This Tissue Paper Plate Apple Craft is a fun way to celebrate fall with your kids! It’s also great for teacher appreciation week or back-to-school!
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!
For another fun apple craft you can make these Melted Bead Suncatchers to make a pretty apple to hang in the window.
Chenille Stems/Pipe Cleaners, Green
Solid Color Tissue Sheets, RedElmer’s Liquid School GlueHole Punch Tool
Supplies Needed
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
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?!?!?
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Diane Hoffmaster says
That is adorable! I used to teach preschool and loved coming up with new creative crafts for the kids to do.
Mistee Dawn says
Awww, this is such a cute craft. And the perfect time of year for it! I need to make these with my daughter!
SUSAN says
This is such a sweet and adorable craft! Such a cute and easy to make present for a teacher for back to school.
Gena says
This is the cutest idea! My son would love this.
Desiree Lopez says
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.”
James Robert says
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.
Shane A says
The end result is pretty cool looking. Would be a great Sunday project for my little niece.
Sarah Mathias says
This looks really good without being overly complicated. A cute idea to do with the kids.
Becky Kinard says
This is such a cute craft to do with kids. It looks like a lot of fun.
Julie Wood says
This is just adorable! My daughter loves when we do crafts and she would have fun doing this with me!
shelly peterson says
What a cute and fun idea!
Nidhi Chauhan says
This looks so much fun and easy to make with my son. Thanks for sharing!
Shayna Burns says
This is really cool! I have to try this with my 7 year old.
Kathy Pease says
This is so cute and fun. I will have to make this with my granddaughter.
Dandi D says
This looks like a really cute and easy craft to do with my children!
Amy D says
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.
Alyssa Annico says
This is really cute!
Dana Rodriguez says
What a fun craft for kids. This is super cute!
Darla says
So pretty. Love the red! Crafts that are simple and beautiful are the best.
Laurajj says
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!