Make learning to count fun with this engaging 5 Little Apples in a Tree visual learning activity! This interactive apple-themed resource is designed to help young learners practice counting, number recognition, following directions, colors, shapes, and early math skills in a fun and hands-on way.

Start with 5 apples on the tree and after you sing the song through, remove one apple and put it in the basket!

🍎 WHAT’S INCLUDED

Shape variation
Color variation (red, yellow, green, multi-colored)
Lyrics to the original song + link to listen to the song
Tree background

Use this activity during circle time, morning meeting, small groups, math centers, or one-on-one instruction. Encourage children to participate by finding and counting the apples together.

You can extend the activity by asking students to:

Find 1 apple to make an apple pie.
Find a specific color apple.
Find a specific shape apple.
Find a specific number of apples.

The included variations make it easy to reuse the activity while targeting different early learning skills.

🍎 SKILLS PRACTICED

This resource can be used to support:

Counting to 5
One-to-one correspondence
Number recognition
Early math skills
Quantity recognition
Color recognition
Shape recognition
Listening skills
Following directions
Vocabulary development
Interactive learning
Fine motor and visual attention skills

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