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.
1. Apple salad
The stories in Apple’s Friends feature six main characters – Apple, Tig, Leela, Sandy, Jill and Tommy. Tell the children to sit in a circle and then give each child in turn the name of a character. When you say ‘Tig’, all the children named Tig change places – and so on with the other names. Children love this game! It is also very useful for splitting up groups of children who always sit together.