We then count and sort by color, size, and shape. Then we cook and bake and complete our unit with a program for parents where we have several stores, each one selling an apple product. The children are the storekeepers. Put it in a pot. Each child makes a collage on a very large apple-shaped piece of red construction paper.
Parents send in scraps of used gift wrap, ribbon, wallpaper.
We add cotton balls, stickers, seeds, etc. Have the children each paint the bottoms of two paper plates red. Encourage a star shape, but not necessary. When dry, staple the two plates together on the left side using about three staples to form an apple shaped book. Well that's what you do here, except this will be an apple shape.