Apple Mural--Cut out a lg apple shape from a lg paper roll. Have the
children do apple printing on it. Use a variety of sizes and shapes and
colors - red, green, yellow. Tack apple print to wall and  play a variety of
games with the mural.
          1 - count the apple prints
          2 - find the print that is the largest/smallest
          3 - find the print that is the darkest/lightest
          4 - do any of the shapes look the same/different?
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The Little Red House with No Doors and No windows and a Star inside

There was once upon a time a little boy who was tired of all his toys and,
tired of all his play.

"What shall I do ?" He asked his mother.

And  his mother, who always knew beautiful things for little boys to do,
said, " You shall go on a journey and find a little red house with no doors
and no windows and a star inside."

This really made the little boy wonder. Usually his mother had good ideas,
but his thought that this one was very strange.

"Which way shall I go?" He asked his mother. "I don't know where to find a
little red house with no doors and no window ."

"Go down the lane past the farmer's house and over the hill," said his
mother, "and then hurry back as soon as you can and tell me all about your
journey."

So the little boy put on his cap and his jacket and started out.  He had
not gone very far down the lane when he came to a merry little girl dancing
in the sunshine. Her cheeks were like pink blooms petals and she was singing
like a robin.

"Do you know wher I shall find a little red house with no doors and no
windows and a star in inside?" asked the little boy.

The little girl laughed, "Ask my father, the farmer,"  she said. "Perhaps
he knows."

So the little boy went on until he came to the great brown barn  were the
farmer kept barrel of fat potatoes and baskets of yellow squashes and golden
pumpkins. The farmer himself stood in the doorway looking out over the green
pastures and yellow grain fields.

     "Do you know where I shall find a little red house with no doors and
no windows  and a star inside?" asked the little boy of the farmer.

The farmer laughed too. "I lived a great many years and I never saw one."
He chuckled, but ask Granny who lives at the foot of the hill. "She knows
how to  make molasses, taffy and popcorn balls, and red mitten! Perhaps she
can direct you."

So the little boy went on farther still, until he came to the Granny,
sitting in her pretty garden of herbs and marigolds. She was wrinkled as a
walnut and as smiling as the sunshine.