The bright color and plastic flesh make the apple a versatile material for creating themed crafts, figurines or decorations for the holiday.
Making apple crafts instills in the child a love of creativity and develops a rich imagination in him. Primary school children can make crafts on their own, and in kindergarten, parents and educators will help children.
Preparatory stage
Before you start making apple crafts with your own hands, you need to take care of the preparation of tools and materials.
For work you will need:
- Plasticine;
- Cardboard and colored paper;
- Beads and thin ribbons;
- Toothpicks;
- Glue;
- Sharp knife;
- Apples.
When choosing apples, you need to pay attention to their high-quality appearance. Fruit can be either small or large.
The choice of the size depends entirely on the idea for the apple craft you like. The color of the fruit goes well in any variant. Before work, the fruit must be washed and dried with a towel.
Important: only an adult should use a knife when making crafts, children play the role of assistants - they connect parts, string apple slices on skewers, ornaments.
Craft options
Do not be upset if the products turn out to be imperfect the first time. Such crafts cannot be stored for a long time, which means that you can always make new unusual products of the selected topic.
To prevent the apple slices from darkening, sprinkle them with lemon juice. So they will keep their fresh look longer.
Funny snowman
You will need:
- A couple of yellow apples;
- Toothpicks - 2 pcs.;
- Carrot;
- Black beads;
- Black peppercorns.
Work progress:
- Apples are stacked on top of each other and connected with a toothpick or skewer.
- On the upper apple, the side part is cut off with a knife. This will be the face of the snowman.
- On it you need to place eyes from black peppercorns and a nose from a piece of carrot.
- Then the snowman needs to be attached to the hands. They are easy to do by sticking toothpicks into the apple flesh on the sides, and cut out the mittens from the carrots.
- Black beads are suitable as buttons on the belly.
Crafts from apples for children can be made for a matinee in kindergarten or for a New Year's holiday.
Bird from apple
Decorating in the shape of a bird will add flavor and originality to the festive table. The invited guests will certainly appreciate the talent of the master and ask how to make a craft from apples.
You will need:
- Large apple;
- Pepper peas;
- Carrot;
- Toothpicks;
- Pins;
- Lemon acid.
Work progress:
- A large apple is taken and a third part is cut off from it. It will come in handy later to create the neck and head;
- From the remaining part, thin slices of the same shape are cut in the amount of 4 pieces;
- Similar elements are cut out on the sides of the fruit;
- To prevent the figurine from darkening, sprinkle the flesh and cut slices with lemon juice.
- The cut parts must be laid in such a way that they are in the place from which they were cut and carefully bring each slice a little towards the tail;
- All parts are attached with toothpicks;
- the part of the apple set aside at the beginning of the description is taken and a piece 1 cm wide is cut from the middle. This will be the bird's neck. With the help of a toothpick, it is stuck into the apple pulp from both sides;
- A beak is formed from a piece of carrot;
- The other end of the toothpick is inserted into the torso. The bird's eyes are made from peppercorns.
Adhering to the description of the master class on creating crafts from apples, you will get an amazing bird, which you need to sprinkle with lemon juice at the end of the work.
ladybug
Making a bug beloved by children will give a child a lot of joy.
You will need:
- Medium apple;
- Skewers;
- Grape berry;
- Sharp knife;
- Lemon juice
- Chocolate dragees;
Work progress:
- The apple must be divided into two parts by removing the core;
- Sprinkle with lemon juice so that the pulp does not acquire
- On the apple, you need to make a shallow cut with a sharp knife and several indentations on both sides;
- Fill the side recesses with chocolate dragees;
- Insert a toothpick into the edge of the apple, string a grape on it;
- Insert two apple slices into the stem of the grape berry. They will be a kind of beetle antennae.
The ladybug is ready! In the photo of apple crafts, you can see how appetizing such a ladybug with specks of chocolate dragees looks.
Family of caterpillars
From ripe and poured apples, you can make a whole family of beautiful caterpillars - mother, father and baby.
You will need:
- Bulk apples - 14 pieces;
- Safety pins;
- Satin ribbon;
- Yarn;
- Velvet paper;
- Skewers.
Prepared materials and tools are laid out on the desktop, apples are sorted by type and size in order to choose suitable items for the craft. This is followed by step-by-step instructions:
- To begin with, they make a mother caterpillar. You need a couple of medium-sized apples and join them with a skewer. In a similar way, connect 2 more apples. It turned out the body of 4 hard apples;
- 6 circles are molded from carrots, put on skewers and attached to the tummy of the mother's caterpillar;
- The head is secured with small skewers. Then grapes are pricked on it. The eyes are made of colored black paper and glued to tape, controlling their symmetrical arrangement;
- Mom needs to dress up the caterpillar. To do this, a hat in the form of a hat is made from a thin satin ribbon and feathers and fixed on the head with tape. You can make beads from berries on the neck.
The dad's caterpillar is made precisely, the only difference is in the decoration. Dad's head can be decorated with a cylinder made of thick paper:
- At this stage of the work, two circles are cut out, different in size. A smaller circle will serve as the base for the bottom of the cylinder being made, and a larger circle for the base of the hat and brim;
- It is necessary to cut a strip out of velvet paper, which must be glued into the ring so that the diameter of the small circle coincides with the diameter of the large circle. One side of the ring is coated with clerical glue and glued to the bottom of the smaller circle. The second side of the ring is glued to a large circle in the very center. The made cylinder is fixed on the head of the dad's caterpillar with a safety pin.
A baby in a family of caterpillars is made from four small apples. The stages of its manufacture are similar to those described above, but differs in the presence of hairs. They are made from yarn and fixed with a safety pin.
Apple candlestick
An easy-to-make apple candlestick will surprise you with its originality. A beautiful apple is taken, the core is cut out. A candle is inserted into it. Next, you need to decorate the sides of the apple and it all depends on your imagination.
You can cut beautiful patterns, squares, circles, decorating as you wish. It is important that the apple is stable, for this you can cut the stem a little from the bottom.
Using these instructions, you can create beautiful apple crafts with the participation of children. Edible apple decorations will impress any kid and awaken the appetite of little ones, and for adults they can easily become a starting point for a serious hobby for this type of creativity.
Photo of crafts from apples
