These free Apple Cider & Donuts printables turn a fall cider-stand trip into six pages of practice: counting donuts, matching words, tracing, patterns, coloring, and a short writing prompt. The pages use five simple words, cup, donut, apple, jug, and plate, all things you’d see at a real cider stand.
The set is made for kindergarten and first grade. Preschoolers who know a cider stand can do the counting and coloring pages with a little help on the rest.
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What's in the Apple Cider & Donuts printables
1. Counting donuts
Five rows of the same pink frosted donut with sprinkles, six down to two per row in mixed order. Kids count the donuts in each row and record the total in the box beside it.
Make it easier: Use real mini donuts, crackers, or buttons and move one aside for each donut your child counts.
Make it harder: Ask which row has the most donuts, or how many donuts are in the first two rows together.
2. Word match
Left side: a donut, apple, cup of cider, jug of cider, and empty plate, each with a dot. Right side scrambles those five words, one dot each, for your child to connect with a pencil line.
Make it easier: Say cup, donut, apple, jug, and plate aloud together, tapping each picture as you go.
Make it harder: Fold back the picture side so only the words show, then have your child read them before matching.
3. Tracing
The same five words again, each next to its picture. Kids trace the dotted gray letters, then write the word again on their own.
Make it easier: Trace the donut and apple words with a finger before picking up a pencil.
Make it harder: Write the words from memory, then use two of them in one sentence about the cider stand.
4. Patterns: what comes next?
Four rows with a rule to spot: donut-cup trading off, mostly cups with one donut, apples and donuts in a block, then donut-cup-apple repeating. Kids draw what comes next in the box.
Make it easier: Line up real or paper cups and donut shapes to build the first row before drawing it.
Make it harder: Ask your child to say each pattern out loud, then build a new cup-and-donut pattern of their own.
5. Coloring page
A little cider stand with a striped awning, a jug and cups of cider, a plate of donuts, and a basket of apples. It’s a busy Apple Cider & Donuts coloring page with big, simple shapes that leave room for crayons.
Make it harder: Color the awning stripes in a pattern, like two colors that repeat.
6. Draw and write
A big empty box for drawing what to buy at the cider stand, then the sentence starter “At the cider stand, I would buy…” The drawing gives your child something real to write about.
Make it easier: Your child tells you the answer, you write it lightly, and they trace over your writing.
Make it harder: Write two sentences: what they’d buy and who they’d share it with.
What kids practice with these apple cider and donut worksheets
- Counting and writing numbers up to six, one donut at a time.
- Phonics. Plate has a silent e that makes the a say its own name; apple has a double p and ends in the “-le” pattern, the same ending as “table”; cup and jug are short words with a short u; donut is a two-syllable word.
- Handwriting. Tracing the five words, then writing each one solo.
- Patterns, spotting a cup-donut repeat and stretching to a three-item pattern.
A simple 5-day apple cider and donuts plan
- Monday: Visit an orchard or cider stand, or look at photos of one together. Do the counting page.
- Tuesday: Say cup, donut, apple, jug, and plate together, then do the word match page.
- Wednesday: Do the tracing page and point out the silent e in plate and the double p in apple.
- Thursday: Set up a pretend cider stand using the patterns from the page, then do the patterns page.
- Friday: Color the cider stand, finish the draw-and-write page, and date it for your homeschool portfolio.
Using the set in preschool, kindergarten, and first grade
Preschool: Counting, coloring, and naming what’s on the counter, pointing to the cup, jug, and plate and saying each word instead of writing it.
Kindergarten: Move through the set in order, ending with the cider-stand coloring page.
First grade: Add the harder options above, then read the finished cider-stand sentence out loud.
How apple cider is made
Apple cider starts with washed apples ground into small pieces, then pressed until the juice runs out. That juice still has tiny bits of apple floating in it, which is why cider looks cloudy instead of clear like filtered apple juice. Cider shows up at fall stands because that’s when apples are ripe and ready to pick.
Apple books to read with this set
- Apple Farmer Annie by Monica Wellington
- From Apple Trees to Cider, Please! by Felicia Sanzari Chernesky
- The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall
- Apples by Gail Gibbons
Printing this set, plus the answers
- Turn on “Fit to page” if your printer offers it, so the coloring page’s frame prints fully.
- Slip the counting, tracing, and patterns pages into page protectors for dry-erase reuse; save cardstock for the coloring page.
Answers: Counting, top to bottom: 5, 4, 3, 2, 6. Patterns, top to bottom: cup, donut, donut, apple.
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