Apple's Friends Starter Activities
Here are some Starter activities to help children prepare for Apple’s Friends sessions. Choose the one which is most suitable for your class and the particular activity that you are going to do. You can use the same Starter each week – and create a ritual for starting the sessions – or try different ones, depending on what you find most appropriate for the theme or for the moment. You can also ask your children which Starters they most enjoy and find most helpful. Feel free to add your own ideas.
2. Apple says
This is the game Simon Says, substituting Apple for Simon. Tell the children to stand up. They must do whatever Apple tells them to do (Apple says touch your toes, Apple says smile, and so on), but if you omit the words ‘Apple says’, they must remain still. Any child who obeys a command without ‘Apple says’ has got it wrong and you must decide in advance whether this means that they are out of the game or whether you will just laugh because they were distracted.