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🌟 Join the Pre-K Printables Club for Unlimited Access to All Apple-Themed Resources! 🌟
Want even more fun activities for your classroom? As a Pre-K Printables Club Member, you get exclusive access to all our printable apple-themed resources, activity instruction pages, and member exclusives. Join the Pre-K Printables Club Today ! |
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Apple StampingApple stamping is a fun way to incorporate art into your apple theme.
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Apple Stamping Barrel Craft
Reader Tara N. shared this photo of the barrels of apples her kids created using apples as stamps.
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Fingerprint ApplesCommunity Member Jenny T. shared this photo of a craft her kids created. Simply cut slits into the cardboard tube "trunks" to support the bow, They used fingerprints to add apples to the trees, so cute!
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Paper Plate Apple Pie
Get your little ones into the fall spirit with this adorable Apple Pie Paper Plate Craft! Perfect for preschoolers, this simple and fun activity will have them practicing fine motor skills while creating a sweet apple pie masterpiece. View Member Instructions
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Stained Glass AppleCreate a stained glass apple, you will need an apple frame cut from construction paper, two pieces of clear contact paper, red/yellow/green pieces of tissue paper. Lay down one piece of contact paper, place the apple frame and have the child place the tissue paper one at a time onto the apple frame covering all the clear space. Once completed cover it with remaining contact paper and display in your windows.
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Apple Still Life
Set up a bowl of different colored apples on the table. Put out various art materials
(crayons, markers, water colors and paper). Invite children to create what they see. View Member Instructions |
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Apple Pie Stand*Create an Apple Stand, or Apple Pie Stand. Add pie plates, Felt Crusts, and plenty of Baking Supplies (Small Cookie Sheets, Mixing Bowls, Measuring Cups, and Spoons).
The Pre-K Printable Fun Dramatic Play Pie Stand Set makes it easy to create fun felt apple pies and includes all of the props you'll need to create your own pie stand! You can even use this set to print your own play food!
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Our member Sherry W. of First Friends Family Day Care shared this adorable pie making set up.
Sherry set out pie tins, pom pom apple pie filling and her own pie crust toppers. |
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Sherry also provided old spice jars to add to the apple pie making fun!
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Don't forget your rolling pins, measuring cups, spoons, and other making tools!
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Farmers Market*
A Farmers Market Dramatic Play invitation is a great addition to your activities this week. A couple tables, signs, and props from the classroom and you're ready to play!
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Johnny Appleseed Dress UpHave children dress up like Johnny Appleseed by adding some lightweight pots kids can use as hats, messenger bags and some vest and then pretend to plant apple trees. This costume is available on amazon.
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Invitation to Build an OrchardAdd materials for children to create an orchard in the block center. Add small pretend apples (or red, green, and yellow pom poms), trees, and other items for inspiration. Encourage children to build a fence around the orchard with blocks.
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Apple Structures
Engage and inspire your preschool students with these creative Apple Structures! Build fine motor skills and foster creativity as you explore various apple-themed craft projects and activities. Perfect for preschool teachers looking to add a touch of fun to their curriculum. View Member Instructions
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Apple STEM Snack
This Apple STEM Snack is a great addition to your activities for this theme! Get your preschoolers engaged in planning and constructing their very own snack skyscraper and then they get to deconstruct as they eat a healthy snack.
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Ten Apples on TopTape pictures of apples onto blocks and see if the child can stack 10 blocks high. View Member Instructions
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Seek and Find Letter Matching*
Club member Sheena W. transformed the Apple Letter Seek and Find game from the Apples Preschool Activity pack into a sensory activity. She filled her sensory bin with paper grass, then hid the letters inside. As each letter was found her preschooler marked it on the recording sheet using a dot marker.
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Apple Preschool Activity Pack
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Sand Tray Letter Practice*
Set up an invitation to practice writing letters using letter formation cards, and a simple writing tray with a base of sand or salt. For this activity we reduced the print size on our letter formation mats to make the perfect sized cards for tracing.
For some added apple fun you can add a little cinnamon. Colored sand can often be found in the craft section of department stores or dollar stores. |
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Apple Letter SortingApple Letter Sorting Activity from Community Member Sherry W. She used little erasers and wrote the letters on them.
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Beginning Letter Sounds Sweep and Find*
Pair the first letter sounds page from the
Apples Preschool Activity pack with the seek and find sheet and colored sand to create this fun invitation! Simply pace the seek and find sheet on a tray and cover with sand. Provide a paint brush for children to sweep the sand and find letters. When a letter is found, encourage the preschooler to find the object that has the matching beginning sound and mark with manipulative of your choice. |
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Apple StampingCommunity Member Sherry W of First Friends Family Child Care. She added Stamps and stamp pads for children to create the word APPLES. I love that she included both green and red colors for the stamps.
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3-Part Apple Nomenclature Cards*
Use the 3-part cards included in our Apples Preschool Activity pack as a matching game to support literacy development. These cards can also be used along with apple exploration invitations such as an apple investigation, making applesauce, or making apple pies.
New to 3-part cards? Find out some more fun ways to use these cards here. |
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Apple Name Building*
Club Member Sheena W used the Apple Sight Words Editable pack to create a name building activity for her preschooler. This editable set let's you add your own words (or letters) to the cards and mats in the set to make your own literacy activities.
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Apple Syllable Sort*
Support preschool literacy development with these hands-on syllable sort mats, included in our Apples Preschool Activity Pack
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Included in our Apple Preschool Activities Pack
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The Apple Pie Tree Story Time Activity
Our The Apple Pie Tree Pre-K Book Companion activity pack is a great pick for this theme! In addition to the included language & literacy activities this pack has a hands-on printable activity that explores the life cycle of an apple tree.
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How to Make an Apple Pie & See the World Pre-K Book Companion
Pair our How to Make an Apple Pie & See the World Pre-K Book Companion activity pack with the book How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman. This book and activity are a great addition to an Apples Theme.
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Apple Barrel Counting Mats*
Practice counting Apples using our Counting Cards from our Apples Preschool Activity pack . For this activity you could also gather 10 barrels or buckets and some plastic apples (or the paper apples from this set). Mark each barrel with a number from 1-10, then invite preschoolers to fill each barrel with the number of apples on the outside of the bin.
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Apple Preschool Activity Pack
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Apple PatterningCommunity Member Tanya's Family Daycare shared some of the Apple Patterning/Sorting/Counting fun from her program.
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Apples Counting BinCommunity Member Tanya's Family Daycare shared this fun math counting sensory bin.
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Counting Apples 1-20Use this counting mat and cards from the our Apples Preschool Activity pack along with pom poms, mini erasers, play dough or your own fun counters to practice counting from 1-20!
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Apples Preschool Activity Pack
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Apple GraphingUsing a variety of different sizes and colors of apples, create a graph based on the apples you have.
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Apple Picking and Sorting
Create a construction paper tree and place red, yellow and green pom poms on the tree. Invite preschoolers to use tweezers to "pick" an apple off the tree and sort them by color by placing them into a matching colored cup. View Member Instructions
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Weigh Apples on a ScaleSet up a weighing station with a scale and some apples. Try for apples in a variety of sizes. Preschoolers can weigh apples and make size comparisons. Challenge them to find out how many apples will make 1 lb. Do green apples weigh more than red apples?
Extend by brain storming other ways the apples can be measured. **Teacher Tip: A digital kitchen scale has many uses in the classroom and it is a great tool for guided activities as well as independent exploration! View Member Instructions |
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Apples as Standard Units of MeasurementUse apples to measure objects or people. Line apples up in a row next to the object being measured. Count up how many apples long the object is. View Member Instructions
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Apple Pie Play Dough
Our Apple Pie Play Dough Recipe is a treat for the senses and excellent for fine motor development! This dough smells AH-MAZING and feels so soft. Visit our blog post to get step by step directions.
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Make an apple pie!
Baking is a fun way to explore science! Check out this easy to make apple pie recipe. Members also have access to step by step visual recipe card!
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Apple Science ActivitiesExplore Apples through investigations that support children in learning about the scientific process. Our apple science pack includes step-by-step investigation instructions, colorful posters, and forms for recording results.
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Apple Science Activities
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Taste TestingCommunity Member Sarah C. of Mi Escuelita Bilingual Preschool & Childcare invited her preschoolers to an apple taste test!
While engaging in this activity encourage a variety of vocabulary to describe the taste, texture, and color of each type of apple. After the taste test encourage children to share about their experience. After asking what their favorite was, ask them to use one word to describe ___ color apple (randomly assign a color). Extension: Consider a blind taste test after the initial activity. See if they can guess which apple they are tasting without looking. |
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*Parts of an AppleLearn the parts of an apple and label them with this printable included in the apple science activity pack.
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Apple Science Activities
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Apple Tree Through the Seasons Member Cassandra shared this invitation she created using our Apple Tree Through the Seasons activity along with a book to compliment the activity.
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Explore Apples with all 5 SensesStudying apples creates a fun opportunity to explore using all 5 senses. Set up an invitation to explore an apple using all 5 senses in one activity or spread throughout the week focusing on a different sense each day.
When smelling the apple, try smelling an uncut apple, cut apple, and the leaves from an apple. For touch be sure to touch the outside skin, inside flesh, core, seeds, and leaves. For sound challenge children to consider if an apple sounds the same when bitten whole, eaten in slices, and eaten as applesauce. |
Apple Science Activities
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Letter Dough MatsCombine literacy development and fine motor development with these Alphabet Dough Mats. Add them all to your dough center at once or choose mats to compliment your theme.
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Alphabet Dough Mats
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Go Apple PickingAre you ready for a fun and educational field trip? Consider going Apple Picking! Whether you visit a local orchard or pick apples from your very own apple tree, this hands-on activity allows preschoolers to engage with nature, learn about the importance of farming, and experience the joy of harvesting their own fresh apples. View Member Instructions
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Dough Seek and FindHere is another fun way to build fine motor skills!
Hide plastic letters in play dough, then invite preschoolers to find and record them on an apple themed alphabet recording sheet. |
Apple Preschool Activities
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Trace & Color an Apple TreePractice coordination, following a line, and pencil grip with a fun apple tree Trace & Color page. This page is one of 13 included in the
Trace & Color Activity Pack. |
Trace and Color Activities
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Color, Cut, and Glue ApplesSet up this invitation for your preschooler to practice cutting (hand-eye coordination, fine motor) and then paste the apples to the page. This page is included in the I Can Color, Cut, and Paste a Scene Activity Pack.
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Color Cut and Paste a Scene Activity Pack
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Fall Dough MatsAdd some yellow, red, and green play dough to your dough center along with our apple tree mat to encourage children to shape dough into small balls to add to the tree and barrel.
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Fall Dough Mats
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Apple Cake Walk!
Get those bodies moving! Take your sight word activities outside. Create a gross motor relay, or music walk type activity like the pictured one using our Editable Apple Sight Word Set.
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Editable Apple Sight Word Activities
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Apple Orchard Gathering GameIn the Preschool Apple Orchard Gathering Game, children will have fun gathering apples using different parts of their body. This activity aims to develop motor skills, balance, and coordination. Children will practice carrying apples under their arm, chin, and on their head, and place them in a basket. View Member Instructions
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Indoor Apple PickingThe Preschool Indoor Apple Picking Activity allows children to engage in pretend play as they gather toy apples from a tree on the floor. This activity promotes physical movement and body coordination as children bend, squat, and reach for the apples. Incorporate cognitive development by using an assortment of colors or write numbers/letters on the apples for identification. View Member Instructions
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Apple BalancingChallenge children to stack apples! This would be a fun activity to pair with your favorite apple themed book, such as 10 Apples up on Top by Dr. Seuss. For this activity you will need several apples, in different sizes if you have them! Consider using real apples as they provide natural obstacles and have a nice weight to them for this activity. Apples that will be later used for applesauce would be great for this activity. View Member Instructions
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Look into visiting a local orchard where you and your students can take a closer look at apples and possibly harvest some. Another option is to go to a farmers market, be sure to support your students by talking to the farmers about their apple crops. While visiting a farmers market or orchard, see how many different type of apples or apple products you can find. View Member Instructions
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What Can You Make With Apples?
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Apple Themed CalendarEasily update your calendar to reflect your Apple Theme with this set of calendar cards found inside our fall calendar cards set.
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Fall Calendar Preschool Games
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Positive Student NotesShow your students you recognize their hard work with these fun Apple themed positive student notes! Included in the Year of Positive Student Notes pack
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Positive Student Notes
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Parent Engagement Story Cards
Get parents and families in on the Apple learning fun with the activities featured in the September Parent Engagement Newsletter from my Parent Engagement Newsletters set.
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Parent Engagement Newsletters
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