Bubblegum Song

Bubblegum, bubblegum, chewy chewy chewy chewy chewy bubblegum.
Bubblegum, bubblegum, chewy chewy chewy chewy chewy bubblegum.
I love it! I love it! Chewy chewy chewy chewy chewy bubblegum.
I love it! I love it! Chewy chewy chewy chewy chewy bubblegum.

This song doesn't look nearly as fun as it is to sing. (Sorry I don't have a tune to relate it to.) While you are singing you pretend you have a big wad a bubblegum in your hands that you are playing with. Put them together and pull them apart. When you get to the "I love it" part be dramatic and throw your hands out wide like you would for a big hug. (I didn't make up the actions, I just play along.) This song is fun because you start out at a regular speed and get faster and faster and faster.

Apple # Activity

Apple Activity-Numbers
Have apples # 1-10 laminated (optional-they last longer). Staple them on craft sticks. Take a green pipe cleaner and cut it small enough to hide behind the apples. Have one child leave the room while you tape the "worm" to the back of one apple. The child comes back into the room and says, "Little worm, little worm are you behind # ___?" You turn over the apple he asked about and continue until you find the worm. If you have enough children in you preschool, let the children hold the apples in front of the room. It will help them to recognize the # as well.

One Little Apple

One little apple round and red,
Went kerplop on ______'s head,
One little apple round and red,
Went kerplop on ______'s head.

I put a picture of an apple laminated on the end of a craft stick and go around the circle touching the kids on the head as I say their name. You could just use a real apple and pretend it fell on their head. You can use this as a transition to excuse children from the circle to go outside, wash their hands for snack, etc.

Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?

Who Stole the Cookie From the Cookie Jar
You can make cookies out of paper or pellon (flannel board material) and put them in a cookie jar. You could write the childrens' names on the cookies and pull out a name and begin the song. After singing about that child, have them come up and draw the next child who "stole the cookie from the cookie jar".
Class-"Bobby stole the cookie from the cookie jar."
Bobby-"Who me?"
Class-"Yes, you!"
Bobby-"It couldn't be!"
Class-"Then who?"

This could be used as a transition to excuse children from the circle.

Way Up High in the Apple Tree

Make a picture of an apple tree and laminate it. Have 5 apples with smiley faces on them laminated also. You have to be able to remove them. Put velcro on the apples and stick them to the tree.
Way up high in the apple tree.
I saw 5 apples smiling down on me.
So I shook that tree as hard as I could.
Down came 1 apple, mmm mmm good.
(You remove one apple at a time until they are all gone. I let my children take turns shaking the paper and removing the apples.)