Apple Printables and Activities

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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Apple Learning Activities

With summer coming on in the Northern Hemisphere, I feel like we all need some fun activities we can do with one kid at home or a bunch in a classroom when it’s too hot to go outside (I guess you can say the same for if it’s too cold to go out in the Southern Hemisphere, too).

This disaster island Lego challenge from Lego Librarian was designed to be done with a Lego club, but you can do it in a classroom if you have bricks handy, or at home with one or two kids.

The idea is that first the kids each design their own island, with a given amount of time where that is the only prompt.

Then each person draws a disaster card. You can use the ones from Lego Librarian or make up your own. These are things like there’s a storm coming so you need to build a strong shelter, or there’s a rescue plane so you need to build something so they will see you.

There’s a whole bunch of ideas, which should get kids thinking creatively about ways to alter their islands for whatever situations you throw at them.

If you’re doing this with just one or two kids, the idea is the same, or you could have them draw several cards over a session if they want to keep the fun going.

This is a great low prep STEM activity for kids that should get them thinking creatively about how to solve problems. It’s a great idea to have the kids explain what they did to solve their particular problem, too, and why they think that will help.

Even though it won’t be a surprise what’s going to happen after the first time you play it, this is one you can do again and again because the kids will probably draw different cards.

Get all the details and a printable list of challenge prompts at Lego Librarian.

[Photo: Lego Librarian]

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