We love sharing activities for toddlers and preschoolers as young kids are so curious about the world! Everyone wants to get their kids excited about healthy eating and fruit activities for toddlers and preschoolers are a great way to do it.
These activities are great for EYFS and preschool age kids to help them get interested in fruit and healthy eating.
We totally recommend trying different fruits alongside these activities too, a great way to pair up a snack and something fun to do!
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Fruit Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers
Because there are quite a few activities in this list I’ve split it into fruit crafts for toddlers and easy fruit activities for toddlers to make it easier to navigate and find the activities that you are interested in.
All of the activities I’m listing today are listed in the order that they appear in the image above but there are obviously lots of cool ideas that aren’t shown so do make sure you take a look through all the list, you wouldn’t want to miss anything good!
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Free Fruit Templates
We use printables quite a lot in our crafts because it helps make them quick and easy to set up.
Whenever we share a printable we also share lots of ideas of ways that you can use them too, although of course if you just want to use them as colouring pages that’s perfect too – it’s always a nice simple activity!
Make sure that you check out all of our fruit templates:
Fruit Crafts for Toddlers and Preschoolers
Make these bright and cheerful apple suncatchers from Crafts on Sea that will look great hung up in a window.
This fingerprint pineapple from Crafty Morning could make a cute keepsake too!
I’m always a big fan of paper plate crafts because they’re a material that’s cheap and easy to get hold of and they can also hold a lot of paint, handy if you’re getting creative with toddlers and preschoolers! This paper plate watermelon from Crafts on Sea is a great one to try.
This P is for pineapple craft from School Time Snippets is ideal if you are doing letter of the week or alphabet crafts too.
Look We’re Learning shares a Coffee filter apple craft.
Strawberries have to be my kids favorite fruits and I’m sure lots of other kids feel the same! This fingerprint strawberry from Creative Family Fun would be a great choice.
Grab the yellow paint and make this B is for banana craft from No Time For Flashcards.
I’m a big fan of getting kids to paint with things other than a paintbrush so this watermelon craft from Crafts on Sea is a good option. If your child is worried about getting paint on their fingers you could hold the pom pom with a clothes peg.
This apple painting craft from Crafts on Sea is an update on a classic fruit activity for preschool and would work well for fall, harvest or Thanksgiving too.
Try this torn paper apple craft from Craft on Sea.
This foil painted pumpkin from Crafts on Sea is another great alternative to painting using a paintbrush.
Jinxy Kids’ tissue paper apple looks like a really fun hands on activity.
Create this watermelon handprint craft from Crystal and Comp.
The Best Ideas for Kids shares a A is for apple craft.
Try out a fun way to print with this bubble wrap pineapple from Non Toy Gifts.
I love all the different fruit and veggies used in this bubble wrap printed fruit activity from In The Playroom.
Easy Fruit Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers
This lemon playdough recipe from Crafts on Sea is really easy to make and smells great too.
Print and play this pineapple shapes memory game from the Mama Workshop.
I love activities that are inspired by kids books and these The Watermelon Seed activities from Homebound But Hopeful look really good including sewing, fine motor and some easy activities counting watermelon seeds.
I love the results of this painting with fruit activity from My Bored Toddler.
Grab these fruit themed cutting strips from Welcome To Mommyhood.
Try different fruits and decide which you like the most, you could try picking your favorites ingredients to make a smoothie too.
The Natural Homeschool shares a fruit names printable colouring book for The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Grab these strawberry lifecycle printables from Welcome To Mommyhood to learn more about how these plants grow.
These Farmers Market printables from Natural Beach Living are a good way to help teach about eating the rainbow too.
Try this watermelon seed matching game from The Mama Workshop.
Make this apple playdough from The Best Ideas for Kids.
More Fun Activities for Toddlers
Want more inspiration? We love these summer activities for toddlers.
These are such lovely ideas 🙂
What wonderful fruit activities and crafts! Thank you for including our pineapple shapes matching game!