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Torn Paper Apple Craft for Kids

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Apple Week is one of my favorite September themes! This simple torn paper apple craft is perfect for the beginning of the school year! Students are able to strengthen their fine motor skills, as they tear and glue each torn piece of paper. Preschool, kindergarten, and even first grade students will enjoy this fall craft. Be sure to pair it with your favorite apple books and apple investigation activities!

Don’t forget to grab your FREE apple sentences at the bottom of this post!

Learn all about apples during apple week! Pair this apple paper craft with your favorite apple books or apple activities during the month of September. This simple apple craft for kids is perfect for the beginning of the school year. Work on fine motor skills, as your preschool and kindergarten students tear and glue pieces of paper. This fall craft makes a perfect apple bulletin board. You can complete this apple craft after your apple investigation!

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Torn Paper Apple Craft Supplies

  • Black construction paper
  • Red construction paper
  • Green construction paper
  • Yellow construction paper
  • Brown construction paper
  • Glue stick

Torn Paper Apple Craft Directions

For this torn paper apple craft, I start by tracing an apple shape onto a piece of 9×12 black construction paper for each student.

Learn all about apples during apple week! Pair this apple paper craft with your favorite apple books or apple activities during the month of September. This simple apple craft for kids is perfect for the beginning of the school year. Work on fine motor skills, as your preschool and kindergarten students tear and glue pieces of paper. This fall craft makes a perfect apple bulletin board. You can complete this apple craft after your apple investigation!

First, I give the students a small square of green and brown paper for the leaf and stem. I show the students how to carefully tear the paper into smaller pieces.

Learn all about apples during apple week! Pair this apple paper craft with your favorite apple books or apple activities during the month of September. This simple apple craft for kids is perfect for the beginning of the school year. Work on fine motor skills, as your preschool and kindergarten students tear and glue pieces of paper. This fall craft makes a perfect apple bulletin board. You can complete this apple craft after your apple investigation!

Based on their apple color preference, I give each student a large square of red, yellow or green construction paper.

Again, I model how to tear the paper into small pieces. This is great fine motor practice!

Learn all about apples during apple week! Pair this apple paper craft with your favorite apple books or apple activities during the month of September. This simple apple craft for kids is perfect for the beginning of the school year. Work on fine motor skills, as your preschool and kindergarten students tear and glue pieces of paper. This fall craft makes a perfect apple bulletin board. You can complete this apple craft after your apple investigation!

Then, I model how to glue the pieces inside the apple using a glue stick. I explain the word “overlap” and that there shouldn’t be any black showing.

Learn all about apples during apple week! Pair this apple paper craft with your favorite apple books or apple activities during the month of September. This simple apple craft for kids is perfect for the beginning of the school year. Work on fine motor skills, as your preschool and kindergarten students tear and glue pieces of paper. This fall craft makes a perfect apple bulletin board. You can complete this apple craft after your apple investigation!

Once the inside of the apple is completely covered, we are ready to add a simple sentence to the top of the paper.

Torn Paper Apple Craft Sentences

If you’ve been around for awhile, then you know I am all about crafts with a purpose. This torn paper apple craft allows students to practice not only fine motor skills, but also sentence structure and high frequency words!

The final step involves adding a sentence to the top, where they highlight their favorite apple flavor. These FREE sentences can be found at the bottom of this post.

First, they trace the words in the sentence.

Learn all about apples during apple week! Pair this apple paper craft with your favorite apple books or apple activities during the month of September. This simple apple craft for kids is perfect for the beginning of the school year. Work on fine motor skills, as your preschool and kindergarten students tear and glue pieces of paper. This fall craft makes a perfect apple bulletin board. You can complete this apple craft after your apple investigation!

Then, they cut it apart and practice mixing and fixing the sentence before gluing it down. As we are creating our sentences, we discuss the importance of a capital letter at the beginning, punctuation at the end and spaces between words.

Learn all about apples during apple week! Pair this apple paper craft with your favorite apple books or apple activities during the month of September. This simple apple craft for kids is perfect for the beginning of the school year. Work on fine motor skills, as your preschool and kindergarten students tear and glue pieces of paper. This fall craft makes a perfect apple bulletin board. You can complete this apple craft after your apple investigation!

Last but not least, have students write their name on the front or back of their paper using a white crayon.

More Apple Craft Ideas

Discover 20 apple investigation activities for kids HERE!

If you are looking for another cute apple craft with a purpose be sure to check out this FREE paper plate apple craft for labeling the parts of an apple!

September is the perfect time for apple crafts, apple books and apple activities! This paper plate apple craft for preschool, kindergarten and first grade comes with a free apple labeling printable. Learn all about apples, and then let your students complete this adorable apple paper plate craft. This fall craft allows students to work on fine motor skills, as well as labeling. You can complete this apple activity during your apple investigation week. Grab your free apple label printable now!

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Learn all about apples during apple week! Pair this apple paper craft with your favorite apple books or apple activities during the month of September. This simple apple craft for kids is perfect for the beginning of the school year. Work on fine motor skills, as your preschool and kindergarten students tear and glue pieces of paper. This fall craft makes a perfect apple bulletin board. You can complete this apple craft after your apple investigation!

Learn all about apples during apple week! Pair this apple paper craft with your favorite apple books or apple activities during the month of September. This simple apple craft for kids is perfect for the beginning of the school year. Work on fine motor skills, as your preschool and kindergarten students tear and glue pieces of paper. This fall craft makes a perfect apple bulletin board. You can complete this apple craft after your apple investigation!

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