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Apple sand craft for preschoolers

September 16, 2014 by Katie 6 Comments

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We did so many apple crafts during our apple unit. Have you seen our apple tissue paper craft, apple coffee filter craft, or apple painting activity? Are you ready for one more apple craft you can do with your kids? Check out our apple sand craft for preschoolers! This was a fun art project for my kids that also worked their fine motor skills.

Note: For more kid-friendly apple activities, see my apple unit study page.  

Apple sand craft || Gift of Curiosity

For this activity, I prepared the following materials:

  • An apple outline, with the middle of the apple cut out
  • Clear contact paper, placed under the middle of the apple outline with the sticky side facing up
  • Colored craft sand, which we purchased from Discount School Supply, although you can find similar products at Amazon

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I put all of the materials on one of our Lakeshore Learning trays to help contain the mess.

Apple sand craft 1

I then invited my kids to sprinkle sand on to the contact paper in the middle of their apple outlines.

Apple sand craft 2

Because the contact paper was placed with the sticky side facing up, the sand easily stuck to it as the kids sprinkled it on. I encouraged them to use apple colored sand to make their apples. That meant they mostly used red, green, and yellow. They also used black because, well, when apples get bruised the spots can look very dark. 🙂

Apple sand craft 3

Once my kids were done decorating their apples, I simply shook the excess craft sand onto their trays. Then their artwork was ready for display!

Apple sand craft 4

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6 Comments

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  1. Katrina says

    September 16, 2014 at 5:50 am

    Such a clever and fun idea! My daughter is going to love this. Thank you, from Perth Australia, for all your wonderful ideas.

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  2. Shecki @ Greatly Blessed says

    September 18, 2014 at 6:42 pm

    Cute idea! My second grader is off track. I’m printing these for her and my 4 year old to try out. We have a bunch of craft sand I bought on a whim over a decade ago that we haven’t really used much of.

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  3. katie says

    September 23, 2014 at 9:36 pm

    Hi Katie, this is such a cute apple craft! Thanks for linking up your post at the #LovetoLearnLinky. I am going to feature your post at this weeks party. I hope you will stop by and link up again. Have a great day!

    Reply
  4. Ashley says

    September 24, 2014 at 8:12 am

    Very cute apples! Featured you on Mom’s Library this week!

    Reply

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