Looking for hands-on ways to keep your little ones learning and busy? These fruit crafts for kindergarten are colorful, simple to prep, and full of kid-approved charm. Whether you teach at home or in a classroom, this list has ideas that are just the right mix of fun and skill-building.
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Fruit Crafts For Kindergarten
These fun and easy fruit crafts are perfect for kindergarten kids to explore creativity while learning about healthy foods. With simple materials and step-by-step instructions, children can make adorable fruit-themed projects like apples, pineapples, and strawberries.
These crafts are great for classroom activities, summer fun, or teaching nutrition in a hands-on way!
Strawberry Handprint
Kids use their handprints as the leafy green tops for these adorable paper strawberries. With a free template for the strawberry shape, they can easily cut out the bright red berry and glue their handprint cut-out on as the leaves.They will love that their hand becomes part of the art, making each strawberry unique and special.
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Paper Plate Strawberry
A simple paper plate becomes a giant strawberry in this cute summer art. Kids paint the plate red and add details like a green paper stem and little "seeds. " Then, they can have fun pretending to take a big bite of their pretend fruit.It's an excellent warm-weather activity that blends creativity with a bit of imaginative play, and little ones will enjoy proudly showing off their jumbo strawberry creation.
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Paper Plate Yarn Weaving Apple
Kids weave colorful yarn through a paper plate, creating the round shape of an apple as they go. This activity gives little ones a fun way to practice fine motor skills—threading the yarn in and out of pre-punched holes—while making a neat pattern that looks like the inside of an apple.Combining art and simple weaving keeps children engaged, and they'll feel proud of the textured, homemade apple they create.Related: Apple Picking Craft
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Handprint Pineapple
Art time gets a tropical twist with a bright yellow pineapple that kids top off with a cut-out of their handprint for the spiky green leaves. This project uses a free printable template for the pineapple shape, so even young children can easily cut and glue the pieces together.Kids have a blast seeing their hands become part of a tropical fruit and love the sunny, summer vibe of their finished pineapple art.
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Paper Plate Watermelon
Half a paper plate turns into a juicy watermelon slice with just some paint and a bit of creativity. Preschoolers paint the center of the plate red (or pink) and the edge green, then add black dots or paper pieces as seeds to make it look just like the real fruit.It's an easy, low-mess project perfect for summer, and kids enjoy the bright colors and recognizable yummy theme as they create their watermelon slice.Also try: Watermelon Craft
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Fruit Basket
Kids fill a paper basket with colorful paper fruits in this healthy-eating-themed project. Using a free template, they cut out various fruit shapes like apples, bananas, and grapes and glued them into a basket they decorated.It is a fun art project that excites children about fruits; they'll love naming each fruit as they create and pretending to pick produce from their basket.
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Printable Banana
Little ones put together a bright yellow banana using a simple printable template, making this activity easy and fun. They cut out the banana pieces (with help if needed) and glued them together, ending with a big, cheerful paper banana.Kids enjoy this activity because it feels silly and playful—bananas are funny fruits, after all—and they get to talk about healthy snacks or even pretend to make a banana phone once they finish.
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Egg Carton Apple
Even old egg cartons can become a set of cute apples with a bit of paint and creativity. In this fun recycling art, children cut out individual egg carton cups, paint them red, and add small paper leaves and stems to each one to make mini apples.Kids will have fun repurposing materials they'd normally toss out, turning them into tiny apples just right for pretend play, like apple picking or kitchen fun, or as a thoughtful fall gift for a teacher.Related: Apple Tree Name Craft
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Paper Pineapple
For a summery art project, kids trace and cut out their handprint to serve as the spiky green top of a cheerful paper pineapple. It's a quick, low-mess activity that even the little ones can help with, and it doubles as a keepsake since it captures the size of their hand as part of the artwork.They will be delighted to see their hand shape turn into part of a tropical fruit and enjoy this activity's personal touch and sunny colors.
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Paper Bag Apple
In this project, a plain paper lunch bag transforms into a playful apple that doubles as a puppet for pretend play. Kids decorate the bag with an apple design—using the free template for shapes like a stem, leaf, and maybe a cute face—then stuff it lightly to give it a round apple shape.Once finished, it's not just a decoration: children can put their hand inside the bag and use their homemade apple as a puppet, making this project extra entertaining and interactive.
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Watermelon Card
Kids can create a bright watermelon slice out of paper that doubles as a greeting card to share. They glue together pieces of red, green, and white paper (or use the provided template) to form a watermelon, then add a few black "seeds" and can open it up to write a fun message like "You're one in a melon!" inside.Children enjoy decorating this colorful fruit card and especially love that they can give it to someone special as a sweet summertime note.
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Paper Plate Kiwi Fruit
A paper plate and some paint are all kids need to make a big, bright kiwi slice complete with all the tiny seeds. Children paint the plate a vibrant green with a white center, then dot around the middle with black paint (using a brush tip or finger) to resemble the kiwi's seeds, finishing it off by coloring the outer rim brown like the skin.This easy project introduces a less-common fruit in a fun way, and kids enjoy recreating the kiwi's unique look—it's a fresh twist on the usual fruit art and perfect for a nutrition or summer theme.
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Apple Core
Kids can make a cute apple that's been eaten down to the core using just a paper plate and some construction paper. With a free template to guide them, they cut a paper plate or paper into the hourglass "core" shape and add the red top and bottom of the apple, complete with a stem, leaf, and a few little seeds drawn on the white center.It's an adorable twist on an apple activity that gets children talking about the parts of a fruit, and they'll enjoy practicing their cutting and gluing skills as they create their half-eaten apple art.
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Bubble Wrap Painting Apples
Using bubble wrap as a stamp, kids paint speckled red apples that look good enough to pick. They brush red paint onto a piece of bubble wrap and press it onto paper apple cutouts (or drawings), which leaves behind a wonderful pattern of round "apple" spots with lots of texture.This activity is quick to set up and fun — little ones love the sensory feel of the bubble wrap and the surprise of lifting it to see a dotty apple design, making it a perfect fall or back-to-school art project.Also try: Yarn Apple Craft
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Bubble Wrap Grapes
In this project, a sheet of bubble wrap becomes a stamp for creating a perfect bunch of grapes. Kids dip the bumpy bubble wrap in purple paint and press it onto paper, instantly making a cluster of grape shapes. They love how a straightforward press can create so many grape "berries."It's a hands-on painting method that feels like a cool experiment. The result is a vibrant bunch of grapes that looks like it came straight from the vine.
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Fingerprint Strawberries
Finger painting gets a fruity twist when kids use their fingerprints to make adorable strawberries. With a dab of red paint, each fingerprint turns into a tiny strawberry on the page, and adding a little green leaf or yellow seed detail brings these berry spots to life.Kids have a blast getting a bit messy with finger paints, and they're delighted to see their fingerprints transform into a whole patch of their favorite fruit in this simple, sweet project.
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Lacing Pineapple
Kids practice their threading skills by lacing yarn back and forth through a pineapple-shaped card, making the fruit's cool crisscross pattern appear. This fun summer art comes with a printable pineapple template full of holes to guide the yarn, so even little hands can join in and strengthen their fine motor skills as they "sew" the pineapple.Children enjoy the satisfying process of pulling the yarn through each hole and are proud of the colorful, textured pineapple design they create all on their own.
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Melted Beads Apples Suncatchers
In this activity, kids arrange colorful plastic beads in the shape of an apple and then watch as an adult helps melt them into a solid sun-catching ornament. The process feels like part science experiment, part art project, as the loose beads fuse in the oven to form a beautiful translucent apple that catches the light when hung in a window.Kids love picking out their favorite colors for the apple, and they're amazed to see their design transform into a shiny suncatcher they can proudly display for fall.Related: Apple Popsicle Stick Craft
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Popsicle Stick Apple
In this fun fall art, a handful of popsicle sticks turns into a bright red apple. Kids glue the sticks side by side and paint them red (or green for a different kind of apple), then add a construction paper leaf and stem to the top.It's an easy project with a big payoff: children enjoy working with the sturdy sticks and paint, and the finished apple makes a great keepsake from an orchard visit or a cute homemade gift for a teacher.Also try: Tissue Paper Apple Craft
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Paper Apple
Budding artists create a plump paper apple by looping and gluing strips of paper together with the help of a simple template. This clever technique uses ring-shaped loops to give the apple a 3D look, and it's surprisingly easy for kids to do by just forming paper circles and sticking them in place.They'll enjoy rolling the paper into loops, assembling the round apple shape, and ending up with a colorful decoration that can stand or hang as a festive fall ornament.Related: Apple Name Craft
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Fruit Slice Paper Plate Fans
Kids paint paper plates to look like colorful fruit slices—think watermelon, orange, lemon, or lime—and then attach a stick handle to make each into a fan. These fruity fans are quick to create and work, meaning little ones can cool off with their handmade fan on a hot day.Children choose their favorite fruit designs and show off the bright, summery colors as they wave their fans around during play or picnic time.
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Strawberry Blossom
In a creative twist, this project uses egg-shaped objects (like wooden or plastic eggs) painted red to make plump strawberries, complete with paper leaves and blossoms. Kids paint the "berries" and add green paper tops and little white flower cutouts on curly paper vines, assembling a mini strawberry plant that looks straight from the garden.They'll love the mix of painting and creativity as they watch plain egg shapes transform into a beautiful strawberry display, and the finished piece makes for an adorable bit of décor they can be proud of.
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Paper Plate Pineapple
Kids transform a plain paper plate into a vibrant pineapple using a little paint and some art additions. They cover the plate in yellow (or use a yellow plate), glue on cut-out shapes or pieces of yellow paper to mimic the pineapple's bumpy texture, and add a prominent tuft of green paper leaves at the top.This summery project is bright, tactile, and simple to make, and children enjoy working with the different materials, like paper pieces, to turn an ordinary plate into a giant tropical fruit they can proudly display.
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