Apple Activities for Early Learners
It’s Apple picking season here in the Midwest. We’ve been once so far and we are planning to go again this week. Whenever we have a planned field trip I do my best to prepare my children for what they will experience during the trip. Hence the following apple activities. And if you can’t get to the orchard this year these activities are equally engaging, just make an apple pie, light an Autumn scented candle and enjoy!
Number Cards and Apples
This DIY felt tree and apples are used for counting. You can make or use number cards and invite child to place the corresponding number of apples on the tree.
Extension: Use for addition and subtraction.
Apple Anatomy
DIY - Cardboard and printout of halved apple.
Invite child to read, match or label the parts of the apple.
Extension: use a real apple and invite child to identify the parts.
How do you experience an Apple?
Invite children to describe an apple using their 5 senses. Record their answers on the poster.
Extension: Older children can describe different varieties of apples. Predict the experience and record answers, then record actual experiences.
Balancing Bean Bags
DIY 10 felt bean bags. Read the book “Ten apples up on top!” and invite children to balance the bean bags on their head.
Extension: Invite children to walk the line or a circle while balancing a bean bag or bean bags on their head.
Life Cycle of an Apple Chart
Using a folder glue numbers 1-7 to the edge of the folder. Glue the life cycle steps to clothespins. Discuss the life cycle with your child. Invite them to clothespin the image to the correct step.
Extension: close the folder so the child cannot see the life cycle chart. Ask child to name the steps.
Seed Art
Draw the outline of an apple on a 1/2 sheet of construction paper. Invite the child to trace the outline with white glue. Give the child a varied selection of seeds. Invite the child to cover the glue with seeds.
Extension: Add additional apple anatomy and trace with the glue and seeds. Write the words - apple, seeds, stem and trace with glue and seeds.