Apple Alphabet Activity: Apple Tree Letter Matching
This fun apple alphabet activity works on literacy skills and fine motor skills with a simple letter matching activity and the use of stickers. It’s a great learning activity for an apple themed preschool week!
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The theme for this week is apples and I am sharing a literacy activity. Many preschoolers enjoy using stickers and Evan is definitely one of them. With this thought in mind, I developed this idea for practicing letter identification and letter sounds.
Head over to my Alphabet Activities page for even more fun, hands-on letter learning ideas!
Objective: To work on letter identification and talk about letter sounds while developing fine motor skills.
Materials Needed:
Piece of paper. I have a roll of craft paper and cut some of that off. I would suggest using something larger than a typical sheet of paper, but that will work just fine if you reduce the amount of letters you put on the tree.
Crayons
Red dot stickers (color coding stickers). These can be found in the office supply section of most stores. Usually they come in a pack with red, blue and yellow. I got mine at Meijer for $2.50.
Lesson Prep:
1. Draw a tree on the paper.
2. Write letters all over the tree with black crayon or marker. My paper was large enough to draw a big tree and have enough room for all the letters of the alphabet. If your tree is smaller, you can do half the letters or any amount you can fit.
3. Write the matching letters on the red dot stickers.
Activity:
I started by asking Evan if he could find the A on the tree. Once he found it, I said the letter sound and a word that starts with that letter.Then I asked him to peel off the “A” sticker and place it over top of the letter “A” on the tree. We repeated this for every letter in the alphabet.
When he didn’t know which letter it was, I would have him look at the letter on the sticker and then look for the match on the tree. If that is still too difficult for your child, you can help them find the letter on the tree.
This can easily be modified for your child’s developmental level. You can use fewer letters, a specific set of letters or you could even match uppercase letters with lowercase letters.
Evan enjoyed this so much that he has been asking me to do it again. We have been reading apple books and he learned about Golden Delicious apples. Now he must make an apple tree and use the yellow dot stickers. You could use green dot stickers for green apples too. I hope this is a great addition to your preschool lesson plans!
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This apple activities mega bundle includes 10 printable activities that help children learn the alphabet, letter sounds, sight words and word families (rhyming words), numbers and number sense! They are all hands-on and interactive.
This bundle includes:
- Apple Tree Beginning Sounds Matching
- Apple Tree Word Family Matching
- Apple Tree Sight Word Building Activity
- Apple Letter Sounds Puzzles
- Apple Tree Number Matching (numbers 1-20)
- Apple Number Sense Puzzles (numbers 1-20)
- Apple Tree Counting Mats (numbers 1-20)
- Apple Counting Clip Cards (numbers 1-10)
- Apple Number Sense Clip Cards (numbers 1-10)
- Apple Addition Mats (adding numbers to equal 2-12)
That’s 150 pages of printable apple activities that you can do with your students or kids this fall!
The best part is that the pack is differentiated and able to meet the needs of students at a variety of ability levels.
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Plan your learning week with Preschool Apple Theme Activities from the Playful Preschool Education Team:
SOCIAL STUDIES
From Orchard to Table. Watch and Make at The Educators’ Spin On It
SCIENCE
Examining Apple Parts, How Does It Grow, Sink/Float at Little Bins For Little Hands
MUSIC & MOVEMENT
Apple Hop at Learning 2 Walk
MATH
Counting Apples with Preschoolers: Real-Life Math at Life Over C’s
Apple Math Fun in Preschool – Tasting and Graphing Apples at Fun-A-Day
WRITING
Scented Playdough Pre-Writing Activity at Preschool Toolbox
LITERACY
Alphabet Activity: Apple Tree Letter Matching at Mom Inspired Life
Alphabet Learning: Apple Stamping at Growing Book by Book
Apple-Bet Match : Matching Lowercase with Upper Case Letters at Tiny Tots Adventures
SENSORY
Applesauce Dough for Sensory Play at Still Playing School
COOKING
How to Make Homemade Apple Pie – Cooking with Preschoolers at Powerful Mothering
SCIENCE
Apple Oxidation Experiment at Raising Lifelong Learners