Johnny Appleseed Fingerplay

Materials

none

Instructions

* Johnny Appleseed's birthday is September 26th.
Sing the following song, making the appropriate corresponding gestures.
Once Johnny had an apple seed (make a seed with fingertips)
He planted in the ground. (pat floor)
Out came the sun (raise arms in a circle)
And down came the rain, (make fingers move up and down)
Up came the apple tree, (raise hand up from floor)
And Johnny began again. (make a seed again)
More to do Art: Cut an apple in half. Dip the apple half in tempera paint using a plastic
fork to hold it, and make apple prints on paper.