Free Apple Orchard Printables: 6 Worksheets for K-1st Grade

These free apple orchard printables turn apple season into a week of learning. The six worksheets cover counting, phonics, handwriting, patterns, coloring, and writing, built around a trip to the orchard: apples, a ladder, a basket, a worm, and a slice of pie.

The set is made for kindergarten and first grade, and preschoolers can join in on counting and coloring. Each page is short enough to fit beside your other lessons.

Free for your family, co-op, or classroom. Prints on regular letter paper. Every page is checked for mistakes before we post it.

What's in the apple orchard printables

1. Counting apples

Five rows of apples, from two up to six, in mixed order. Kids count each row and write the number in the box, building the one-to-one match between a number and an object.

Make it easier: Line up real apples to match each row before writing the number.
Make it harder: Ask which row has the fewest apples, or how many rows one and three have together.

2. Word match

Draw a line from each picture to its word: a worm, a cut apple showing its seeds, a ladder, a whole apple, and a pie. Early readers can sound out the w in worm or the p in pie, then check the rest.

Make it easier: Read the five words aloud together before your child draws any lines.
Make it harder: Cover the words and have your child spell each one out loud from the picture alone.

3. Tracing

The same five words again. Kids trace the dotted letters, then write each word again on the line below.

Make it easier: Trace just the first letter of each word, or trace with a finger before picking up the pencil.
Make it harder: Cover the tracing box and write all five words from memory, then read them back.

4. Patterns: what comes next?

Four rows, each with its own rule: red/green apples alternating, two greens and a red repeating, a basket and two red apples repeating, then a red apple, a green apple, and a basket repeating. Kids draw what comes next in the box.

Make it easier: Build row one with real red and green apples before your child draws it.
Make it harder: Have your child say each rule out loud, then invent a new pattern.

5. Coloring page

A big apple tree with a ladder against the trunk and a full basket of apples on the grass. One of our most requested apple coloring pages: bold, simple lines for small hands, with open space for crayons.

Make it harder: Color the apples on the tree in a repeating pattern, like red, green, red, green.

6. Draw and write

Kids draw their favorite apple treat in the big box, then finish the sentence “My favorite apple treat is…” on the lines below. Drawing first gives them something to write about.

Make it easier: Your child tells you the word, you write it lightly, and they trace over it.
Make it harder: Write two sentences, each with a capital letter and a period.

What kids practice with these apple worksheets

• Counting and writing numbers. Kids count groups up to six and write the matching number.
• Phonics. Real patterns worth pointing out: the ee team in seed, the ie team in pie, the r-controlled vowel in worm (“or” spells an /er/ sound), and the doubled consonant that keeps the vowel short in ladder.
• Handwriting. Tracing dotted letters, then writing the word alone.
• Patterns. Four rules, from a two-item repeat to a three-item repeat, an early building block for algebra.

A simple 5-day apple orchard plan

1. Monday: Count out six apples from the fruit bowl, then do the counting page.
2. Tuesday: Say the five words together, then do the word match page.
3. Wednesday: Do the tracing page; point out the double letters in ladder.
4. Thursday: Sort apples by color to build a pattern, then do the patterns page.
5. Friday: Slice or bake something with apples, color the tree, and finish the draw-and-write page.

Using the set in preschool, kindergarten, and first grade

Preschool: Stick to counting, coloring, and the first two pattern rows; skip the writing.

Kindergarten: Go through every page in order, nothing to skip.

First grade: Try the harder version of each page and ask for a full sentence on the last page.

How apples grow

An apple tree covers itself in pink-and-white blossoms each spring. Bees carry pollen between the flowers, and each pollinated blossom can become an apple. It grows all summer, starting small, hard, and green, and reaches full size and color by early fall. That’s why picking, with a ladder and a basket like the ones on the coloring page, happens in September and October.

Apple orchard books to read with this set

• Apple Farmer Annie by Monica Wellington
• The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall
• Apples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell
• Ten Apples Up on Top! by Theo LeSieg (a pen name of Dr. Seuss)

Printing tips and answer key

• Print only the pages you need for the day; each one stands alone.
• Slip the counting, tracing, and patterns pages into a page protector and reuse them with a dry-erase marker.
• Use cardstock for the coloring page if your child paints instead of colors.

Answers: Counting, top to bottom: 2, 6, 3, 5, 4 (in mixed order). Patterns, top to bottom: row 1 (red, green, red, green, red) → green apple; row 2 (green, green, red, green, green) → red apple; row 3 (basket, red, red, basket, red) → red apple; row 4 (red, green, basket, red, green) → basket.

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