Seasonal Finger Plays/Rhymes - Autumn

The summer seems to have barely been and although it's hot today, with blue skies, I can feel that harvest time has started and autumn is just around the corner.

The Apple Tree
Here is the apple tree with its leaves so green.(stand tall with arms outstretched like branches)
Here are the apples that hang in between. (curl up hands into fists and rotate to make little circles to show apples hanging)
When the wind blows, the apples will fall. (wave arms like branches blowing in the wind and drop hands down)
Here is a basket to gather them all. (hold arms in front like a basket to hold apples)

Autumn
The leaves are floating gently down,(wave arms up and then down)
They make a soft bed on the ground. (crouch down or if sitting hands on lap)
Then 'whoo whoo' (wave arms about and flap to show the wind)
The wind comes whistling by,
And sends them dancing back to the sky.(hands flutter and dance upwards)

The Whirling Leaves
(Flutter fingers above head and down to the ground repeatedly)
The little leaves are whirling round, round, round,
The little leaves are whirling round,
Falling to the ground.
Round, round, round, round,(flutter fingers round and down)
Falling to the ground.
(with older children get them to be each leaf)