We’re glad that the days are finally cooling down and that means it’s time for both back-to-school and the fall season!!
What’s your favorite part of fall? We like the cooler weather, big piles of leaves, harvest festivals and apple picking! And then, of course, that apple picking leads to all kinds of yummy apple treats!
To celebrate those fall apples, we have have this fun Tissue Paper Plate Apple Craft!
This apple craft is easy to do and so much fun. For younger kids, you can help by cutting the tissue paper squares to get them started. All the kids, whether big or small, will have a blast dipping the tissue squares into glue and smooshing them onto the paper plate.
And while we specifically created the craft to celebrate fall, it also makes a fun teacher appreciation gift since we know apples are a traditional gift for teachers! (We suggest making it an extra-nice gift by taping a gift card on the back!)
If making apples as a classroom project, create a tree trunk out of brown construction paper and tape to the bottom of the wall. Add circles of green construction paper to the top of the trunk as leaves (or if you’re ambitious cut out leaf shapes.) Then decorate the top of the trunk with all of the apples to create your own student apple tree!
Chenille Stems/Pipe Cleaners, Green
Solid Color Tissue Sheets, RedElmer’s Liquid School GlueHole Punch Tool
Tissue Paper Plate Apple Craft
Supplies:
Small paper plate
Green pipe cleaner
Red tissue paper
Elmer’s glue (or any liquid glue will do)
A pencil
Hole punch
How to Make the Tissue Paper Apple:
1. Punch a hole in the top of your paper plate, slide a green pipe cleaner through. Twist and wrap the pipe cleaner around your pinky finger to create spirals.
2. Squeeze a little glue onto an extra paper plate.
3. Cut the tissue paper into lots of 2×2″ squares (or around that size, they don’t need to be perfect!)
4. Wrap one tissue paper square at a time around the eraser tip of the pencil.
5. Dab the bottom of the square in glue.
6. Press your pencil (with tissue attached) onto the apple paper plate.
7. Repeat steps 4-6 until the plate is filled with tissue.
8. Let your apple dry, and display proudly, because come on – How cute are these?!?!?
That is adorable! I used to teach preschool and loved coming up with new creative crafts for the kids to do.
Awww, this is such a cute craft. And the perfect time of year for it! I need to make these with my daughter!
This is such a sweet and adorable craft! Such a cute and easy to make present for a teacher for back to school.
This is the cutest idea! My son would love this.
We are just starting to teach the alphabet to my daughter and I like to use crafts and fun things specific to each letter. This is a great craft to kick things off with the “A.”
I pinned this so I can share it with my kids and they can share with their church group. They make things to cheer up people in nursing homes and also for gifts for them at Christmas.Thanks so much for sharing this.
The end result is pretty cool looking. Would be a great Sunday project for my little niece.
This looks really good without being overly complicated. A cute idea to do with the kids.
This is such a cute craft to do with kids. It looks like a lot of fun.
This is just adorable! My daughter loves when we do crafts and she would have fun doing this with me!
What a cute and fun idea!
This looks so much fun and easy to make with my son. Thanks for sharing!
This is really cool! I have to try this with my 7 year old.
This is so cute and fun. I will have to make this with my granddaughter.
This looks like a really cute and easy craft to do with my children!
This is a great craft for my daughter, as her pre-school teacher wants me to work on her to crinkle paper to help her fine motor skills.
This is really cute!
What a fun craft for kids. This is super cute!
So pretty. Love the red! Crafts that are simple and beautiful are the best.
Oh this looks like such a fun craft we can do at home! We love doing things like this in the fall after dinner! Fun time!
This looks like a fun and cute fall craft for any age.
I love the idea of an apple tree for a classroom. my grandma is a preschool teacher and is always looking for classroom design ideas.