36 Apple Math Activities for Kids
It’s nearly autumn and back-to-school season. You know what that means—apples everywhere! Parents and teachers, we have some great apple math activities for you! The autumn season is the perfect time to incorporate a little apple math into your curriculum. Get creative with these 36 apple math activities that will stimulate the minds of your students or children. They are guaranteed to help them learn more about math while having fun!
Apple Math Activities for Kids
We have many ideas for toddlers and preschoolers, but you’ll find several ideas that’ll work for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. Learning math has never been more fun (or more appetizing)!
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Easy Apple Math Activities for Kids
Printable Apple Counting Cards
This fall, these free printable apple counting cards are a great tool to incorporate into your Montessori-style math lessons. Laminate them to make the cards sturdier, mainly if you use them in the classroom. Kids can use them to practice putting numbers in order, trace the numbers with their fingers, and practice counting skills.
This fingerprint apple math sheet is part of our Kindergarten and Preschool Apple Unit, and it’s perfect for practicing those counting skills in a hands-on way. Fingerprint math is so much fun; kids love it!
These apple playdough mats are an excellent resource to add to your math center in the classroom or at home. Use them to practice fine motor skills (pinching and rolling the dough into apple shapes and numbers) as well as counting.
Fall Apple Counting Busy Bag for Preschoolers
Print these free apple count and clip cards for use in your home or classroom. Just print the cards, laminate them, and provide some clothespins for clipping. Pinching the clothespin to open it is good fine motor practice for those little fingers.
You can use any number of manipulatives with these printable apple cards, such as glass beads, apple erasers, pencils, and more. Kids can use these cards to practice number recognition and counting in an engaging and hands-on way.
Fun Apple Math Ideas for Kids
Apple Tree Math Game from hellowonderful.co: Get the kids excited about math with this apple tree learning activity. They will learn to match the numbers on the apples to the math problems on the tree. This is such a cool way to practice addition, but you could make a set of cards for subtraction or even multiplication, too.
Apple Roll and Color Math Game from fantasticfunandlearning.com: This math game is great for practicing math skills from preschool through first grade. Kids can play with the die in a couple of different ways. They can color an apple as its shape is rolled on the die or just cover that apple until all the apples on their sheet are covered.
6 Apple Theme Math Activities from stayathomeeducator.com: Here are six fun apple-themed math activities for preschoolers, including counting, estimating, making shapes, and more. There are so many different ways to practice math skills!
Math Patterns Using Apple Prints from buggyandbuddy.com: Stamp out some apple prints to create patterns in bright, lovely colors. Pattern recognition is an essential early math skill, and this is such a fun way to practice it.
Apple Math Tasting and Graphing from fun-a-day.com: This is a terrific apple math activity for the classroom. Have each student bring in an apple in any color. Then, sort and graph them. Finally, have a taste test to see if there are differences in flavor among the different colors.
Math Activities for Preschoolers
Fine Motor Apple Math from fun-a-day.com: Use tweezers to place the pom-pom apples on the apple tree! Using tweezers is terrific fine motor practice for little hands. Simply roll the dice, and place that number of “apples” on the tree. Roll again, and repeat. Kids will love this activity.
10 Apples Up on Top Magnetic Math Game from stayathomeeducator.com: Turn Dr. Seuss’s famous book into a fun math game for the kids. They’ll love drawing pictures of themselves (or you could cut out a photo) and stacking apples on their heads as they roll the dice.
Apple Counting Mats from fantasticfunandlearning.com: Show numbers in several different ways with these engaging apple mats. There are 5 different ways to represent each number, including the word form, dice, a ten frame, and more.
Fingerprint Apple Counting Activity from lifeovercs.com: Kids will have a blast dipping their fingers into the paint for this fun counting activity. Use fingerprints to dab the appropriate number of fingerprints above each basket.
Apple Themed Math Activities
Math File Folder Game from itsybitsyfun.com: Practice addition up to 10 with this fun and free file folder game. This is a fantastic quiet time activity for kids to practice math or take it in the car to practice on the go.
Shape Apple Craft from nontoygifts.com: Are your toddlers and preschoolers learning their shapes? If so, this apple craft can come in handy! Kids can mix and match shapes to make all sorts of apples with stems and leaves. The craft focuses on circles, squares, triangles, ovals, rectangles, and hexagons to create totally adorable apples.
Apple Shape Sorting Worksheets from lookwerelearning.com: Use these apple-themed worksheets to work on shape identification. Each sheet focuses on a different shape (such as the rhombus or an octagon) that the kids find and color inside the apple.
Apple Number Matching Game from steamsational.com: Match clothespin numbers to their apple counterparts in this hands-on number identification activity. It’s great for fine motor practice as well.
Preschool Apple Math from teaching2and3yearolds.com: Here’s another version of the apple graphing activity mentioned above. Each student matches their apple to the colored paper and picks up an apple card to put in the pocket chart.
Counting Apples Busy Bag from theeducatorsspinonit.com: Use apple beads, pom-poms, apple erasers, etc., to make this cute busy bag for your preschooler. It’s like a worksheet the kids can do again and again. Set up the tree, place a number on the trunk, and use the red objects to make apples among the “leaves” of the tree.
Apple Activities for Math
Apple Tree Math for Toddlers and Preschoolers from rainydaymum.co.uk: Let toddlers and preschoolers practice number recognition and counting with this apple tree math activity. After you put it all together once, it’s a low-prep activity that kids can use for practice again and again.
Apple Array Practice for Second Grade from lookwerelearning.com: Arrays are an important tool in understanding addition, so this activity is perfect for 1st and 2nd graders, but younger children may enjoy it, too. This array addition worksheet is apple-themed for the fall and back-to-school season.
Math Story Pocket Chart for Fall from prekinders.com: Visually practice story problems with this math story pocket idea. Grouping the apples into baskets can be used to practice addition, subtraction, or multiplication.
Apple Math Activities
Apple Counting Grids for Preschoolers from lifeovercs.com: Print the apple cube and counting grid to practice counting apples this fall. It’s a cute activity to pair with those apple erasers, but red buttons or apple beads work great as well. Kids can practice counting to 20 using the grid!
Apple Seed Counting and Subtraction from stayathomeeducator.com: Use buttons or beans to serve as the apple seeds for this fun counting and subtraction activity.
Apple Subtraction Story Problems from reallifeathome.com: How cute are these apple subtraction cards? You can laminate the math task cards to use again and again with a classroom of kids or in your own home.
Apple Mini Eraser Math Pack from lifeovercs.com: Those apple mini erasers come in so handy in the fall! Print this pack of worksheets to get maximum use out of those cute little erasers. There’s an Apple I Spy game, pattern mats, counting mats, and more.
Apple Race Math Game from playdoughtoplato.com: Spin and graph with this apple race math game using pom-poms and a paperclip spinner. Which color will come up more frequently? Spin to find out!
Apple Fractions Math Printable from littlebinsforlittlehands.com: Use the printable and real apples to practice fractions. Fractions are easier to understand when using real-world examples, like cutting an apple into halves, quarters, or eighths. Then, you can use the paper apple to display the same concepts.
Apple Activities
Pick the Apples Math Game from theprintableprincess.com: Cover the white spots with apple erasers, and roll the dice to determine how many apples you should pick from the tree. Kids can take turns using their own sheets and manipulatives to see who can pick all their apples first.
Apple Addition Activity from alittlepinchofperfect.com: Let children practice addition with the apple tree cards side by side. They can then fill in the counting mat to add up the total.
Apple Bowling Math Game from coffeecupsandcrayons.com: Bowl the kids over with a fun math game that’s very hands-on! They’ll love bowling over pins with real (or fake) apples. Parents and teachers can use this activity for number recognition with toddlers and preschoolers or for simple addition with older children.
Fall Math Activities
Greater Than Less Than Apple Tree Math from giftofcuriosity.com: Identify how many apples are on each tree and then compare them to see if the number on the left is greater than or less than the number on the right.
Apple Math Counting and Fractions from teachbesideme.com: Make an apple fraction book and an apple spin and color activity to go along with the book Ten Red Apples. Kids can play the game with a single player or multiple players. Either way is fun!
Apple Math Activity Tray from andnextcomesl.com: Acrylic apples and dice come together in this apple math activity tray for a super fun and educational activity. It’s such a cool way to practice adding multiple numbers to get a sum.
Felt Apple Math from b-inspiredmama.com: Use felt to make apple manipulatives that you can use repeatedly. They’re soft, quiet, and easy for kids to work with as they go through their math problems.
There you have it—36 fun apple math activities for fall or anytime you use an apple-themed unit. Pin this list to come back to it later!
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