Apple-icious Apple Activities

1-2-3 Come Exercise Your Brain, and Play Some Apple Games With Me!

Yesterday I shared "Apples on a Roll" to help reinforce numbers and math skills. Today I have 2 more freebies: an apple maze and an apple word find. I designed several mazes according to skill level, from super simple for PK kiddo's, to difficult for older students, or something to challenge "early finishers" with.

apple mazes, apple activities, apple lessons, apple word find, labeled apple, parts of an apple activities, labeling an apple, label an apple printable,apple maze, I enjoy designing mazes and word finds, within a themed object, like the apple. These are quick and easy table top activities, or something to plug in, for those students who manage to get everything done in a short amount of time, and are forever asking: "What can I do now?" Mazes are great practice for spatial awareness, and higher-level thinking with logic, plus a wonderful fine motor skill, as children navigate from beginning to end.

Click on the link to view/download the Apple Mazes.

For more "a-maze-ing" fun, click on the link to view a plethora of online mazes; suitable for a computer-center activity.

My students also enjoyed word finds. I made them for every unit, as they are a quick and easy way to reinforce letter recognition and spelling. Kids love them and they are an excellent way to review the vocabulary that you want to build for that particular theme.

apple mazes, apple activities, apple lessons, apple word find, labeled apple, parts of an apple activities, labeling an apple, label an apple printable,apple maze, For our apple unit, we started by labeling the parts of an apple; these provided our new vocabulary words, which went up on our word wall. Searching for them in a word find was a fun way to reinforce them. Click on the link to view/download the Apple Labeling "craftivity".

There are zillions of word finds available online, as well as a nice selection of word find generators. I used to create my own word finds, by typing in all of the words first, and then filling them in with letters before and after. This was pretty time consuming, so I switched to using a generator to make an "instant" word find. Simply type in a list of words, and then click submit.

apple mazes, apple activities, apple lessons, apple word find, labeled apple, parts of an apple activities, labeling an apple, label an apple printable,apple maze, A downfall of most of the automatic programs, is that they create only using CAPITAL letters. This is not how teachers want students to search for a word, that they have learned to spell appropriately. This also proves near impossible for little ones who are just learning how to match upper to lowercase letters. A-Z Teacher's Stuff is my favorite program. It offers both upper and lowercase options, shapes, fonts and spatial find options. In my apple word find, I have included Johnny Appleseed. I have not found a program that allows me to do both upper and lowercase in the same word find, so I use the result as a "teachable moment" by asking students: "What's wrong with johnny appleseed's name?" Looking for: "It should be capitalized." Click on the link to view/download the Apple Word Find.

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