This apple craft is a super clever and fun way to celebrate September, back to school, and sneak in some fun alpahbet practice all at the same time! This apple lacing craft is great for working on fine motor skills while creating a cool apple craft for preschoolers, toddlers, and kindergartners at the same time! So grab a couple simple supplies you may already have on hand and get ready for a fun alphabet activity for kids!
Apple Lacing Craft
We love doing all things apple in September! Not only do apple theme activities help keep preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students stay engaged, but it makes learning fun too! This super cute, educational apple activity is both an alphabet activity and an apple craft all-in-one! As children complete the Apple Lacing Craft they will practicing fine motor skills and letter recognition as they weave their yarn through the alphabet from A to Z. Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschool – you will love this apple craft for kids. Use this as a first week of school activity or a cute back to school craft!
Alphabet Activity
Lacing activities are a wonderful and simple way to strengthen fine motor skills! Manipulating the string in and out of holes encourages various grasping patterns and hand-eye coordination. So just why are fine motor skills important? The stronger the fine motor muscles in your child’s wrist, fingers, and hand, the easier writing will be! So work on those fine motor skills…. along with the ABC’s with this Alphabet Apple Lacing Activity!
Apple Craft for Kids
To make your own ABC Craft for September you’ll need the following simple craft materials:
- red paper plate
- scissors
- hole punch
- sharpie
- construction paper
- ribbon
- glue
Apple Craft
Begin your apple craft for kindergarten by cutting out the middle of the red paper plate. This part is optional, but I love seeing the ribbon criss-cross across the apple.
Next hole punch 26 holes around the paper plate- not too far apart, but not too close. It may take a few paper plates to figure out how close you need the holes to go all around (speaking from experience here!). Then, write a letter of the alphabet at each hole in either alphabetical order or random order.
From construction paper, cut out an apple stem and green leaf. Glue to the top of the apple.
Find A on the paper plate and tie one end of the spool of ribbon.
Apple Craft for Preschoolers
Now your child is ready to work on letter recognition and fine motor skills! If your student needs help, sing through the alphabet a couple of times so your child can find the letter. As they thread the ribbon through each hole, talk about the letter and the sound it makes; this is a great way to sneak in some phonics work, too!
This is such a cute apple activity for kindergarten that works great for parents, teachers, and homeschoolers to make learning FUN!
Apple Activity for Preschoolers
Continue threading the ribbon through the holes until all the holes have been used up and your child has laced through the alphabet.
Feel free to switch this activity up to work on lowercase letters, numbers, or even the letters of your child’s name! This is such a fun idea to add to an apple theme, back to school projects, first day of school, or September ideas!
Plus don’t miss these handy, free printable alphabet worksheets to practice tracing letters.
Paper Plate Craft Ideas
Check out these other fun paper plate learning activities for kids of all ages!
- A to Z of the best Alphabet Paper Plate Crafts
- Paper Plate Multiplication Wheel
- Clever Paper Plate Name Web
- Apple Craft to learn about the parts of the apple
- Fun Paper Plate Color Wheel
- Apple Core Paper Plate Craft
Apple Math
Looking for more fun apple and activities and free apple printables? You will love these apple activities for kindergarten and apple activities for preschoolers!
- Math Apple Worksheets (addition / subtraction)
- Super cute and FREE Apple Apple Worksheets Preschool
- Apple Roll and Cover Dice Game
- Hole-Punching, Count to 20 Apple Activities for Preschoolers – free printable
- Super cute Apple Playdough Mats to practice counting
- Apple Addition Coloring Worksheets
- Number Bonds Apple Math
- Apple Counting Worksheet
- Free Printable Multiplication Games
Apple Activities
- Letter A Worksheets, printables, and games for kids
- Apple Themed Free Alpahbet Strip pdf Activity
- Alphbet Puzzles – Apple Activities for Preschoolers
- Hands-on Apple Sight Words Tree
- Synonyms and Antonyms Worksheets pdf with a fun Apple theme
- Apple Letter A Activity sorting upper and lowercase letters for pre-k and kindergarten
- Printable Apple Compound Words Worksheet
- Find the Letter Apple Tracing Worksheets
- A is for Apple Printable Book for working on beginning sounds – print in black and white or color
- Color the correct apples in these Nouns and Verbs Worksheets
- Apple Theme BUNDLE
Apple Printables
- Free Apple Life Cycle Printable Pack
- Printable Apple Life Cycle Spinner
- Simple Johnny Appleseed Coloring Page
- Fun Johnny Appleseed Activities
- Free Printable Apple Experiment Worksheet
- I Spy Preschool Apple Worksheets
Apple Crafts for Kids
- Cute Apple Handprint Craft for Kids – w/ free printable
- Easy Apple Core and torn paper Paper Plate Apple Craft
- Alphabet Lacing Apple Craft
- Clever Bubble Wrap Apple Craft
- Coffee Filter Apple Craft
- Awesome Apple Pie Playdough Recipe
- 3-in-1 Apple Activities for Toddlers
- Printable Apple Tray Counting and Writing
- Plus don’t miss this FUN Apple Crafts Preschool
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Happy to help! We have tons of resources all throughout our site… if you tell me which one you are looking for I can help you better. But in general use the drop down menu at the top of the page or the search bar at the top right. Then click on the post with the resource that interests you. See ideas or download printables by scrolling to the bottom of the posts and depending on the post either enter email address in box to get PDF sent to your email or click on TEXT LINK under terms of use to download PDF directly. Enjoy!
Beth, I highly appreciate your assistance. Your ideas are very helpful. All the resources always save me a lot of time. Many thanks for your support.