Apple Printables and Activities

August 26, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Apples are a fun theme in the fall because they are everywhere in the stores and also a symbol of school. So many bloggers have made apple themed projects, printables and activities, you could do an apple theme in the classroom for weeks!

Here are a few great sources from printable apple activities.

A Dab of Glue Will Do has a set of apple alphabet matching cards, which you use to match the upper case and lower case letter for each letter of the alphabet. This is a free printable.

Simple Fun for Kids offers a printable read, trace and connect worksheet with basic fall words to trace and connect to a picture of the thing (apple, tree, flower, etc.) They did a seven days of apple themed printables series, so check out the whole series here if you need more apple content.

Practice counting and associating numbers with their number words with this printable activity from Growing Book by Book. It goes with a book called Ten Red Apples, but you can use it with any apple-themed reading or unit study.

From ABCs to SATs has a great collection of apple themed activities and printables, including do a dot printables, sight word matching, a printable apple life cycle book, pattern matching, apple seed counting, cutting practice and more. These are great for preschool and kindergarten kiddos.

Fluffy Tots has a nice collection of apple printables, too, which includes number puzzles, counting activities and more (and a few free and a few paid options).

Speaking of pattern completion, there’s another printable on that theme from Tot Schooling that has kids continue the color pattern with dot markers (you could use regular markers or crayons if you don’t have dot markers handy).

If you’re willing to pay a bit for your activities, I found a couple of Montessori printable sets, from Montessori Nature and Montessori Inspired Printables, which include three-part cards, life cycle information and more.

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Easy Lacing Cards to Make for Kids

Lacing is a great fine motor activity, and most kids go through a phase where they enjoy working with lacing cards. It helps promote focus and is a great quiet activity for kids to do in the car or to fill time in the classroom. And of course knowing how to lace is the beginning of knowing how to sew, which is great for all kids to learn (more on teaching kids to sew here).

There are lots of ways to make your own lacing cards. This one is just a pin but it’s easy to make lacing cards with any shape a child is into using cardboard and a nail to poke the holes. This could be fun for letter and number recognition or spelling the child’s name. Or try this version from Hey Azka, which uses a hole punch to make bigger holes so you can lace with shoe laces.

You can also just do lacing cards with paper, but it’s a great idea to print them on card stock and/or laminate them to make them sturdier for little hands. Homeschool Share has a set of alphabet lacing cards, which are free with email signup. Deceptively Educational has a set of number lacing cards with numbers 0 to 10.

Picklebums has some basic shape lacing cards, too.

Living Life and Learning has a bunch of cute printable lacing cards, including back to school designs, shoes kids can lace and learn to tie and ocean themed lacing cards. She also has tips for making your own lacing cards.

A Rose Tinted World made their lacing cards with craft foam, which makes them a little more durable than paper and you can cut it more easily than cardboard. They used a die cutting machine but you can also cut shapes by hand.

I also love the cat and mouse cards from Seam Whisperer. They also have some spring themed designs. So cute!

If you want to make lacing cards that are more open ended, check out this tutorial form Pretty Life Girls to make lacing cards that are more like geo boards. Theirs are made with wood but you can also do this with cardboard, craft foam or card stock.

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