1. Focus Group • Take the baked apples
and let the children
• Infants/ toddlers
smash them with their
Health Safety fingers, making apple
sauce. Let them taste
• Before conducting this the sauce.
activity, make sure no
one has allergies to • Sing some songs about
apples apples – “Five Red
Apples” and “Shake,
Materials Required Shake the Apple Tree”
Procedure
• Variety of apples Before beginning this activity,
(different colours, make sure all the children have
textures, tastes) washed their hands.
• Knives • First take all the apples
and pass it to everyone
• Plates
to look, touch and smell.
• Small bowls
• Wash and peel the
• Baked apples apples, cut them in half,
and pass around to
• Spoons explore the inside. Talk Nutritional Benefits
about the pits and seeds.
• Exploring food and taste
• Cut the different apples
into small pieces and let • Help them to make healthy
the children explore the choices
different tastes. According to Canada’s Food Guide,
Adaptation for Infants:

2. The Learning Outcome The juiciest apples you ever  http://www.shutterstock.c
did see. om/pic-86557393/stock-
• Where apples come from The wind came by and gave photo-three-lovely-
an angry frown. (Fingers babies-eating-apples-
• Nutritional value
flutter downward) isolated.html
• Different shapes, colours, and And one little apple came
tumbling down (One finger  http://free-
textures of apples
falls) extras.com/images/apple
• What are on the inside of Four red apples, hanging in a s-555.htm
apples (pits, seeds) tree, etc.
 http://www.visualphotos.
• Different tastes of apples com/image/2x3563879/b
(sour, sweet, tasteless) When you sing these songs, abies_with_apples
alternate between the colours
• Things we can do with apples red, yellow and green to help  http://echolife.files.wordp
(make apple sauce, apple the children learn the colours. ress.com/2010/07/fresh_
juice, apple pie) cut_apples1.jpg?
w=690&h=465
Songs about Apples
• “Shake, Shake the Apple
Tree” HEALTH AND
Shake, shake the apple tree
Apples red and juicy
Songs from:
 http://www.preschooledu
WELLNESS:
Introducing Apples to
One for you, one for me cation.com/sapple.shtml
Shake, shake the apple tree
 http://play.kindermusik.c
om/en/tracks/4210-two- Infants & Toddlers
• “Five Red Apples” little-applesshake-shake-
the-apple-tree/
Five red apples hanging in a
Pictures from:
tree. (Hold up five fingers)

3. By: Semira, Timaj,
Group Members-
Mbongo, Semira
Hemamalie, Timaj