree.
No more apples as plump and juicy as can be
No more apples to pick for me
So I guess I'll go to sleep
(rest your head on your hands and fall asleep).

(A good song to also use with flannel board, or story glove. Put small square of coarse
 side of velcro on tip of each finger of white gardening glove. Cut 5 green apples
 from sheets of craft foam or felt. Adhere soft side of velcro to back of each apple.)

Farmer Brown had 5 green apples hanging on the tree
Farmer Brown had 5 green apples hanging on the tree
He plucked 1 apple, and ate it hungrily
leaving....
4 green apples hanging on the tree
(continue...)
Farmer Brown had 1 green apple hanging on the tree
Farmer Brown had 1 green apple hanging on the tree
He plucked that apple, and gave it all to me!
Leaving no green apples hanging on the tree

Make flannel pieces of grass, a boy, and a worm.

One time a little boy was playing in his backyard. In the grass he saw a worm.
 He watched the worm for a long time. Then he said, "What an ugly thing you are!
 You have no hair, no legs, and I don't think you have any eyes." "That doesn't
 matter," said the worm. "All worms are like that. We get along fine." "But do you
know how to do anything?" said the boy. "The animals run about, and the birds fly
 and sing. You cannot do any of those things." "True," said the worm. "I cannot do
 those things." "I know how to do everything," said the boy. "I even know how to read
 and write." "I do not need to know how to read and write," said the worm. "But, tell me,
 do you know how to live in the world all by yourself? Can you feed yourself and take
 care of yourself without the help of your parents?" "No, but I am still very young," said
 the boy. "But I am much younger than you, and yet I can feed myself and take care
 of myself without any help. And besides, did you ever see a worm that could talk?"

Once upon a time there was a little boy who couldn't find anything to play with. He was tired of all his
 toys and asked his mother if she could please help him find something to do. She thought and thought
 and finally said, "Why, I know what you can do. You can go outside and look for a little red house that
 is red and shiny, has no doors, and windows, and has a star inside." He thought it sounded like fun,
 and easy to find, so outside he went. He looked and looked, but there was no such house to be found.
 The little boy met a dog and said, "Mr. Dog, would you help me find a little house that is red and shiny,
 has no doors, and windows, and has a star inside?" The dog said, "Surely," and they went together to
 find the house. (They meet a cat, horse, cow, and a chicken and go through the same routine.) Then
 they met a little old woman who had a knife in her hand. The little boy asked her if she had seen a
little red house that is red and shiny, has no doors, and windows, and has a star inside. She answered,
 "Why yes, come along with me and I will find it for you." The little old woman said, "This is where the
 house is, little boy." The little boy and his friends looked and looked, but could not see the little red
  house. The old woman picked an apples and asked, "Isn't this round and shiny? It has no doors
 and no windows. I wonder if there is a star inside." With her knife, she cut the apple horizontally.
 There was a star! So the little boy found the little red house that is red and shiny, has no doors,
and windows, and has a star inside. It's an apple!!

Count the seeds. cut out 10 red and 10 white poster board apples on each of the white
 draw one to ten seeds in the center number the red apples from one to ten identify
 the number on the red apples and place on the white apples laminate them for flannel board usage.

Cut out different sizes of apples... from colored construction paper or color them on white ones..
 arrange them from small to large made them a flannel board exercise also
 if you have small  children.. only do 3 toddlers and preschoolers do 6.

Five little apples hung on a tree
The farmer didn't care
So guess who came to eat?
A CATERPILLAR...MUNCH, MUNCH

Four little apples hung on a tree
The farmer didn't care
So guess who came to eat?
A BIRD.........MUNCH, MUNCH

Three little apples hung on a tree
The farmer didn't care
So guess who came to eat?
A PIG..........MUNCH, MUNCH

Two little apples hung on a tree
The farmer didn't care
So guess who came to eat?
A HORSE...MUNCH, MUNCH

One little apple hung on a tree
The farmer didn't care
So guess who came to eat?
A SCARECROW...MUNCH, MUNCH

Now the tree is bare
There are no more apples there
But when next fall comes around
Guess who'll be there?
THE CATERPILLAR
THE BIRD
THE PIG
THE HORSE
And the SCARECROW
YUM! YUM

At circle time, place apple shapes on flannel board. For very young children,
 put one of each color, have children close their eyes and take one apple away.
 See if children can spot which one is missing. With older children, use all colors to
 learn sequencing. This is also a good time to discuss that apples are more colors
 than red, and can evolve into an apple tasting which can then evolve
 into how many children like red, how many like yellow, etc.

Cut out different sizes of apples from colored construction paper or color them on white ones.
 Arrange them from small to large or make them a flannel board exercise if you have small children.

Ten red apples growing on a tree,
Five for you and five for me.
There's one little worm that you can't see!
Where, oh where, could that little worm be?"

Equipment:
10 apple cut outs (they could be felt, poster board, construction paper
 attached to craft sticks, etc.
Green pipe cleaner, bent like a "worm"

Procedure:
Number the apples 1-10.
Tape the "worm" to the back of one of the apples, so it is hidden.
Recite the verse. Invite the children to guess which apple has the worm by naming its number.
This could be done several ways---with a flannel board or magnet board.
(Attach magnets to the back of poster board apple cut-outs.), or as stick "puppets".

My students LOVE guessing games. I know they will enjoy this one!
 And what a fun way to practice number recognition! And how about a gummy worm
 for each student when the "worm" is found and the number identified correctly?

Cut out 10 red and 10 white poster board apples. On each of the white draw one
 to ten seeds in the center. Number the red apples from one to ten identify the number
 on the red apples and place on the white apples. Laminate them for flannel board usage.

Make a felt apple tree and ten felt apples and place the tree on a flannel board. Number the
 apples from 1 to 10. Let each child in turn choose an apple, identify the number on it and
 place the apple on the tree. When all the apples are on the tree, count them as a group.

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Thanks for sharing all your great ideas!