Growing Apple Seeds + Apple Activities for Toddlers

Including apple activities for toddlers in your homeschool is a great way to include fantastic fun and learning experiences that will follow your kids throughout adulthood. There are many aspects of learning about apples that are easy to learn and make a great addition to your lesson plans.

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Concepts to Teach About Growing Apple Seeds

Apple Season

Fall season is the best time of year to learn about apples because it’s also considered apple season. It’s also known as apple picking time, which makes it perfect for visitng as apple orchard. Most of these places give lessons to kids about how apples start on their trees and end up in the local grocery store. Your kids will also enjoy learning about different kinds of apples.

Apple Trees

Speaking of different kinds of apples, learning about apple trees themselves can be pretty interesting for kids. They can learn about the life cycle of apple trees and how the process works season after season.

Apple Seeds

There is also a lot that can be learned about apple seeds. Just like any other life cycle, they play a major role in a tree’s growth, the type of apples it grows, and so on. Apple seeds also make for some pretty fun apple activities. 

Apple Foods

While learning about apples, make learning even more fun with cooking with apples, which is great for fine motor practice. You can make a number of easy foods using apples such as applesauce, apple pie, or even fried apples to go over oatmeal.

Easy Apple Crafts

You can do an apple print activity by taking an apple, cutting it up, and making some simple shapes. Little hands will enjoy making different shapes on white paper using the apple’s natural juice.

In addition to apple stamping, you can create dried apple garland, paint with apples, or even use the stamps to make prints on a t-shirt. 

Apple Books for Young Children

An amazing read for young and older children alike is The Value of Love: The Story of Johnny Appleseed, a favorite book from my childhood.  Your children will learn that Johnny Appleseed took thousands of seeds into the frontier and started orchards wherever he could. His goal was to bring apples to the west so that everyone could enjoy them.

After reading about Johnny Appleseed, you can do some seed sprouting of apple seeds of your own. This can also lead to doing some research on how to germinate apple seeds.  If you want to learn more about germinating and growing apple seedlings, you should check out these links:

• Growing New Fruit Plant Trees From Seed
• Growing Apple Trees From Seed
• What is the best way to germinate apple seeds?

Hands-On Apple Science Experiment

Find some apples with seeds inside and harvest those seeds for growing.  Then, move on to the seed growing phase. The supply list is simple: a plastic bag, a wet paper towel, and the seeds themselves.  Put the folded paper towel into the bag and have your children add the seeds.  You can add as many seeds as you like as long as it doesn’t get too crowded.

About a week later, you may start to notice apple seeds that have sprouted because it will have a little tiny shoot coming out. While the apple seeds may not turn into actual apple trees trees, the  main goal is to learn about nature. 

If you are actually trying to get a fruit-bearing apple tree, starting from seed is not the best bet. To create an apple tree with a particular kind of apple, branches are usually grafted from a parent tree.  That’s how the fruit is consistent.  In nature, in real life, the results are not consistent, the trees cross-pollinate and the fruit changes with each generation. Three Reasons Why You Should Not Save Seeds From Fruit).

So, if you want a fruit-bearing tree, you’d be better off buying a young apple tree.  But if you just want to learn about nature, about life?  Then, by all means, grow some apple seedlings!

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Free Apple Printables