🍎✨ Apples & Orchard Adventures – EYFS Mini Printable Pack

Bring the magic of apple season into your early years provision with this beautifully designed 10-page Apples & Orchard Adventures printable mini pack from Roxanne’s Little Explorers.

Created especially for the EYFS, this seasonal resource blends nature, science, sensory play, creativity, early maths, cooking, mindfulness and outdoor learning in a way that feels playful, practical and meaningful for young children.

Perfect for childminders, nurseries, preschools, home educators and early years settings, the pack is designed to support real experiences rather than just table-top worksheets. Children can explore where apples come from, go on a seasonal walk, investigate apples using their senses, create with natural materials, count and sort, bake together and follow an apple-themed yoga story.

What’s included

• Apples & Orchard Adventures cover page
• Apple Anatomy poster featuring key parts of an apple including the stem, leaf, skin, flesh, seeds and core
• Apple Life Cycle poster showing the journey from seed to sprout, young tree, blossom, young apple and ripe apple
• From Blossom to Apple sequencing cards for cutting out and ordering
• Apple & Cinnamon Muffins recipe with simple illustrated steps and ideas for getting children involved
• Apple Printing in a Stick Basket activity using real apples, sticks, leaves and natural materials
• Apple Tasting Investigation encouraging children to forage or collect apples, prepare them safely and compare colour, smell, texture and taste
• Fill the Apple Baskets maths activity with baskets numbered 1–5
• Apple cut-out sheet for counting, matching, sorting and filling the baskets
• Apple Yoga & Mindfulness story with 10 movements that follow the journey from tiny seed to growing tree, blossom and apple

EYFS learning opportunities

This pack supports learning across several areas of the EYFS, including:

Understanding the World
Exploring plants, seasonal change, growth, nature, food origins and the apple life cycle.

Communication and Language
Introducing new vocabulary, encouraging discussion, describing sensory experiences and talking about what children notice.

Mathematics
Counting, numeral recognition, sequencing, sorting, comparing quantities and exploring size and pattern.

Physical Development
Cutting, placing, printing, mixing, spooning, safe food preparation, balance, movement and coordination.

Expressive Arts and Design
Apple printing, natural-material creativity, colour exploration and imaginative movement.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Working together, building independence, making choices, trying new foods, developing confidence and supporting calm and self-regulation through mindfulness.

Why this pack works so well

🍎 Encourages hands-on, real-world learning
🌿 Supports outdoor and nature-based provision
🧺 Includes activities that can be adapted for different ages and stages
✂️ Combines fine motor, sensory, creative and mathematical learning
🧘 Includes mindfulness and yoga to support regulation and body awareness
🧁 Includes a simple seasonal recipe children can help prepare
🍏 Works beautifully alongside an apple-picking trip, orchard visit, autumn walk or harvest theme

Format

This is a digital PDF download containing 10 printable A4 pages.

The pack includes both portrait and landscape pages, formatted to print in the correct orientation.

For best results, print at 100% / Actual Size and laminate reusable activity sheets where appropriate.

Digital product only. No physical item will be posted.

A lovely little seasonal pack for turning a simple apple into a whole bundle of learning, conversation and adventure. 🍎🍂