1. Focus Group Procedure
Infants/ toddlers Before beginning this activity,
make sure all the children have
Health Safety washed their hands.
Before conducting this First take all the apples
activity, make sure no and pass it to everyone
one has allergies to to look, touch and smell.
apples Wash and peel the
apples, cut them in half, Nutritional Benefits
Materials Required
and pass around to
Exploring food and taste
Variety of apples explore the inside. Talk
Help them to make healthy
(different colours, about the pits and seeds.
choices
textures, tastes) Cut the different apples
Knives into small pieces and let The Learning Outcome
Plates the children explore the
Small bowls different tastes. Where apples come from
Baked apples Nutritional value
Adaptation for Infants: Different shapes, colours, and
Spoons
textures of apples
Take the baked apples
What are on the inside of
and let the children
apples (pits, seeds)
smash them with their
fingers, making apple Different tastes of apples
sauce. Let them taste (sour, sweet, tasteless)
the sauce. Things we can do with apples
Sing some songs about (make apple sauce, apple
apples – “Five Red juice, apple pie)
Apples” and “Shake,
Shake the Apple Tree”

2. Songs about Apples
HEALTH AND
“Shake, Shake the Apple
Tree” WELLNESS:
Songs from:
Shake, shake the apple tree Introducing Apples to
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Apples red and juicy
One for you, one for me
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Shake, shake the apple tree  http://play.kindermusik.c
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“Five Red Apples” little-applesshake-shake-
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Five red apples hanging in a Pictures from:
tree. (Hold up five fingers)
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The wind came by and gave photo-three-lovely-
an angry frown. (Fingers babies-eating-apples-
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And one little apple came
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Four red apples, hanging in a By: Semira, Timaj,
tree, etc.  http://www.visualphotos.
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the children learn the colours.
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