Object: some apple seeds and a ripe apple.

Boys and girls, how many of you have ever heard the story of Johnny Appleseed? (Look for some volunteers to tell you.) Johnny Appleseed was a strange sort of man who wandered around in the wilderness of Pennsylvania and Ohio and Indiana, sometimes going barefoot, sometimes wearing a metal pot with a handle on it for a hat, and carrying a bag full of these. (Show them the apple seeds.) All across the countryside, where he saw farmers planting their crops, Johnny Appleseed would plant some of his seeds. He never aske…