While apple crafts are designed for children of all ages, that doesn’t mean they can’t become a family activity. Here are some great apple crafts that the whole family can enjoy.
Apple Print Craft
* Materials Needed:
- Apples
- Paper towels
- Styrofoam plate, meat tray or other shallow dish
- Paint
- Construction paper
* Directions:
- Cut the apple in half. Experiment with cutting your apples different ways, so you’ll have a variety of print options to create.
- Core your apple to make a traditional cut.
- Cut through the middle of the apple to make apple star prints.
- Cut the apple into quarters to make even more prints.
- Fold the paper towel into quarters and lay it on the bottom of your shallow dish.
- Pour paint into the center of the paper towel so that you are turning the paper towel into a stamp pad. Although you can use any paint colors you wish, red, green and yellow are normally used.
- Dip your apple pieces into the paint, making sure you’re pressing the cut side into the paint.
- Dab the apple around the edges of the paper towel to wipe off the excess paint.
- Press apple pieces onto construction paper to make your apple prints.
Apple Smiles
* Materials Needed:
- Apples
- Peanut butter
- Miniature marshmallows
* Directions:
- Cut the apple into wedges.
- Smear peanut butter onto one side of two different wedges.
- Place some marshmallows onto one of the apple wedges, make sure that you space them apart some
- Now place the other apple wedge, peanut butter side down, on the marshmallows.
- Ta dah! You’ve made an apple smile. The red skin is the lips and the marshmallows are the teeth
Popcorn Apple Blossom Pictures
* Materials Needed:
- Popped popcorn
- Blue, green and brown construction paper.
- Glue
* Directions:
- Using brown construction paper, markers, paint or crayons, create a tree that fills the entire blue piece of construction paper.
- Add green leaves to the ends of the branches.
- Glue popped popcorn onto the areas around the green leaves to create your apple blossoms.
- Allow your picture to dry.
- Note: Absent construction paper, you can use blue paper and some paint or markers to make the tree branches and leaves.
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