Autumn craft activities are a fun way to celebrate harvest time! This apple stamping pumpkin craft is easy to prepare, and the kids love using food to make crafts.

I’m not sure what is so thrilling about stamping, but my son and his friend were having so much fun smacking their pumpkin stamps down on the paper. The kids actually made 2 more pages of pumpkin apple stamps!

As a busy mom of 3 boys, I love that this craft is easy to prepare and not too messy. All you need is some washable paint, half an apple, paper, and a little boy or girl ready to make an apple stamp pumpkin craft!

Apple Stamped Pumpkins Craft for Preschoolers

Materials to Painting Pumpkins with Apples Craft:

Apple
Orange Paint (washable)
Green Marker

Paint Brushes
White Paper
Paper Plate

How to Paint Pumpkins with Apples:

Cut apple in half
Place paper on table
Put washable orange paint on paper plate
Use paint brush to cover the flat half of the apple
Let your preschooler stamp orange apple shapes on the white paper
Let picture dry
Use green marker to add stems to the orange apple/pumpkin shapes

Preschool Learning Activities with Pumpkins

Talk to your preschooler about the color orange. Ask your toddler or preschooler to name other things that are orange.

Count the number of stamps. Practice counting to 10 with your preschooler. Count how many pumpkins are on the paper. Try to fit 10 pumpkins on your paper. You may need 2 sheets of paper depending on the size of your apple stamp!

Talk to your preschooler about the different parts of the pumpkin. The pumpkin has a stem, skin, and seeds. Discuss how pumpkins grow from a seed.

Compare and contrast a pumpkin and apple. Talk to your preschooler about how a pumpkin and an apple are the same and how they are different. Both have seeds on the inside, both have a stem, and are a round shape. Pumpkins are orange, grow on the ground on a vine, roast the seeds of a pumpkin. Apples are red (green or yellow), grown on a tree, don’t eat the seeds of an apple. Pumpkin Books to go Along with a Harvest Pumpkin Craft

Grab this FREE printable below for the step by step guide of the Apple Pumpkin Stamping Activity!

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Pumpkin Stamping Activity for Preschoolers

Easy pumpkin stamping activity with apples! Keep little hands busy with this activity for preschoolers.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Active Time 30 minutes

Total Time 40 minutes

Difficulty Easy

Materials

Apple
Orange Paint (washable)
Green Marker

Tools

Paint Brushes
White Paper
Paper Plate

Instructions

Cut apple in half
Place paper on table
Put washable orange paint on paper plate
Use paint brush to cover the flat half of the apple
Let your preschooler stamp orange apple shapes on the white paper
Let picture dry
Use green marker to add stems to the orange apple/pumpkin shapes

Notes

Preschool Learning Activities:

Talk to your preschooler about the color orange.

Count the number of stamps on the paper to practice counting.

Talk to your preschooler about pumpkins and the different parts of the pumpkin.

Compare and contrast a pumpkin and apple.

TIP: Make sure you put your kids in old clothes even when they are using washable paints.