Apple season is upon us! Have some apple themed learning fun with your preschool, pre k, kindergarten, or first grade child with this simple ABC Apple Lacing Craft. This apple activity is great for fine motor skills and working on letter recognition!
Apple Lacing Craft
We love doing all things apple in September! Not only do themed activities help keep toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students engaged, but it makes learning fun! This super cute educational activity is both an apple activity and an apple craft in one! As children complete the Apple Lacing Craft they will practicing the alphabet from A to Z.
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 crafts for preschoolers 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.
Alphabet Activity
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 Activities for Preschool
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!
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 Printables
Looking for more apple printables to go along with your theme? Check out these super cute free printables:
- Apple Sight Words Tree Activity
- Free printable alphabet strip for working on letter recognition
- Free Apple Math Worksheets
- Counting Apples Worksheet
- Apple Addition Coloring Worksheets
- Apple Counting Activity for Preschoolers
- Printable Apple ABC Game
- Apple Science Experiment Preschool
- Super cute Apple Playdough Mats to practice counting to 20
- Apple I Spy Preschool
- Apple Life Cycle Preschool Spinner
- Free Apple Worksheets for Preschoolers
- A is for Apple Printable Book for learning letter sounds
- Apple Life Cycle Printable Pack
- Fun Johnny Appleseed Activities
- Bubble Wrap Apple Tree Craft
- Easy Apple Core Craft
- Alphabet Apple Lacing
- September Art Projects for Preschoolers
- Lots of fun September Activities for Kids
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