Apple Stamping Craft Tutorial for Kids

This Apple Stamping Craft is a fun way to make art with apples!

This apple stamping craft looks amazing, but it is so easy and inexpensive to make. Younger children will need help with the cutting and gluing, but stamping apples is fun for all ages. It is a great craft if you are working on the letter “A” with your preschooler. You can talk about the “A” sound in apple while painting with apples.

This apple stamping craft would also be a great fall art project to do with your kids that could turn into a favorite fall decoration.

Apple Stamping Craft

Materials:

brown construction paper
white construction paper
white glue or glue stick
scissors
green paint
red paint
2 foam brushes
2 paper plates
2 apples, cut in half
apple seeds, reserved from cut apples
markers (optional)

Directions:

1. Use scissors to cut a piece of construction paper in half.

2. Cut one half sheet of paper into long strips. Cut one half sheet of paper into short strips.

Lay one long strip on a flat surface and place the short strips in the opposite direction, overlapping and gluing the pieces together.

Apple Stamping Craft- glue short strips to long strip

3. Use long strips to weave the basket and glue the ends.

Apple Stamping Craft- overlap and glue paper strips together

4. Finish the basket with one long piece of paper, on the top and secure with glue. Trim the sides of the basket and round the corners on the bottom of the basket.