Apple crafts with their own hands - the choice of additional materials, tools, interesting instructions and photo examples

Necessary Materials and Tools

• Apples;
• Sharp knife;
• Toothpicks;
• Vegetables;
• Plasticine, colored paper, cardboard, glue, ribbons, beads;
• Natural materials: cones, leaves, berries.

How to choose apples

Choose fruits without visible damage. The choice of color and size depends on the idea of the craft. Coloring of apples is perfectly combined in any combination, but for the snowman it is better to take the fruits of light coloring, and for the caterpillar to pick fruit of the same color.

The size and shape of the fruit can give ideas for crafts. You can use small and large fruits. If you thought of a figure with a head - use a larger apple. There are no strict rules, give free rein to your imagination.

Important! Wash the fruit thoroughly and dry it with a towel before you start.

What kind of knife to use

For the work to bring pleasure, you need good tools. Choose a small knife, comfortably lying in your hand and sharpened. If you want to make beautiful cuts on the rind, a special carving knife comes in handy, but such work requires skill.

Important! Do not allow children to use the knife by themselves. It can lead to injuries.

What fruits and vegetables to take in addition

You may need carrots, grapes of different varieties, black currant berries, cranberries, peppercorns.

Natural and decorative materials

Using additional material, you can create not just a handicraft, but an entire composition.

Cardboard will be needed for a stand for the handicraft. If conceived as a large craft, you can use the lid of the shoe box for the coaster. It must be decorated beforehand: paint with acrylic paint or gouache, glue paper.

Cones, leaves, twigs should be clean and dry. Wash conifer branches and dry them with a paper towel. Leaves can be dried by putting them between the pages of a book or ironing them between the paper sheets. Fresh leaves, ornamental grasses will quickly wither, the craft will look ugly.

Plasticine will help to create and fix on the apple paws, eyes, other additional elements of the figure. Bows and beads will decorate the apple hero, help to create fun images.

To create small details, colored paper comes in handy. From it make hats, ties, feathers, eyes, spouts.

If the creation of decorative elements causes difficulties, use colored markers to create the image of the craft. You can buy ready-made eyes, umbrellas, bows and decorations, which are used for decorating cocktails.

Important! Applying any non-natural materials on the apple: glue, plasticine, markers, paints makes the handicraft inedible.

What crafts you can make with apples

Making crafts - an interesting and creative activity. Involve a child, it will bring him a lot of joy. Let your child do part of the work. Joining parts, decorating crafts quite able even kid.

Pay attention! Slices of apples quickly darken. This is due to the interaction of iron, contained in the fruit, with the air. For crafts longer retained an attractive appearance, you need to sprinkle lemon juice on the cuts.

Making an owl

Recall with your child what the owl looks like.

To make it, you will need 3 apples of the same color and size, 2 grapes or raisins, and toothpicks.

The body and wings of the owl

Put an apple wide side down. Cut a small rounded part of the apple. Obtained body - an apple with a flat part, which looks like a tummy. The same part is cut off from the other apple. Both remaining elements are attached to the apple from different sides, peeling out with toothpicks. Make the toothpicks deeper, so they are not visible on the wings. We have the wings.

Head

1. For the head take a new apple. Make a cut the same as for the tummy. Turn the apple a little bit, cut off the same part. On one side will be the connection of the slices, on the other - the whole part.
2. Another option. Two large circles are cut into the apple side by side. When determining the place of the cut, imagine that these are the eyes.
3. On the same head make ears. To do this, make incisions in the peel and bend them upward. The incisions should capture some of the pulp.
4. Eyes. Using part of a toothpick, fix small grapes or raisins in the center of the cut out circles.
5. Connect the head and torso with toothpicks. For durability, make the connection on 2 toothpicks.

Now you can make the decoration. You can make a wise owl with glasses and a book, or you can assemble a whole family of owls and owlets, picking up fruits of different sizes.

Cheerful caterpillar

The number of apples depends on how long the caterpillar will be. You can take 6 pieces of the same size or 8 - 10 and make a caterpillar with a bend. Beautiful caterpillar obtained by picking up the fruit on the principle of large to small, starting with a large apple and ending with a small apple.

Additionally

• carrots 1 pc;
• grapes 8-10 pcs;
• toothpicks;
• decorations for decoration.

For the craft it is better to take round varieties. Color will prompt the imagination. Before starting to work, you need to remove the stalks.

The largest apple is the head of the caterpillar. It is attached vertically to the other apple. Next, fix the apples horizontally one after another with toothpicks. We obtain a chain.

For stability we make the legs.

1. Cut carrots into equal circles, up to 1 cm thick. Count the number of legs by the apples, for each you need 2 legs.
2. Attach the legs to the caterpillar. In the carrot circles, closer to the edge, we stick half of a toothpick. The whole structure is fastened to the apple. You may have to look for a place to attach the feet for great stability.

On the head we make a tendril. Attach two toothpicks and thread the grapes along their entire length.

Eyes and mouth can be drawn with a marker or glued. Now decorate the caterpillar. You can make hair, hats, bows. Hang beads - a caterpillar lady. Make a cylinder of clay and fix it between the antennae, glue a paper butterfly or tie - you get a gallant gentleman.

If you place the creation on a beautiful stand, add natural material, you get a great exhibit for the exhibition in kindergarten or school.

Apple snowman

For the snowman, the "White Bulk" variety is well suited because of its light shade of rind. But you can take any other combination of colors.

Additionally

• peppercorns;
• carrots;
• toothpicks.

The handicraft can be made of 2 or 3 apples, the main thing is to choose the size in descending order.

At the largest apple is attached to the smaller apple. For stability, you can cut the base of the first one.

Cut carrots into 5 mm wide slices. Use the tip of a knife to cut out the shape of the mittens. Fix on a toothpick, fix it into an apple. Leave a distance between the mitten and the apple.

Decorate the snowman with peppercorns. They lay out the buttons on the apples, eyes and mouth. The nose - a triangle, cut out of carrots.

On the head you can place a piece of apple, in the form of a semicircular cap or a cylinder of carrots. You can leave the tail of the stalk, it will give the snowman a cheerful look.

Easy and fast: step by step master class

If there is no time to make a craft or there are doubts about the result, use simple options.

Funny hedgehog

We use 1 apple and 1 cranberry berry.

1. The fruit is cut in half, remove the core with seeds and stalk.
2. Place one part with the slice on a plate or lined plate.
3. Break a toothpick in half, poke it densely into the apple with the sharp end upwards.
4. From the second part of the cut out a small triangle for a muzzle. Attach a cranberry berry on the tip of the nose.
5. The muzzle is attached to the part with the needles. For beauty, you can put an autumn leaf on the needles. That's it!

Options for decorating hedgehog needles:

• String grapes of the same or different colors on toothpicks;
• Cut triangles or straws with a sharp tip out of apple pulp. Strengthen with toothpicks.

Ladybug

From 1 apple you get 2 ladybugs. Additionally - 7 grapes.

1. Cut the apple into halves, remove the seeds and stalks tails.
2. To imitate the wings, make an incision in the middle of each half, remove the skin.
3. Use the tip of a knife to make three indentations in the flesh on each side of the incision.
4. Cut 6 grapes in half, put the halves of the berries in the hollows, cut side down.
5. From the remaining berries make heads, fixing them on a toothpick.
6. We put them on a plate or a napkin. All done.

Creation of handicrafts from fruits and vegetables is fascinating and gives pleasure to both adults and children. Such activities develop children's imagination and fine motor skills. And for adults it can be the beginning of acquaintance with the art of creating edible beauty.

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