Activity: Ten Apples Up On Top by Dr. Seuss

Sorry for not posting in the past year.  I actually forgot about this blog so bad teacher :)

First of all, Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!  I love Ten Apples Up On Top.  This is an easy to prepare activity that covers counting to 10, patterning, visual discrimination and a bit of review thrown in.

Supplies:
Ten Apples up On Top by Dr. Seuss
White paper plates
Crayons
Red, yellow and green papers
Sentence strips
Glue

Prep Time:

Find a good outline of an apple.  You can use this one or another.

Copy the apple onto the red, yellow and green papers.  Cut the apples out--don't worry about the lines--just cut them out in a square.

Kid time:

Read the book and review (because you probably went over apples in the fall) apple colors (red, green, and yellow)



Have the children make self- portraits by drawing their faces on the paper plates and coloring them.

Then invite the children to count out 10 paper apples of various colors.  To challenge higher students, have them make an ABAB, AABB ABCABC pattern of apple colors.  Have the children glue the apples on the sentence strip and finally staple the sentence strip to the top part of the paper plate so the children can have "ten apples" on top of the head.