Focus Group

• Infants/ toddlers

Health Safety

• Before conducting this

activity, make sure no one has allergies to apples

Materials Required

• Variety of apples

(different colours, textures, tastes)

• Knives

• Plates

• Small bowls

• Baked apples

• Spoons

Procedure

Before beginning this activity, make sure all the children have washed their hands.

• First take all the apples

and pass it to everyone to look, touch and smell.

• Wash and peel the

apples, cut them in half, and pass around to explore the inside. Talk about the pits and seeds.

• Cut the different apples

into small pieces and let the children explore the different tastes.

Adaptation for Infants:

• Take the baked apples

and let the children smash them with their fingers, making apple sauce. Let them taste the sauce.

• Sing some songs about

apples – “Five Red Apples” and “Shake, Shake the Apple Tree”

Nutritional Benefits

• Exploring food and taste

• Help them to make healthy

choices

According to Canada’s Food Guide,

The Learning Outcome

• Where apples come from

• Nutritional value

• Different shapes, colours, and

textures of apples

• What are on the inside of

apples (pits, seeds)

• Different tastes of apples

(sour, sweet, tasteless)

• Things we can do with apples

(make apple sauce, apple juice, apple pie)

Songs about Apples

• “Shake, Shake the Apple

Tree”

Shake, shake the apple treeApples red and juicyOne for you, one for meShake, shake the apple tree

• “Five Red Apples”

Five red apples hanging in a tree. (Hold up five fingers)

The juiciest apples you ever did see.The wind came by and gave an angry frown. (Fingers flutter downward)And one little apple came tumbling down (One finger falls)Four red apples , hanging in a tree, etc.

When you sing these songs, alternate between the colours red, yellow and green to help the children learn the colours.

Songs from :

http://www.preschooledu cation.com/sapple.shtml

http://play.kindermusik.c om/en/tracks/4210-two-little-applesshake-shake-the-apple-tree/

Pictures from:

http://www.shutterstock.c om/pic-86557393/stock-photo-three-lovely-babies-eating-apples-isolated.html

http://free- extras.com/images/apples-555.htm

http://www.visualphotos. com/image/2x3563879/babies_with_apples

http://echolife.files.wordp ress.com/2010/07/fresh_cut_apples1.jpg?w=690&h=465

HEALTH AND WELLNESS:

Introducing Apples to Infants & Toddlers

By: Semira, Timaj, Group Members-

Mbongo, Semira

Hemamalie, Timaj