A is for Apple Craft: Young kids will love creating this simple apple craft while working on their fine motor skills and exploring the letter a.
This is a great activity to help improve fine motor skills. If your child is not quite ready for working on their scissor skills there are many different ways that you could do this craft. Some alternatives are: tearing and gluing construction paper, using paintbrushes, or even do-a-dot markers.
Items Needed for a Lower Case A Craft:
- Construction Paper
- Glue
- Scissors
- Sharpie
Suggested Book: Apple Pie ABC by. Alison Murray
How to Create your A is for Apple:
1. Draw an outline of a lower case a.
2. Cut it out. Take care when cutting the inside circle. It is easiest to start in the middle. An adult may need to help.
3. Draw out your apple leaves. Cut them out and glue them down.
4. Cut out a rectangle for your stem. Measure it for your apple, cut, and glue.
5. Draw out your seeds on a black piece of construction paper. Cut them out and lay them out in a circle in the center of your a.
6. Glue everything down to a piece of construction paper as your backing and hang up to enjoy!
A is for Apple Finger Play and Song:
A Little Red Apple:
Way up high in the apple tree (arms stretched up high)
Two little apples smiled at me (point to cheeks)
I shook that tree as hard as I could (pretend to shake tree)
Down came the apples (make downward motion with arms)
Mmm, they were good! (rub stomach)
Apples:
Apples, apples, one, two, three,
Apples for you,
Apples for me.
Apples big,
Apples small,
Apple trees tiny,
Apple trees tall.
Apples sour,
Apples sweet,
Apples, apples, are nice to eat.