Apple crafts - the best ideas for children and adults, detailed instructions with photo examples

What can be made from an apple? Perhaps the reader will list a list of favorite dishes, which will include this fruit.

However, did he name a "recipe" for an edible craft? After all, an apple can serve as a source of inspiration not only for the preparation of appetizing treats, but also for creating amazing objects that can delight their owner.

What kind of crafts can be made out of apples at a minimum cost? The list of products is quite large, especially if you include imagination, have patience, and arm yourself with instructions.

In addition, given the plasticity and softness of the fruit, any person's work will seem uncomplicated and in the child's digging is also not boring.

Creating a craft with a "representative" of the younger generation, you should not forget about elementary safety: all complex actions that take place using a knife, should be performed exclusively by an adult.

It is worth remembering, the apple is a natural material, capable of a rapid loss of its appearance, so before starting work, it is recommended to wash and dry the fruit thoroughly, then sprinkle it with citric acid.

Contents:

A hedgehog from apples

For the handicraft you will need some toothpicks, an apple, black pepper and berries.

Cut the fruit in half: one part will serve as the body of the animal, the other as a muzzle.

Make the hedgehog needles by inserting skewers, toothpicks into the upper part of the apple, and connect the body to the head of the forest animal, cut out in advance in the form of a triangle and decorated with eyes-crowns. Fix a berry to the base of the triangle to get a nose.

Home-made hedgehog can make a deck of leaves or twigs.

Apple family smeshariki

For this easy crafts will need apples and clay. From material for molding should make ears, eyes, mouth, limbs character. Next, you should attach the body parts to the apple, creating the image of the chosen smesharik.

Complement the fairy tale character can be made of ribbon bows / points.

Jolly Caterpillar

In addition to apples, for the craft, you should take carrots, grapes, toothpicks / skewers.

When choosing apples, you need to pay attention to their size. An interesting option would be to buy different sized fruits.

Creating a caterpillar, it is necessary to determine the sequence of apples.

The large apple-head of the caterpillar should be vertically attached to the other. Whiskers, made from grapes, can be fixed at once in the upper part of the torso, draw a funny face.

After that, you should fix the apples horizontally, the result should be a chain. For its strength, you can make legs from carrots, cutting them into equal circles and attaching them with toothpicks to the base of the caterpillar.

The number of legs should be calculated taking into account that each apple will need a pair of legs.

The caterpillar of apples is ready!

Ladybug

For this wonderful handicraft you will need a red apple, some dark berries, grapes.

Before you start, you need to cut the apple into pieces, remove the seeds and the stalk. Next, remove one half, it will not be needed in the future.

After that, make an incision in the middle on the remaining part, on each side of which we make a few holes for the berries, pre-cut in half.

Cut off the top part of the grape and attach it to the body of the insect.

The handicraft is done! Bright ladybug will be a successful decoration on the holiday table.

Apple snowman

For the craft will need several apples different in volume, toothpicks / skewers, carrots and peppercorns.

The principle of work is similar to that previously described in the creation of the caterpillar: you need to consistently put an apple smaller on another bigger one.

It should be understood that the snowman should take a vertical position, so for stability, it is advisable to cut the base of a large apple. So, fixing the apples will not end in failure, and the snowman will remain in place.

Next, you need to cut the carrots into slices and with toothpicks / skewers attach them to the middle apple, so that the edible snowman has mittens.

Decorate the smallest apple with peppercorns, making eyes, and the rest of the carrots, imitating the nose. They can be attached to the middle apple, creating buttons.

The previously described techniques are mostly designed for preschool children, who are able to perform simple actions, so the presented technology is often used by teachers in kindergartens, when children are invited to make a craft from apples.

However, what crafts from apples for school can be made by older children? One of the options can be an autumn bouquet. Such a gift can please your favorite teacher, or become a unique gift for a graduate

To create it, you need to prepare pre-washed and dried fruit/berries, leaves, skewers/sticks, a knife, tape, cling film and wrapping paper:

To begin forming the bouquet, determine the composition we want to make, then put the selected fruits and berries with the stalks facing down on the skewers/sticks.
If the selected fruit is large, you can put it on several skewers, distributing the "stems" evenly around the "perimeter" of the fruit taken.
You can also cut the fruit into halves to fasten it firmly to the sticks, but the parts in this case should be wrapped in food film to preserve the freshness of the products. This method is suitable for apples, pears, oranges, grapefruit.
Once all the necessary ingredients are assembled, the skewers or sticks should be joined together by tying them with duct tape. For beauty, you can add leaves, sprigs of rowanberries.

It remains to wrap the bouquet in festive paper and give it to the lucky man!

Owl

Thank the teacher on his professional holiday by making another interesting fall crafts. We are talking about a wise owl, which you can make from apples with your own hands.

For this you will need apples (preferably of the same color and size) and grapes, toothpicks.

Start the work by making the body and wings of the owl. To do this, you need to cut two small round parts, which should later be attached with toothpicks on both sides of the apple, resembling wings.

After that, it is necessary to make the head from another apple. It should be cut in it two large holes for the eyes, put grapes in the holes and fix it with toothpicks.

You can also make ears on the head by cutting the skin and bending the blanks up. Next, you need to fix the head to the torso by means of toothpicks.

Now you can decorate the owl, making her glasses and a book.

Cockerel out of apples

Apples can be used to make a rooster symbolizing the sun and warmth. For this purpose, you need to take two different sized fruits, carrots, peas of black pepper, toothpicks.

Washed and dried apples should be connected to each other so that the smaller apple is attached to the apple of larger size.

For stability, you can trim the base of the first fruit a little. After that, carefully make well in the upper apple and insert the peas in them. We have the eyes.

Next, you should make a crest of carrots. To do this, you should notch a small apple and place the plates of carrots in it.

You can also use plasticine instead of natural components.

Funny bear

Several apples, grapes of berries, toothpicks will be needed:

First, you should make the outline of the eyes on one apple, making two circles, but without cutting them out. After that, you need to peel the skin of the apple around the marked circles. The result should be "panda eyes".
Next, from another apple, carefully cut out the bear's paws.
Once the blanks are ready, attach the paws and head to the large apple using toothpicks.
Finish the work by decorating the head of the bear with eyes, nose and mouth. To do this, also using toothpicks, in the prepared basis for the eyes we put grapes, do from it a small mouth and nose.
If possible, you can use the remaining materials to make a barrel of honey.

Funny bear ready!

Green Frog

You can make a frog out of an apple, grapes (you can use different varieties) and a cucumber.

The selected apple must first be washed and dried. After that, the prepared fruit should be slightly cut at the base and immediately make an incision, forming the mouth of the future frog.

Next, you need to make paws from grapes, symmetrically attaching them on both sides of the apple with toothpicks.

And the final step is the creation of eyes from grapes, which are also attached to toothpicks.

If you want, you can make a nice crown from a cucumber, turning an ordinary frog into a princess from a fairy tale.

Cut a swan out of an apple

Any celebration will look spectacular, if the holiday table is decorated with a homemade swan from an apple. To do this, you need to take a large apple and cut it into two parts, so that one of them was with the stalk.

Then you should take the larger part and, turning it upside down, cut out two parts at a right angle. The result should be a piece resembling the "back" of a swan:

Next, you should make a small incision in the protruding part so that you can attach the swan's neck to the "back"
The previously cut out parts will serve as wings. From them, you need to cut several different slices, indenting about 5 millimeters from the edge and joining them.
Then proceed to work on the second part of the cut apple. It should be cut out the neck and head, which can be decorated with a carnation. The workpiece is inserted into the recess, which was made in the "back".