Apple crafts: step by step description of making crafts (73 photos)

What to occupy a child at leisure. The optimal choice to do crafts. Together with children with their own hands can make wonderful crafts toys, jewelry, souvenirs and gifts.

Crafts will not only help to decorate the room, but also to furnish the interior in an original way for any themed holiday. We suggest using natural products as the craft material. In the midst of apple season, edible crafts will bring pleasure to both baby and mom.

Flavorful creativity

Joint leisure activities benefit children, develop a well-rounded, harmonious personality. Involving the child in daily and creative activities, you instill in them a love of work, teach them to think logically, learn tool skills, develop fine motor skills.

Benefits of apples is known to all. This product is rich in iron, calcium, and an abundance of many vitamins, minerals and trace elements makes it indispensable on our table. And for the little body is a complex balanced elements. When you make crafts from such a treat, you always have the opportunity to try a juicy product.

Important: but it is worth remembering that self-made treats can be edible and inedible. If glue, duct tape, plasticine, absorbent cotton, paper are used as additional materials, it is unlikely that you will want to try it.

How to choose the material

For creativity, choose apples of different sizes and colors. Suitable large and small varieties, red, green, yellow. Fruits with small defects, dents, dots on the skin are used. They can be decorated with auxiliary materials or use separate parts of the apple.

It is economically advantageous to use the product of the second, third grade to make edible compositions consisting of small parts. For large crafts, it is better to choose a whole and beautiful fruit. So the whole composition will look more effective, more colorful.

In one handicraft you can combine several fruits and products, large and small. Fruits are very handy material for small hands, they are easy to hold and work with them.

What souvenirs you can make yourself

From apples make original decorations for the festive table in the form of swans, owls, flowers, decorate an effective serving dish. This is especially pleasing to children. They make fruit towers, Christmas candles and wreaths, children's crafts. Fragrant souvenirs will please colleagues at work and friends. Apples would be great for school or garden fairs.

Selecting Tools

The following tools and materials will be needed to make the decorations with your own hands:

A set of fruits and vegetables: apples, grapes, olives, berries;
Natural ornamental material: cones, leaves, twigs. Can serve as an additional decoration, as well as the main element of the composition;
Toothpicks. Needed for fixing parts, setting on the base;
A knife;
Stationery: markers, colored paper for details, cardboard, plasticine, glue, double-sided tape;
Styrofoam blanks, on which it is convenient to attach fruit;
Cardboard boxes, trays, sheet metal, platter, plywood and plastic are used as a base for massive structures;
Decor: ribbons, beads, braid, sequins, paints.

A few crafting tips to make colorful, neat crafts quickly, uniquely, and for the long haul:

Before using, all components should be thoroughly cleaned of dirt, dust, washed and well dried;
To prevent the cut of the apple from darkening, moisten it with lemon juice;
Cutting tools for shaped objects must be sharpened. Then the work will have flat, not jagged edges. Exactly cut out parts according to the template will allow you to assemble a beautiful composition;
When working with sharp objects, help children, explain safety techniques and watch the process closely;
Sometimes the idea for a craft comes up during the selection of an ornamental material. Show imagination and creative skills. The ability to combine different textures and colors will help create unusual, unique souvenirs.

Fun Caterpillar" crafts

We suggest visiting our master class with children on making a caterpillar craft out of apples. It can be made with toddlers, the older kids will cope with the work on their own. When working you will not need sharp objects, you will need:

Apples of equal size, since the caterpillar's entire body consists of equal circles. Color of fruit does not matter, choose the same color, 5 pieces;
Wooden toothpicks, 5 pieces;
Thread, needle, scissors;
Plasticine for small parts:
Rowan bunches for decoration, optional.

Step by step instructions

Step 1: Prepare the tools and materials. Peel, wash, dry.
Step 2: String the berries as beads, 10-15 cm long. Make the horns 5 cm long.
Step 3. line the apples in a row. Join together with toothpicks. Put head on top with a slant. Put on berry horns, put on beads.
Step 4 Make eyes, mouth, tail from plasticine. Cheerful caterpillar ready.

A paper apple

For younger students will be interesting paper decorations. How to make a paper handicraft volumetric apples will prompt our next detailed master class:

You will need double-sided paper in red, yellow, and orange. According to the template on the paper, mark and cut out an apple. Such blanks need 3-10 pieces. The more parts, the more puffy the handicraft will be;
We make the bottom of the blanks at the bottom of the notches on the 1/3 of the height. Insert details one into one;
Glue a twig of paper and a shaped leaf to the finished product. Such an "apple" can hang on the tree.

A box for mom

For little fashionistas and their mothers will be interesting caskets, in which you can store jewelry, condiments and various little things. The casket is a craft from plastic bottles in the form of an apple, very practical and original. In two bottles cut the bottom 5-10 cm in height. Melt the edges over a fire or use masking tape. Put the bottoms on each other with the bottom turned out. Decorate with braid, beads if desired.