Apple crafts are the perfect way to add a fresh twist to your home decor, and our list of 25 Creative DIY Apple Craft Ideas is ripe for the picking! These crafts are not just about adding a pop of color; they’re about bringing a slice of the orchard into your home, transforming spaces with a hint of nature’s charm.
Whether you’re a crafting newbie or a seasoned DIY enthusiast, these apple-themed projects are delightfully simple yet striking. From rustic centerpieces to playful wall art, each idea is a unique blend of creativity and simplicity. So, let’s dive into this basket of apple-inspired crafts and bring a refreshing touch to your home!
1. Apple Button Art for Kids
Engage your children with this simple and enjoyable Apple Button Art project. It’s not only a delightful craft activity but also an excellent way to enhance fine motor skills and sensory development. Children can dive into a bowl of colorful buttons to select their preferred ones, creating a unique apple design. This craft requires basic supplies like assorted plastic buttons, white school glue, wooden board or paper, chalk, and paper and pencil. You can start by creating an apple stencil for tracing onto the board or paper. Then, kids can fill the traced apple shape with glue and strategically place buttons to form an apple. It’s an ideal craft for daycare, school, or home and can also be a thoughtful gift for teachers.
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2. DIY Yarn Apple Garland
This DIY Yarn Apple Garland is a quick and easy craft that results in a charming fall decoration. It’s so simple that children of all ages can participate in making it. The craft involves creating yarn apples, similar to making pom-poms but without the need for cutting, which makes it perfect for young crafters. To make this garland, you’ll need red and green yarn, green felt, twine, scissors, and hot glue. These yarn apples can be strung up on twine to make an attractive garland or even used as an adorable addition to a teacher’s gift. This craft is an excellent choice for a fun and easy fall project.
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3. Paper Plate and Pom Pom Core Apple Craft
This Paper Plate and Pom Pom Core Apple Craft is an excellent project for young crafters, especially those who are fond of apples. It uses two favorite crafting materials – paper plates and pom poms, making it a crowd-pleaser. The supplies required include small paper plates, red, white, and green pom poms, small black pom poms, glue, and a craft stick. The crafting process involves gluing red pom poms around the edge of the paper plate, followed by white pom poms in the middle, and a few black pom poms at the center. A craft stick is attached to the bottom with a green pom pom as a leaf, creating a cute apple representation. This craft is a fun fall activity for preschoolers, kindergartners, and older kids.
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4. DIY Decorative Wood Block Apples
Turn scrap wood into charming DIY decorative wood block apples, perfect for fall decorating or as a back-to-school gift for teachers. Start by cutting a 4×4 post into 3 blocks, each 3.75” high, and sanding them smooth. Paint each block in primary red, foliage green, or marigold, and add a half apple outline in buttermilk color. For a rustic look, sand the edges for a weathered appearance. Attach a painted wooden spool to the top and add a felt leaf cutout for a complete apple look. This project is a creative way to repurpose leftover wood and add a touch of autumn to your decor.
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5. Easy Paper Apple Craft
This paper apple craft is a colorful and engaging activity for kids, especially during fall. It enhances children’s scissor skills and fine motor abilities. The project involves cutting red paper strips and shaping them into rolls, which are then arranged on an apple template to form the apple’s shape. Green paper is used to create a leaf, adding a natural touch to the craft. This craft is not only fun but also educational, providing an excellent opportunity for children to practice essential crafting skills.
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6. Apple Coasters
Craft beautiful and functional apple coasters using simple materials. For this project, you’ll need a felt bundle in apple colors, embroidery floss, and an apple coaster template. The process involves cutting felt into apple shapes, including a few variations like a basic apple, an apple with a bite, and a segmented apple. Each coaster is made from two outer pieces of felt, with added details such as seeds, a stem, and a leaf. The pieces are sewn together with embroidery thread, creating charming coasters perfect for autumn decor or as a thoughtful handmade gift.
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7. Paperweight Rock Apple Craft
Transform ordinary rocks into delightful apple-themed paperweights with this simple craft. First, paint the rocks in shades of red and green. Once dry, cut stems from brown cardstock and leaves from green cardstock, and glue them together. Attach the stem and leaf assembly to the rock with a generous amount of glue. For an added whimsical touch, wrap a colored pipe cleaner around the rock to represent a worm, and glue googly eyes to the pipe cleaner. This craft is a fun and creative way to make decorative apple-themed paperweights, perfect for a desk or as a cute gift.
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8. Kawaii Autumn Apple Garland
Celebrate autumn with a charming garland featuring felt apples with adorable faces. This craft requires felt in various colors, embroidery floss, baker’s twine, freezer paper, and other basic sewing supplies. Trace apple shapes onto freezer paper, cut them out, and sew them together with embroidery floss. Add cute faces to the apples using embroidery stitches and attach leaves for a natural touch. Finally, string the apples together on twine, adding spacer leaves between each apple. This lightweight garland is perfect for seasonal decoration and brings a whimsical touch to any room.
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9. Paper Plate Yarn Weaving Apple Craft
This paper plate yarn weaving apple craft is a creative and engaging activity for kids. To make it, you’ll need a paper plate, red paint, white yarn, scissors, and a few other supplies. Start by painting the paper plate red and cutting notches around its edge. Wrap yarn around the plate, weaving it through the notches. Once the weaving is complete, cut out seeds from black construction paper and glue them onto the yarn. Finish by making leaves from green tissue paper and attaching them to the plate with a clothespin. This craft is a great way to develop fine motor skills and is perfect for a fun fall project.
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10. Stunning Easy Apple Craft for Preschoolers and Kids
This craft is a delightful and easy apple-themed activity perfect for young children. The process involves using a toilet paper roll dipped in paint to create circular patterns on an apple clipart, followed by creating a homemade puffy paint. The puffy paint is made by mixing white shaving cream, school glue, food coloring, and optional glitter in a sandwich bag, then piping it around the edge of the apple. A second batch of puffy paint in green is used for the stem and leaf. Once dry, the apple is cut out and glued onto a piece of cardstock, creating a stunning, dimensional art piece that’s great for decorating or as a fun learning activity.
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11. Paper Plate Bitten Apple Craft
A fun and simple craft for preschoolers, this Paper Plate Bitten Apple Craft starts by cutting an apple shape from a paper plate and shaping a leaf and stalk from the cut-off bits. After painting all the apple parts and letting them dry, the stalk and leaf are glued onto the back of the paper plate. The unique aspect of this craft is the addition of a handprint cut from skin-colored paper, glued to the back of the apple with the fingers curling around to the front, creating a three-dimensional effect of a bitten apple. It’s a creative and interactive craft that children will enjoy making and displaying.
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12. Easy 3D Paper Apple Craft for Kids
Create a visually appealing 3D apple using simple materials like red and green construction paper, scissors, a hole puncher, and paper fasteners. This craft involves cutting the construction paper into thin strips, punching holes at the ends, and then securing them together with paper fasteners. The result is a rounded, 3D paper apple with a green leaf, perfect for kids to enjoy crafting and also useful as an educational tool to discuss fruits, colors, and shapes.
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13. Paper Roll Apple Core Craft
Create a delightful apple core craft using simple materials like paper rolls, red cupcake liners, white craft paint, green construction paper, and a few other supplies. Begin by painting the paper rolls white and drawing seeds in the middle with a black marker. Insert a stick through one cupcake liner, and then glue a cupcake liner at each end of the paper roll. Finally, cut out little leaves from the green construction paper and attach them to the sticks. This easy and fun craft is perfect for kids, especially during the fall season.
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14. Tissue Paper Apple Craft
This easy and fun tissue paper apple craft is perfect for back-to-school time and is suitable for children of all ages, including preschool and kindergarten. The craft involves using a free printable apple template, white cardstock, red, green, and brown tissue paper, and white glue. Start by printing the apple outline on cardstock and applying glue to it. Then, tear and crumple pieces of tissue paper into small balls and press them onto the wet glue in color-coordinated areas to create a mosaic-like apple. Allow it to dry completely, and then display your beautiful tissue paper apple as is, or cut it out and glue it onto another piece of cardstock for added effect.
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15. Apple Wall Hanging Craft
Create a beautiful apple wall hanging with this simple craft that’s great for kids. You’ll need red acrylic paint, metal jar lids, green pipe cleaners or fake leaves, a stick or wooden dowel, string, and tape. Paint the jar lids red and bend the pipe cleaners into leaf and stem shapes. Tape these to the back of the jar lids, ensuring they look good from the front. Hang the decorated jar lids at varying lengths from a stick using twine, and then tape the ends of the strings to the back of the apples. This craft is versatile and can be customized with different types of leaves, strings, and even painted jar lid edges. It’s a perfect activity for children and can be displayed in your home or as part of a festive decoration.
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16. Paper Plate Apple Core Craft
This craft transforms a paper plate into an adorable apple core shape. You’ll need a paper plate, craft scissors, red or green craft paint, a foam paintbrush, green and brown cardstock paper, a stapler, and a black Sharpie marker. First, cut the paper plate into an apple core shape by removing two football/diamond shapes from the sides. Paint the top and bottom rims of the plate to resemble the apple’s skin, and let it dry. Then, cut out a stem from the brown cardstock and a leaf from the green, stapling them onto the painted paper plate. Finally, draw apple seeds in the center with a Sharpie marker. This craft is a fun and creative way for kids to engage in apple-themed art projects.
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17. Apple Pom Poms Craft
This craft is perfect for kids who have mastered making pom poms. You will need wool in red or green for the apple, contrasting green wool for the leaf, brown wool for the stem, and an optional key ring. The process involves wrapping wool around a pom pom maker, cutting it, and then tying it together with brown wool. A green leaf wool loop is then tied around the pom pom. After trimming the ends and opening up the pom pom, attach the stem to a key ring or make a knot at the top for a “knobbly bit” resembling an apple stem. These Apple Pom Poms can be used in play kitchens, as zipper pulls, or even as a cute teacher’s gift.
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18. Egg Carton Apple Craft
A wonderful way to recycle and craft, this egg carton apple craft is simple and engaging for kids. You’ll need an egg carton, red paint, glue, a small stick, and green card stock. Begin by cutting out two cups from the egg carton and painting them red. Insert the stick through one of the cups and then glue the two cups together to form the apple shape. Finally, cut out a leaf from green card stock, construction paper, or felt, and glue it to the stick. This craft is a great fall activity and helps teach kids about recycling and creative reuse.
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19. Paper Plate Apple Lacing Craft
This craft is a fun and interactive way for children to practice their fine motor skills while creating a cute apple-themed project. You’ll need a paper plate, a hole punch or similar tool to make holes, acrylic paint, yarn, glue, scissors, eye stickers, and a black Sharpie pen. Begin by cutting an apple shape from the paper plate, then use the remaining pieces to create a leaf and stalk. Punch holes around the apple for lacing. Paint the apple and let it dry before attaching the leaf and stalk. Next, fold circles (cut from another paper plate) in half and glue them in a row to create a worm, threading yarn through them for lacing. Add eye stickers and a smiley face to the worm’s head, and finish by attaching the worm’s thread to the back of the paper plate apple. This craft is not only artistic but also offers a playful way for kids to develop their lacing skills.
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20. Pinecone Apple Craft
Create a natural and charming apple craft using pinecones, perfect for fall decorations. This project is simple and fun, involving painting pinecones in red, yellow, or green. Break a stick into small pieces and glue them on top of the pinecones as stems. For the leaves, cut out tiny shapes from green cardstock paper, felt, or construction paper and attach them to the stems. This craft is great for kids and can be used as a delightful autumn display in your home or classroom.
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21. Paper Plate Apple Craft
Engage in a fun crafting activity by creating a paper plate apple with a cute worm. This project requires a standard and a small paper plate, red and lime green paint, green and brown cardstock, googly eyes, and a few other common craft supplies. The process involves cutting the paper plate into an apple shape, painting it red, and making a worm from the small plate. The worm is adorned with googly eyes and a smile, and it can slide in and out of the apple. This craft is a delightful way to involve children in a creative project, perfect for a fall-themed activity or learning about fruits.
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22. Back to School Apple Button Craft
Create a charming apple-themed decoration using buttons for a back-to-school craft. You’ll need white cardstock, a paper trimmer, various buttons, clear gel tacky glue, optional patterned paper, double-sided adhesive, and a frame. Start by trimming the cardstock to 4″ x 6″. Use an apple coloring page outline as a guide to draw an apple shape on the cardstock. Glue buttons within this outline, starting with the outline and filling it in. Add green and brown buttons for the leaf and stem. Once finished, trim patterned paper to 5″ x 7″ and attach the apple button art to the paper using adhesive. Frame your artwork for a decorative piece that can also make a great gift for teachers.
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23. Stuffed Paper Apples Craft
A perfect craft for fall, stuffed paper apples are both fun to make and visually appealing. Materials needed include a brown paper bag, manila file folders or sturdy paper, scissors, pencil, paint, sponges, old newspaper or crinkle cut paper for stuffing, a stapler or hole punch with yarn, and brown and green construction paper. Start by cutting a large apple shape from the brown paper bag and painting it. Once dry, secure the front and back apple shapes together, leaving a hole for stuffing. Fill the apple with crinkle cut paper or torn newspaper, then close the hole. Finally, cut out a stem and leaf from construction paper and glue them to the apple. This craft is engaging and allows children to explore different textures and colors.
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24. DIY Felt Apple Coasters
For a practical and creative craft, try making DIY felt apple coasters. You’ll need red felt, a Sizzix Apple Bigz Die, a Big Shot cutting machine, cutting pads, white scoreboard mat-board, spray adhesive, and fabric fusion glue. First, cut two pieces of felt the same size as the mat-board and adhere them with spray adhesive. Then create a ‘sandwich’ with the felt-covered mat-board, the apple die, and the cutting pads, and run it through the Big Shot machine. After cutting out the apple shapes, attach a green button to each apple’s leaf using fabric fusion glue. As a finishing touch, wrap the coasters with green trim. This craft is an excellent gift idea for teachers and can also be used as fall or harvest decorations.
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25. Cardboard Yarn Apples
Create charming apple decorations using yarn and cardboard. This craft involves cutting an apple shape from cardboard and then wrapping it with red or green yarn until it’s fully covered. A small twig is glued to the top as the stem, and a leaf cut from green felt is attached for added detail. This easy and fun project is perfect for fall decor or as a creative activity for kids, combining simple materials and a bit of imagination to create delightful apple-themed ornaments.
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In conclusion, these apple-themed crafts provide a diverse range of creative and educational activities suitable for children of various ages. From the tactile experience of the Stuffed Paper Apples and the imaginative Paper Plate Apple Lacing Craft to the decorative appeal of the Back to School Apple Button Craft and the practicality of the DIY Felt Apple Coasters, each craft offers a unique way to engage with the theme of apples. These projects not only foster creativity and fine motor skills but also offer fun learning opportunities, perfect for seasonal activities, classroom projects, or crafting at home.
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