Apple Banana Cherry - Storytime Online

Hello everyone! We hope you are all excited for Apple Banana Cherry by Joy Cowley.

We have put together a bunch of fun activities and crafts for the little ones. Starting today, Friday, May 1, the kits are available to pick up for our online storytime this month!

Enjoy a FREE copy of the book and more!

"Apple Banana Cherry" by Joy Cowley

"Read-aloud rhymes make learning the alphabet so much fun for young readers."

Visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7PJB6mP5MM to watch to watch QEES Learning Line’s read aloud with Ms. Kellie. Then, enjoy the activities! Everything is yours to keep!

Kits include:

• a FREE copy of Apple Banana Cherry

• information page

• colors game (5 colored bananas)

• rhymes/song pages with weblinks (instrument included)

• 2 activity pages

• 2 coloring pages

• B is for Bear craft

• 3 magnets from the story

• fruit stickers

Here are the following pages that you will receive with your kit!

HANDOUT GAMES – play with included banana handouts

Can You Show Me…?

(Tune: “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush”)

Can you show me the green banana?

Green banana, green banana?

Can you show me the green banana?

And wave it in the air?

Yellow… purple… brown… red

Hold It High – Choose one banana from handouts

Hold your banana high and stand

Now wave it around in gestures grand!

Hold your banana below your chin

Now hold it way up high again

Hold your banana against your nose

Now touch the banana to your toes

Touch your banana to the ground

Now wave that banana all around!

Hold your banana in front of you

Now turn around – one time, two!

Hold your banana and jump up high!

Now let your banana fly fly fly (throw it in the air)

SONGS & INSTRUMENT – use included instruments

Look At All The Letters by The Laurie Berkner Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7aV0xCcZKk

Apples & Bananas by Ms Apple

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwzXnLQQM4

A for Apple Song by Abc Song Box

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbaEvKp8MKc

ABC Hop! by Super Simple ABCs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoRPyPJnqTY

BOUNCE RHYME (bounce along with child in lap)

Four Little Apples

Way up high in the apple tree

(bounce child up high)

Four little apples smiled at me.

I shook that tree as hard as I could.

(gently shake child)

Down came an apple!

(bounce child down low)

Mmmmm, mmmm, good!

(rub tummy)

Three little apples...

Two little apples...

One little apple...

ACTION RHYMES

ABC Beat

First clap your hands. Then stomp your feet.

Everybody do the ABC beat!

Apple, Apple, Apple – a – a – a,

Apple, Apple, Apple – a – a – a,

Wave your arms high. Swing your arms low.

The ABC beat is the way to go.

Blue, Blue, Blue – b – b – b

Blue, Blue, Blue – b – b – b

Move to the left. Move to the right.

The ABC beat is way out of sight.

Car, Car, Car – c – c – c

Car, Car, Car – c – c – c

Now give a high five to a nearby friend.

The ABC beat has come to the end!

Big Green Bananas

I walked through the jungle

And what did I see?

Big green bananas

Hanging on a tree.

I chopped down a bunch

And set them in the sun.

When they turned yellow,

I ate every one!

Clap, Wiggle, and Reach

Clap your hands, stomp your feet,

Wiggle all around!

Reach your hands high in the air,

And now let’s touch the ground!

Hold your head, hold your hips,

Give yourself a hug!

Sit down upon the ground,

But watch out for the bugs

(Yuck!)

Ten Red Cherries

Ten red cherries grow on a tree

(both hands high)

Five for you and five for me

(dangle one hand and then the other)

Let us shake the tree just so

(shake body)

And ten red cherries will fall below

(hands fall)

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!

Picking Up the Fruits

Picking up the apples and puttin’ ‘em in the basket

Picking up the apples and puttin’ ‘em in the basket

Picking up the apples and puttin’ ‘em in the basket

Way down yonder in the apple grove

Picking up the bananas… banana grove

Picking up the cherries… cherry grove

Picking up the dragon fruit… dragon fruit grove

Can you think of other fruits?

EXTRA LINKS!

Joy Cowley’s site:

https://www.joycowley.com/

Kiddle Encyclopedia’s page on illustrator Elizabeth Fuller: https://kids.kiddle.co/Elizabeth_Fuller_(illustrator)

We hope you enjoy these activities and would love to hear what you thought of the book! We also hope you enjoyed the extra links. Remember, you can comment here on this website, email us at swantonpl@gmail.com, or come in and turn in a physical copy!