I like the way the bright blue looks with the red, yellow and green of the apple.īoth my daughter and I fell in love with paper quilling with this apple craft! I love the bright colors of the apple and the cool designs that the paper quills make. I glued my daughter’s apple craft onto some blue cardstock to finish it off. Continue to glue all of the paper quills down, adding more if needed.ĩ. You can use a paintbrush to apply the glue or my daughter found it easier to just dip the quills into the glue. When you have made your different shapes of quills in red, green and yellow, place them into the apple and play around with the arrangement until you like how it looks.Ĩ. I can see how paper quilling could be a relaxing and destressing craft for both kids and adults!ħ. My daughter loved making the different shapes, she made quite a pile in a short amount of time. Related: Autumn Sunflower Craft with Oil Pastels Try pinching both ends, pinching one end and just leaving it as a coil shape. From there, kids can create a few different shapes.
Take your chopstick, pencil or paintbrush (a chopstick seemed to work the best for us) and wrap a strip of paper around it. Glue the edge and shape it as you glue it down. Take a piece of green paper to create your leaf. Take a strip of brown paper and fold both ends to meet in the middle, then fold it in half like the picture above. Related: Cookie Cutter Process Art Made into Fall PlacematsĤ. Do the same with the second piece, making sure that the pieces join up like in the picture above. Take a paintbrush and paint the edge of your cardstock with glue, placing it down and shaping it into a half circle.
I cut our red cardstock into 2 pieces of 8 1/4 inches. Trim your white cardstock, I cut ours down a bit and then trimmed it to 7 1/4 inched x 8 inches when my daughter was finished.ģ. You can use a paper cutter to make this faster and easier but if you don’t have one then you can always eyeball it and use scissors.Ģ. First, cut your paper strips out of cardstock. Cardstock in red, green, yellow, brown, and whiteġ.White glue, glue dish (we used a plastic lid) and paintbrush.Chopstick, pencil or paintbrush to use as a quilling tool.If you would like more information please review my privacy & disclosure policy. This post contains affiliate links, which come at no cost to you. Add in some glue and that’s really all you need! Make your own paper quilling apple craft Just a chopstick to use as a quilling tool and cut up cardstock that I cut on my paper cutter. We didn’t use any special tools or paper for this project, so it is a great beginner paper quilling craft and great for kids.
This project was easy enough for her to do all on her own, she is thrilled with how her apple turned out and wants to hang her picture up in her room. My 8-year-old daughter also loved it, she loved making the different shapes of quills and putting it all together. Using a faux pumpkin ensures you can display your crafty kitties year after year - just store them somewhere relatively cool to prevent the hot glue from melting.Paper quilling just might be my new favorite craft! I’ve been wanting to try it out for a while and this fall-themed apple craft made a great beginner project. Cut three pipe cleaners in half and use hot glue to attach them to the pumpkin under the edges of the felt nose. Apply a dab of hot glue to the center of the nose only and secure it to the pumpkin just below the eyes. To create a nose, use a black marker to draw an arch on one corner of a felt sheet, then cut along the marked line. Next, create and attach the nose and whiskers. Use a white paint pen to draw on angled cat eyes then fill them in using the paint pen or a small paintbrush and white craft paint.ģ. Apply a dab of hot glue to ear tabs’ back side then insert them into the ear slots. Use a kitchen knife to cut a small slot in the top of the pumpkin to fit the ears. Time to create the ears and eyes! Use scissors to cut two arrow-shaped ears out of a piece of black craft foam. Cover pumpkins with three coats of black exterior paint, allowing paint to dry fully between coats.Ģ. Faux pumpkins of various sizes and shapesġ1.