Looking for fun, low-prep apple songs and fingerplays for your preschool classroom? 🍎🍏
These apple-themed songs and fingerplays are a perfect way to build language, movement, counting, and listening skills while keeping young children engaged and having fun during apple season and fall! Use them during circle time, transitions, or anytime you want to add some singing, movement, and learning to your day!
🍎 “I’m a Little Apple” (Tune: I’m a Little Teapot)
🎵 I’m a little apple, red and round, (make circle with arms)
Hanging on a tree up off the ground. (reach up high)
When the wind blows, watch me fall, (flutter down to the ground)
Roll away — I’m having a ball! (roll hands)
🌳“Five Little Apples” (Tune: Five Little Ducks)
🎵 Five little apples hanging in a tree,
The wind shook one as gently as could be.
Down it fell with a bump on the ground,
Then four little apples could be found!
Count down from 5 to 1.
🍎 “If You See a Red Apple” (Tune: If You’re Happy and You Know It)
🎵 If you see a red apple, clap your hands!
If you see a red apple, clap your hands!
If you see a red apple,
Then give it a little tapple,
If you see a red apple, clap your hands!
(Repeat with green, yellow, or big, small, etc.)
🍏 “Apple Tree” (Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)
🎵 Apple tree so big and tall,
Growing apples for us all.
Branches reaching to the sky,
Birds and squirrels passing by.
Pick an apple, one, two, three,
Thank you for your fruit, dear tree!
🍏”Ten Little Apples” (Tune: Ten Little Indians)
🎵 One little, two little, three little apples,
Four little, five little, six little apples,
Seven little, eight little, nine little apples,
Ten apples on my tree!
(hold up fingers as you count, then spread arms wide like a tree)
🍎 🍏 “The Apples on the Tree” (Tune: The Wheels on the Bus)
🎵 The apples on the tree go round and round, (roll hands)
Round and round, round and round.
The apples on the tree go round and round,
All day long!
The wind in the tree goes swish, swish, swish, (sway arms)
Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish.
The wind in the tree goes swish, swish, swish,
All day long!
The apples on the ground go plop, plop, plop, (tap floor)
Plop, plop, plop, plop, plop, plop.
The apples on the ground go plop, plop, plop,
All day long!
🍎 “Apple Action Chant”
When I say APPLE, clap your hands.
When I say PICK, give a little kick.
When I say TREE, touch your knee.
When I say RED, nod your head.
When I say SWEET, stomp your feet.
When I say CORE, touch the floor.
When I say SEED, do a funny deed.
When I say PIE, wink your eye.
When I say FALL, stand up tall.
When I say YUM, pat your tum.
When I say DONE, say “Apples are fun!”