Free Printable Apple Coloring Pages & Craft Templates

Every September, apples take over. The classroom door display, the “A is for Apple” wall, the apple-picking weekend, the tenth request for an apple activity before lunchtime. If you’re a teacher, a homeschool parent, or just someone who ran out of ideas by the second week — this set is built for exactly that fortnight .

It’s not just apple coloring pages printable and ready to go (though there are plenty). It’s three things in one free pack: pages to colour, templates to craft, and a few simple printables that quietly teach — parts of an apple, the life cycle, the letter A. Print what you need, skip what you don’t. 🍎

Colour

Start here for the “I just need them busy for twenty minutes” moments. The coloring pages run from big, chunky single apples for the youngest hands right up to detailed apple orchards and patterned apples for older kids who like to take their time.

Inside you’ll find a simple whole apple, an apple with a friendly worm poking out, a full apple tree, an apple basket, apple slices, and a cheerful “I love apples” page. The single-apple and apple-slices pages are the ones I’d hand a three-year-old; the orchard scene is where a seven-year-old will happily disappear for half an hour. The apple-with-a-worm one is oddly the biggest hit in our house — my two argue over who gets it every single time.

One honest warning: don’t give the busy orchard page to a tired toddler. Ask me how I know — we got one apple coloured and a full meltdown before I swapped it for the plain apple. Print, hand over the crayons, done.

Craft

This is the part most apple round-ups skip, and it’s the part teachers actually need. These are apple craft templates — shapes to print, colour, cut and build into something:

• A paper apple to cut out and decorate (the classic door-display apple).
• An apple tree template where kids add their own paper or fingerprint apples.
• Apple lacing cards — punch holes round the edge, thread wool, done. Quiet-time gold.
• A paper apple basket to colour, fold and fill.
• Apple stamps outline — colour, cut, and use as a stencil.

One printout covers a whole table of kids, and the finished crafts make an instant autumn display. The lacing cards are the calm, quiet option; the fingerprint apple tree is the one that ends with red paint on three chairs and one small cheek — worth it, but keep the wipes close. If you’re printing a class set, do it on something sturdier than thin copy paper — here’s our note on the best cardstock and paper for printables.

Learn

Here’s the bit that makes this more than a colouring session — and the reason teachers keep this page bookmarked. Three simple learning printables, no worksheet-y groaning required:

Parts of an apple. A clear apple diagram (skin, flesh, core, seeds, stem) to label or colour-code. Cut a real apple open next to it — the first time we did this, my daughter declared the seeds were “apple babies,” which, honestly, is not wrong. Perfect for a five-minute science moment.

Apple life cycle. Seed → sprout → tree → blossom → apple, in simple pictures to colour and cut into order. Kids remember it because they built it.

A is for Apple. A letter-A tracing and apple page for the preschool crowd — the gentlest possible “we did literacy today.”

Grab the Whole Apple Pack (Free PDF)

Coloring pages, craft templates and the learning printables are all in one free PDF — no email, no sign-up. Print the whole thing, or just the pages you need this week.

A Teacher’s 5-Minute Guide to Using These

If you’re planning an apple week (or an apple day), here’s the lazy-but-effective way to use the pack:

• Monday — Colour: hand out the coloring pages while you take the register. Instant calm start.
• Tuesday — Learn: do “parts of an apple” with a real apple cut open on the desk. Colour the diagram after.
• Wednesday — Craft: the apple tree template; everyone adds fingerprint apples for the display. (Fair heads-up: this is the messiest day of the week by a mile — aprons on, wipes ready, and accept that the sink will be red by home time.)
• Thursday — Life cycle: colour, cut, and put the stages in order in pairs.
• Friday — Free choice: lacing cards and the basket craft at stations.

Same pack, a whole week sorted. Parents at home: just cherry-pick whatever suits the afternoon.

More Fall Printables

Keep the season going with our free printable fall coloring pages, our pumpkin coloring pages, and our easy fall leaf crafts and templates.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are these apple printables free?

 Every page, free. I know — in the middle of September, when you’re buying apples by the crate, “free” sounds suspicious. It’s not. Print for home or classroom, just don’t resell them.

Which pages suit toddlers vs older kids?

Toddlers: the single apple, apple slices and “A is for Apple” (big shapes, forgiving). Older kids: the orchard, patterned apples, life cycle and lacing cards. Give a toddler the orchard scene and you’ll see exactly why the split matters.

Can I print just the templates, not the coloring pages?

 Yep — one PDF, so print only what you need. No forcing thirty pages through the printer for one craft.

Do these work for a homeschool apple unit?

 That’s what the “Learn” pages are built for — parts of an apple, the life cycle and letter A cover science and literacy in one theme. One apple, a whole morning sorted.