Fun Preschool Apple Color Sorting Activity

Inside: Put together a preschool apple color sorting activity that can be done with or without a light table!

During our apple theme I put together an apple color sorting activity that also works fine motor skills.

Preschoolers (and older toddlers!) love using bug tongs to pick up the apples and place them into the matching bowls! Watch the video:

You have an assortment of red, yellow and green apples and sorting cards.

What to do?

Create a color sorting activity!

We’ve done this with real apples, later having taste tests.

But for this particular activity I decided to use our fake apples that worked well with bug tongs.

I grabbed matching bowls from our collection of sorting bowls and the children loved transferring the apples!

Preschool Apple Color Sorting Activity

Supplies

• Red, yellow and green sorting cards (I used the cards from our Apple Orchard Packet)
• Red, yellow and green sorting bowls
• Red, yellow and green apples (I used this set.)
• Tongs
• Basket

Setting Up This Activity

You can display this activity at a light table or a regular table. We’ve done both, as you can see in the photos. The activity will be set up the same way no matter which table you decide to use.

Place the following on the table:

• Red, yellow and green apples in a basket or some sort of container
• Red, yellow and green sorting bowls displayed across the table
• Tongs (I now have red, yellow and green tongs in my set, so I matched them with the bowls.)
• Red, yellow and green labeled cards

Invite them to use the tongs to transfer each apple into the matching bowl.

When done, pour them all back into the basket!

Extension

Apple Tree

You can add an apple picking tree to your dramatic play area, as we did in our apple orchard dramatic play activity.

More information: Apple Orchard Dramatic Play

Circle Time Activity

• Place the sorting bowls and color cards in the middle of the circle time area.
• Hand each child a fake apple.
• As you call on each child, have them tell you what color their apple is and then they will place it in the matching color bowl.
• When everyone has had a turn, count how many apples are in each bowl.

More Apple Activities

• Apple Theme Playdough
• Way Up High in the Apple Tree Circle Time Activity
• Apple Suncatchers
• Apples and Rice Sensory Bin
• Apple Muffins