Apple Banana Cherry - Storytime Online
- Leanna Chappell
- 3 hours ago
- 3 min read
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
Apples & Bananas by Ms Apple
A for Apple Song by Abc Song Box
ABC Hop! by Super Simple ABCs
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:
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!
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