Apple Headband Craft for Kids [Free PDF Template]
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Fall is a wonderful season to bring fun art activities into the classroom or home, and this apple headband craft is a great choice for 4-7 year olds. Children will create a smiling apple they can proudly wear. This hands-on fall craft comes together in about 20-30 minutes and is a good way to strengthen fine motor skills and creativity.
After making this apple headband, be sure to look through our other apple activities to fill the season with fun projects that will help kiddos enjoy autumn and build new skills.
Good To Know
- Themes: Apples, Back to School, Fall, Healthy Foods
- Activity: Make a wearable apple headband with a stem, leaf, and cheerful face Template: Includes a printable apple headband template with adjustable bands
- Ages: Preschool through second grade
- Time: 20–30 minutes
- Skills: Cutting, gluing, following directions, and fine motor practice
Easy Apple Project for Fall Harvest Lessons
Kids will love making a happy apple they can wear around the classroom or home. Bright red, green, or yellow apples will add extra fun to any fall celebration and encourage kids to use their imaginations.
This apple headband craft will have children cutting and assembling a wearable creation that will work on fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, scissor skills, and creative thinking. The finished projects will also make fun photo opportunities during seasonal lessons or classroom celebrations.
Our printable template helps make this project easy to put together. You only need a few supplies, so grab the construction paper, scissors, and glue to create this adorable apple craft for kids. Before long, children will be smiling right along with their happy apple they’re wearing.
Supplies
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Markers
- Tape
- Apple Headband Template (click the “click here to get your freebies” image at the end of the post)
Directions
Start by printing the template, then gather the materials for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring this apple to life!
Look for the eye pieces and glue them near the top center of the apple, just below the eyebrows.
Grab the mouth piece and glue it below the eyes. Watching the apple’s smile come to life is always an exciting part of the craft.
Glue one cheek on each side of the mouth, then let your child step back and admire how friendly their apple is starting to look.
Take the stem piece and glue it behind the top center of the apple. Talk about how every apple grows from a stem that connects it to the tree.
Glue the leaf behind the top of the apple beside the stem.
Finish the craft by attaching the headband extenders to each side of the headband base. Wrap it around your child’s head to find the right fit, then glue or tape the ends together.
Kids will love wearing their finished apple headband while building confidence through cutting, gluing, and creative play.
Keep the learning going with the fall themed crafts, preschool activities, and printable resources linked below for even more hands on fun.
Fall Books for Children
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves: The mischievous old lady swallowed a handful of leaves! Her tummy started to rumble. So she swallowed some more items. Then, even more. But as her stomach grew full, the leaves began to poke out through her mouth… when suddenly – poofffff! – it turned into a scarecrow!
Pete The Cat Falling For Autumn: Pete is not a fan of fall. But he decides to do some detective work and finds out that there are many things about this season he loves, like corn mazes, hayrides, wearing scarves, and apple picking! This story helps kids learn that even though they might not love every season of the year, there are still good parts to each one.
We’re Going On A Leaf Hunt: The seasons are changing, the days are getting shorter, and children everywhere are starting to make plans for their favorite outdoor adventures – and what could be more fun than a Leaf Hunt?!
Fall Harvest Crafts
Pumpkin Pie Craft – Serve up a slice of fall fun with this paper pumpkin pie! Kids will love layering the pie crust, pumpkin filling, smiling face, and fluffy whipped cream to create a sweet pretend dessert. It’s a tasty way to celebrate autumn while practicing essential skills.
Fall Hedgehog Craft – Fall fun and this adorable hedgehog go together! Kids will create a cute hedgehog peeking over a colorful pile of autumn leaves by cutting and arranging the pieces. It’ll help strengthen fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, creativity, and celebrate the beauty of the season.
Apple Basket Craft – Fill your day with fall fun by making this basket filled with cute apples! Kids will make a basket overflowing with colorful apples to strengthen fine motor skills, scissor skills, hand-eye coordination, and focus. It’s a wonderful activity for apple themes, harvest lessons, or cozy afternoons at home.
Indian Corn Craft – Celebrate the colors of autumn with this fun Indian corn activity! Kids will dot, cut, and assemble ears of corn and work on fine motor skills, scissor skills, hand-eye coordination, and creativity at the same time. This engaging project fits well into fall harvest units, Thanksgiving activities, classroom art time, or relaxing afternoons of seasonal crafting at home.
Autumn Learning Printables
These pumpkin dot to dot printables have kids connect numbered dots to reveal festive pumpkin pictures that they can color in once they’re done.
As children go dot to dot, they’ll practice number recognition, counting, pencil control, concentration, and fine motor skills. They’re a fun addition to pumpkin units, fall classroom centers, quiet time, or afternoons at home when you need a fun, no-prep activity.
Celebrating fall and building early writing skills are easy with these acorn tracing worksheets. Kids will trace lines, shapes, and acorns to practice drawing pre-writing strokes, complete tracing activities, and color the finished pictures for extra fun.
They’ll work on pencil control, fine motor skills, and hand-eye coordination. Parents and teachers will love using these worksheets during autumn preschool units, literacy centers, morning work, quiet time, or homeschool lessons to give students handwriting practice in a fun way.
These fall activity sheets are packed with seasonal fun for your kiddos! They’ll complete mazes, matching games, tracing activities, counting exercises, patterns, coloring pages, and more with festive autumn pictures.
Every page helps build fine motor skills, pencil control, number recognition, visual discrimination, problem solving, and early learning skills. These worksheets are a wonderful choice for fall classroom centers, homeschool lessons, morning work, or quiet learning time.
Sneak in some learning with these apple color by numbers! Kids will match each number to the correct color to reveal different scenes of a silly worm with an apple.
Coloring by numbers helps practice number recognition, color identification, and attention to detail. Once the pages are finished, they can proudly display their colorful creations. Use these worksheets for engaging seasonal learning this fall.
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Free Apple Headband Template
Apple Headband Craft
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Materials
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Tape
- Markers
- Apple Headband Template
Instructions
- Print the template and gather the materials for this fun activity.
- Begin by gluing the eye pieces below the eyebrows.
- Color the mouth piece in and glue it below the eyes.
- Glue one cheek on each side of the mouth.
- Glue the stem behind the top center of the apple.
- Glue the leaf behind the top of the apple beside the stem.
- Attach one extender to each side of the headband base with tape.
- Wrap the headband around the child’s head, adjust the fit, and secure the ends together.
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