If you’ve been apple picking this fall, you probably have more apples than you know what to do with (unless you are a really good baker and can make super good apple pie or your own apple sauce). Let’s turn those apples into some super fun crafts like apple painting!
My daughter and her friend had a ton of fun painting with apples and there are a few different ways you can do it. Any way you decide, you’ll need:
- Apples
- Paper
- Paints
- Toothpicks
- Paper towels
- A small towel
- Small cookie cutters (optional)
- Gummy worms (optional)
- Leaves (optional)
Step 2) Use a paper towel to dry off the cut edge of the apple.
Step 3) Place your painting paper on a towel. We all know that you won’t be able to cut the apple perfectly straight so the towel gives you some padding to be able to press every bit of the apple onto the paper. Make sense?
Step 4) Have your kids paint the apples. They can paint the entire apple like the green and red one on the right above, or they can paint just the edges like the red one on the left above.
Step 5) Press the apple onto the paper. Remember to press all over the apple to get every part stamped on the paper.
Step 6) Spear an apple seed with a tooth pick then dip it in paint and stamp it on your paper in the middle of your apple. Use another tooth pick dipped in paint to make the stem of the apple.
Optional steps: Use gummy worms dipped in paint to make a worm coming out of your apple.
Use real leaves that you’ve painted to stamp leaves onto your apples.
