Apple Activities & Crafts Bundle | STEM, Math, Map Skills, Johnny Appleseed

Make Apple Week easy with this complete Apple Activities and Crafts Bundle for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade! This cross-curricular apple unit combines apple science activities, apple crafts, STEM, math, map activities, literacy, writing, and Johnny Appleseed activities so you can teach apples across multiple subjects without piecing together separate resources.

Students will explore the apple life cycle, investigate apples with their five senses, build an edible STEM model, create a 2D shape apple math craft, practice graphing, follow an interactive apple orchard map adventure, read and write about apples, and learn about Johnny Appleseed through a coordinated reader, slideshow, craft, writing book, and printable hat.

Use the activities individually or combine them to create a complete Apple Week unit for your K–2 classroom.

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

• Apple Life Cycle Interactive Flipbook

• Apple Life Cycle STEM Model

• Apple Five Senses STEM Exploration

• Shape Apple Math Craft

• 2D Shape Counting & Graphing Activities

• Apple Orchard Map Activities

• Johnny Appleseed Unit

• Johnny Appleseed Craft & Writing Book

• Johnny Appleseed Printable Hat

• Johnny Appleseed Emergent Reader

• Johnny Appleseed Slideshow

• Johnny Appleseed Lesson Plan & Teacher Script

• Differentiated Writing Activities

• Student Recording Pages

• Teacher Guides & Lesson Plans

• Standards Connections

• Bloom’s Leveled Questions

• Extension Activities

APPLE LIFE CYCLE ACTIVITIES

Students learn how an apple grows through the stages:

• Seed

• Sprout

• Tree

• Blossom

• Apple

The interactive apple life cycle flipbook combines simple informational reading with drawing, labeling, vocabulary, and student response activities. Students explore what seeds need to grow, label the parts of an apple tree, learn about blossoms, label the parts of an apple, and sequence the complete apple life cycle.

APPLE STEM ACTIVITIES

Students build an Apple Life Cycle STEM Model using snack materials to represent each stage of the apple life cycle.

Students build, sequence, observe, draw, record, and explain their model while practicing science and engineering skills.

The resource includes:

• Detailed teacher lesson plans

• Objectives and I Can statements

• Standards connections

• Science and engineering practices

• Bloom’s leveled questions

• Student recording mats

• Apple life cycle model pieces

• Supply bag toppers

• Extension activities

FIVE SENSES APPLE SCIENCE

Turn apple tasting into a meaningful science investigation!

Students explore an apple using:

• Sight

• Smell

• Touch

• Sound

• Taste

Students make predictions, investigate a real apple, record observations, use descriptive vocabulary, compare their predictions with their results, and draw conclusions about what they discovered.

APPLE MATH CRAFT + GRAPHING

Students create a Shape Apple Math Craft using 2D shapes and then use their finished craft for additional math activities.

Students practice:

• Identifying 2D shapes

• Counting

• Recording quantities

• Graphing

• Comparing data

• Determining which shape was used the most

• Math vocabulary

• Fine motor skills

The completed apple crafts also make a fun apple bulletin board or fall classroom display.

APPLE ORCHARD MAP ACTIVITIES

Bring social studies into your apple unit with an interactive Apple Orchard Map Adventure.

Students follow Blossom on a class trip through the apple orchard and use a map to locate different places and objects.

Students practice:

• Beginning map skills

• Locating places on a map

• Following directions

• Positional and directional language

• Understanding where locations are in relation to one another

• Reading for a purpose

• Beginning geography skills

This story-based map activity makes map skills meaningful by giving students a reason to navigate the orchard and help Blossom along the way.

JOHNNY APPLESEED ACTIVITIES + CRAFT

Teach the life and legend of Johnny Appleseed with a coordinated K–2 unit that combines history, literacy, writing, science, and hands-on learning.

Students learn about:

• Johnny Appleseed’s real name, John Chapman

• His birth and early life

• Apple orchards

• His travels

• His kindness toward animals and nature

• Historical facts and legends

• How his story became a legend

• Apples and apple trees

• The apple life cycle

The Johnny Appleseed portion includes:

• Johnny Appleseed craft

• Apple-shaped writing flipbook

• Differentiated writing options

• Fill-in-the-blank writing pages

• Word banks

• Printable Johnny Appleseed hat

• Sequencing activities

• Printable emergent reader

• Johnny Appleseed slideshow

• Complete lesson plan

• Slide-by-slide teacher script

SKILLS PRACTICED THROUGHOUT THE BUNDLE

• Apple life cycle

• Plant science

• Five senses

• Observation and prediction

• STEM modeling

• Sequencing

• 2D shapes

• Counting and graphing

• Map skills

• Positional words

• Beginning geography

• Informational reading

• Vocabulary

• Writing

• Labeling

• Historical figures

• Fact vs. legend

• Fine motor skills

• Following directions

• Scientific thinking

PERFECT FOR:

• Apple activities

• Apple crafts

• Apple Week

• Apple units

• Apple science activities

• Apple math activities

• Apple life cycle activities

• Apple STEM activities

• Map activities

• Johnny Appleseed activities

• Johnny Appleseed crafts

• Kindergarten activities

• First grade activities

• Second grade activities

• Fall activities

• September activities

• Fall science

• Fall math

• Social studies

• Literacy centers

• Science centers

• Whole-group lessons

• Small-group instruction

• Apple bulletin board displays

DIFFERENTIATED FOR K–2

The bundle includes a variety of response formats so you can choose what works best for your students. Students can draw, label, sequence, complete fill-in-the-blank responses, use word banks, graph data, or complete more independent writing activities.

This makes it easy to use the same apple unit across kindergarten, first grade, and second grade while adjusting the level of support students receive.

Bring science, math, literacy, writing, social studies, STEM, and crafts together with one complete set of apple activities for K–2. Whether you are planning Apple Week, a September apple theme, a fall science unit, or Johnny Appleseed lessons, this bundle gives you hands-on activities that can carry your instruction across the curriculum.