Fun Apple Life Cycle Activities for Kids with Free Printable

The arrival of the fall season also brings with it apple season! This is the perfect time to teach your children all about apples. There are some great activities and printables you can use to teach the apple life cycle in your homeschool.

Learning About the Apple Life Cycle

There are many different ways that you can teach your kids about the apple life cycle with printable resources, hands-on learning, field trips and science experiments. 

Learning about apples is such a fun activity to include in your homeschool. Kids love learning with food, and it is a great way to also discuss healthy choices for snacks and try different varieties of apples at the same time.

Life Cycle of an Apple Tree

Learning about the stages of the apple life cycle will teach your kids how an apple tree grows to produce those juicy apples that we all love. These are the 5 different stages of growth in the life cycle of an apple tree.

1. Seeds – The seed from an apple is planted into the ground. With plenty of water and sunlight it will begin to form its roots. 
2. Sapling – The roots begin to push forth a very small sprout which will turn into a small sapling. After man years it will become an apple tree.
3. Budding -After the apple tree is fully formed into an adult tree. Small buds will begin to emerge. 
4. Blossom Stage – The buds on the tree will begin producing apple flowers. These apple blossoms are lovely, and fragrant flowers are a very important part of the apple life cycle because they are the beginning of fruit.
5. Fruiting Stage – Apples begin to grow where the blossoms were. It can take 160-180 days for those blossoms to turn into apples that are ready to be picked. 

Fun Apple Activities

• Visit a local apple orchard to go apple picking. Many apple orchards will have educational talks and even host learning field trips. If there isn’t an apple orchard near you, then go on virtual field trip instead.
• Explore an apple theme in your homeschool. Take a week to do a full unit on apples. You can learn about Johnny Appleseed and even try different science experiments with apples.
• Apple seed counting. Cut open an apple for a snack. Have your children pull out the apple seeds from the apple core. Sort them and count how many seeds are in the apple. This is such a fun way to practice counting.
• Make an apple pie or apple cobbler. This is such a fun activity with younger students that love to bake and help in the kitchen.
• Create a snack. Use this afternoon apple ring recipe and experiment with different toppings. Your children could even pretend to be food critics and write reviews of their creations. Don’t forget to rank them with 1-5 stars!
• Learn about apple varieties. A great way to do this is at a grocery store or farmers market. While you are selecting apples you can discuss some of the different colored apples and varieties such as: Granny Smith, Golden Delicious, Fuji, Gala, etc…
• Learn a new song. Take a break from the desks to get up and wiggle while you sing-a-long with this apple tree tune.
• Explore even more apple life cycle activities with apple printables such as as our free apple life cycle printable pack at the bottom of this post. 

Books About the Apple Life Cycle

Reading apple books is another way to immerse your children in the apple theme. Here are some great books for your young readers to learn more about apples and the apple life cycle. There are even picture books for your smallest learners.

Hello World! How Do Apples Grow? – This is an adorable board book perfect for teaching toddlers how apples grow.

An Apple’s Life (Watch it Grow) – A very colorful book which can be used as a visual aid so that kids can actually see how an apple grows.

Apples: New and Updated by Gail Gibbons – This book is great for young readers to learn all about apples.

The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree – Another lovely book by Gail Gibbons that shows what an apple tree goes through each season of the year. 

Ten Apples Up On Top! – Combine counting and apples with this Dr. Suess story. It’s sure to add giggles to the lessons – especially if your little learners try to balance an apple on their heads too!

Apple Creatures (Make Your Own) – Make silly snacks with apples and let your imagination go to create a snack beyond the pictures.

Apple Life Cycle Printable Pack

Our free printable pack will help your children with their fine motor skills as they work through the printable activity sheets. There are 6 pages of learning fun to explore the apple life cycle.

Here is What’s Included:

• Apple life cycle tracing – Trace the words to learn how to write and spell: seeds, sprout, tree, blossoms and apple.
• Parts of an apple color by number – Color the different parts of an apple with this fun color by number printable activity.
• Apple life cycle sequencing sheet – Cut and paste the 5 stages of the apple life cycle in numerical order. This page is in black and white so that it can be colored in when your student is finished.
• Cut and paste picture sequencing – Glue the pictures to the apple life cycle page in their correct order, to create a cute foldable that can stand up.
• Apple life cycle poster – Full color poster showing the cycle from seed to a full-grown apple tree. Print and hang it up, or give to your children to use as they are going through the different activities.

Download Your Apple Life Cycle Printable Pack Here