With fall approaching, we've compiled an AMAZING list of the perfect APPLE themed songs, poems, and fingerplays for your early learner! How fun that some of these songs teach skills like rhyming, rhythm, counting, subtraction, vocabulary, memory, and more!
If you're wondering what a fingerplay is, or why it's important, check out our article on the benefits of fingerplays here.
These preschool songs are wonderful because they promote language development, fine motor skills, vocabulary, literacy, and coordination! Plus they are mood lifters because they are just so fun!
Top 10+ Apple Themed Preschool Songs
1 I Climbed Up an Apple Tree
I climbed up an apple tree. (fist over fist, climbing motion)
All the apples fell on me! (fingers fall down)
Apple pudding, apple pie. (mixing motion, make circle with arms)
Did you ever tell a lie? (point)
Watch the video here! https://youtu.be/3XUAxwyEXvU
2 Way Up High in the Apple Tree
Way up high in the apple tree (reach up high, spread fingers pretending to be a tree)
Five little apples smiled at me (Put fingers on cheeks make smile or make circles with hands as if apples)
I shook that tree as hard as I could (pretend to shake the tree)
Down came the apples (bring hands down wiggling fingers, like falling rain)
Mmmmm, they were good! (rub tummy)
*Repeat with…4,3,2,1… All Gone!
This is a great one to act out with the "apples" in The Apple Box!
Watch the video here! https://youtu.be/SoXQwnw8VSQ
3 Look at the Apple I Have Found
Look at the apple I have found, (hold hands out)
so fat and rosy on the ground. (make hands into ball)
We'll wash it, (pretend to wash it)
and cut it in two. (pretend to cut it)
One half for me, (pretend to take half)
one half for you! (pretend to give half away)
Watch the video here! https://youtu.be/IGemK7YL31E
4 Ten Little Apples
One little, two little, three little apples, (wiggle each finger 1-3)
Four little, five little, six little apples, (wiggle each finger 4-6)
Seven little, eight little, nine little apples, (wiggle each finger 7-9)
10 little apples falling from the tree! (wiggle all 10 fingers and make them fall down)
Count them, count them, (wave hands back and forth)
Count them with me.
Count them, count them,
Count them with me.
Count them, count them,
Count them with me.
Count the little apples falling from the tree! (wiggle all 10 fingers and make them fall down)
Watch the video here! https://youtu.be/Zw5e4zrCzeg
5 Five Red Apples
Five red apples hanging in a tree (Hold up five fingers)
The juiciest apples you ever did see.
The wind came by and gave an angry frown (Fingers flutter downward)
And one little apple came tumbling down (One finger falls)
Four red apples, hanging in a tree, etc.
This is a great one to act out with the "apples" in The Apple Box!
6 All Around the Apple Tree
To the tune of "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush"
Here we go round the apple tree, the apple tree, the apple tree
Here we go around the apple tree
On a frosty morning.
This is the way we climb the ladder
-pick the apples
-wash the apples
-peel the apples
-cook the apples
7 A Little Apple Seed
To the tune of "The Itsy Bitsy Spider"
Once a little apple seed was planted in the ground.
Down came the soft rain, falling all around.
Out came the sun as bright as bright could be
And that little apple seed grew to be an apple tree!
8 Climbing Up the Apple Tree
Climbing up the apple tree, (climb in place)
Swinging on a limb! (Raise arms above head, away left and right)
If I hear a robin, I may (cup hand near ear)
Sing along with him! (sing tra la la)
'And Robin, if you fly away, (Put hands over eyes)
Here's what I think I'll do: (Point with index finger)
I'll wish a pair of sparrow wings (gently flap arms at side and move around)
And fly away with you!
9 Here is an Apple
(make circle with thumb and pointer) Here is an apple
(make circle with other thumb and pointer) and here is an apple
(Make circle with arms) and a great big apple I see
Now let's count the apples we've made
(repeat above actions) 1 - 2 - 3 !
10 Juicy Apples
To the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
Apples juicy, Apples round,
On the tees and on the ground.
Apples yellow, Apples red,
Apple juice or pie and bread.
Apples crunchy, Apples sweet,
Apples are so good to eat!
11 Falling Apples
To the tune of "London Bridge is Falling Down"
See the apples falling down (Use arm motions, Raise hands in air)
Falling down, falling down
See the apples falling down.
Down to the ground.
Pick the apples and throw them up.
Throw them up, throw them up
Pick the apples and throw them up
Up to the sky
This is a great one to act out with the "apples" in The Apple Box!
12 Do You Know the Apple Man?
To the tune of "The Muffin Man"
Oh, do you know the apple man,
the apple man, the apple man?
Oh, do you know the apple man
who likes to play with me?
Oh, he has a great big smile,
a great big smile, a great big smile,
Oh, he has a great big smile
and likes to play with me.
13 Ten Red Apples
Here I have five apples. (hold up five fingers on right hand)
And here are five again. (hold up both hands)
How many apples altogether?
Why, five and five make ten!
14 Five Red Apples
Five red apples in a grocery store
Aiden bought one & then there were 4
Four red apples on an apple tree
Deja ate one & then there were 3
Three red apples. What did Sophie do?
Why she ate one & then there were 2
Two red apples ripening in the sun
Isaac ate one, & now there was one
One red apple & now we are done
I ate the last one & now there are none!
*It can be fun to substitute your child's name and names of family and friends.
This is a great one to act out with the "apples" in The Apple Box!
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