9 Craft Ideas to do With Apple Coloring Pages
Crunchy, juicy, sweet, and delicious! Apples are a yummy fruit that make the perfect healthy snack. Just like your coloring crayons, they come in a rainbow of different colors. They can be red or green. Yellow, too. And did you know, apples can even be pink or purple!
Below you will find a variety of fruity and fun apple coloring pages. These can be enjoyed by those young and old. We’ll also go over a handful of activities that are both functional and decorative, while cost-friendly and easy to make!
Coloring pages are free to use. They can be downloaded and printed as many times as you’d like. Simply click the image to generate a PDF file. This file can be saved to your device or printed straight from your browser. Use these coloring sheets to spend a moment bonding with your child, or teach your class all about apples. You can even make a special gift for a loved one. Any of the coloring pages below offer a fun, unique way to do something you love, with someone you love!
Grab your buckets; let’s head to the orchard! I’m going to walk you through 9 different ways that you can use these apple coloring pages to add a little brightness to your day. A lot of these ideas can tie in to education and learning about apples for young students, so this is a great read for teachers!
1. Apple-Themed Party Favors
Having a party that involves the sweetness of apples? Let’s decorate! Pick any of the coloring pages below – I recommend the ones with the cute faces. It’s best to print these onto cardstock for better stability.
Color in any way you wish. Cut out each picture and attach them to a string with either staples or glue to create a banner. You can also simply hang some on the walls around your party to really tie together the theme. Adding them to the front of your party favor boxes is sure to make the receiver smile!
2. Educational Apple Facts and Coloring
Who remembers learning all about apples in Kindergarten? My daughter just covered this topic in her class not too long ago and she enjoyed it so much! By adding coloring into your educational plan, you’re not only making it fun, you’re encouraging kids to remember what they’ve learned.
Assign a fact to each student along with an apple coloring page. Let them be creative, then write their facts on colored paper to glue onto their pages. Allow your students to share their facts with the whole class. Put their apples on display to give your classroom a bit of sweetness!
3. Apple Storytelling and Coloring Session
Continuing with the apple-themed education – choose a fun book portraying apples to read to your students. Once you’ve finished the story, let each of them pick an apple coloring page to design. Have them write their favorite part of the story on their pictures. This is a great way to make sure everyone is attentive and participating as an active listener as you read!
4.Apple Recipe Cards
Almost everyone has a beloved apple pie recipe! Share yours with loved ones in a cute, memorable way.
Pick an apple coloring page from the options above. I personally like the shiny apple on a picnic blanket for this project. Scale the image down in size and print it out. Color it in. Using either a recipe card or index card, glue your apple to one of the upper corners. Now you can write your recipe and pass it along for others to enjoy.
5. Apple Orchard Fundraisers
Need to raise some extra funds for your school or to donate to a beloved community group? Link up with a local apple orchard! Discuss with them how you can sell tickets to an apple-picking walk through their orchard as a fundraiser. In order to pick apples successfully, you must have something to carry them in! Include a bag with each ticket purchase. You can make these bags by printing and coloring any of our apple coloring pages. Cut and glue them onto large grocery-like paper bags. Add the fundraiser name to the bags for an extra touch if you wish.
6. Apple Harvest Journals
Journals allow students to express themselves, as does coloring. Let your class enjoy this activity throughout your apple learning journey.
Print out a different apple coloring sheet for each day of your apple learning week. Be sure to print it horizontal and on half of the page. Let students use the blank half of the pages to fill in like a journal. You can fold the pages and place staples in the fold to keep them together.
7. Apple Coloring Competition
Everybody loves a friendly competition! You can even use a basket of different varieties of apples as the prize!
Let kids (or even adults!) pick out any of the apple coloring pages provided. Give them a deadline and let the competition begin! Make this activity interesting by allowing crayons, markers, paint, glitter, stickers, etc. I suggest printing the coloring pages on cardstock to ensure they’re sturdy enough to withstand all kinds of media.
8. Apple-Themed Classroom Activities
There are SO many different classroom activities using apples that you can choose from! For this one, we will be using cut apples to make stamps. Be sure to have enough apples so every student can have one to themselves – half to craft, half to eat!
Cut each apple in half. Teachers/helpers – please do this for the students.
Dip the inside portion of the apple into paint and stamp it onto paper.
Super simple, yet kids love this one!
To tie in our coloring pages, have students color the apple in the picture the same color as the apple they are using. Make your apple stamps on the backside of the coloring page.
9. Apple Bookmarks
This activity is a sweet addition to your apple-themed education in class! But, feel free to do it at home, too.
Cut skinny strips of construction paper or cardstock. Approximately 2-3 inches wide by 4-6 inches long.
Allow children to pick their favorite apple coloring page(s). When printing, scale them down to at least 50% of the original size so they fit onto your bookmark.
Color your apple and cut it out. Glue onto the cardstock. Add things such as names, apple facts, glitter, stickers, gems, etc to match your bookmark to your personality!
Be sure to allow bookmark to dry fully before placing it between pages.
