Feature cooking and food preparation apple themes, and incorporate nutrition lessons into your schedule and share information about types of apples and flavors into the projects. Working directly with the apples can help kindergarten children grasp concepts about different ways to cook apples and decorate them. Kids also enjoy sampling different flavors and finding out what trees they came from.
Cook an apple pie with the class, if you have access to cooking equipment. Encourage the kids to help you fill the pie and add crust and other ingredients, but keep them away from the oven. You can fulfill this aspect of the project and share the pie with the class. You might want to also help the kids make apple characters with toothpicks, carrot slices, olive slices and other foods. The kids can use the chopped-up food to sculpt apple face. Use toothpicks to attach tomatoes and other foods to the apple or apply cream cheese to the apple and help the kids build a face, so the features stick to the apple easily.
Highlight all sorts of activities centered about an apple-tree theme. Focus on nutrition, gardening techniques and apple tree species. This theme can include crafts, field trips to orchards, stories about apple trees and other lessons. Take the kids to visit an apple orchard and talk about various types of apple trees there. The kids can then paint their favorite type of apple tree or color printed pictures of these trees. Read stories about apple trees, such as "The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree" by Gail Gibbons.
Hone in on a more detailed aspect of apples by creating a theme about apple parts. Feature crafts, activities and other specific lessons to teach kids about all the pieces that make up an apple. This theme can help kindergartners understand how an apple comes together and which parts they should or shouldn't eat. The kids can draw pictures of various parts, such as seeds, the stem and flesh of the apple. Help them write down which parts are edible and other parts that they shouldn't eat.
Kindergarten is the time when many kids begin learning about letters and numbers, so why not create an apple theme around the alphabet and counting. First, work on teaching the kids how to count to 10. Then test what they know by placing apples on the table and seeing if they can count the apples. Teach them how to spell the word "apple" and explain that A is the first letter in the alphabet and it can stand for "apple." The kids can also cut out apples from red or green construction paper and glue them on card stock paper in rows with different amounts in each row. The first row can contain one big apple and underneath they can glue two apples in that row and so on.