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Yarn Apple Tree Craft

Sep 6, 20165,089 views
Crafts
Ages3–6 yrs
Prep20 min
Activity30 min
Leveleasy
MessMedium
Works for1:1 · Small group · Class

Snip red or yellow yarn, coil it around a finger into little apples, and glue them onto a painted green coffee-filter treetop with a craft-stick trunk. A simple fine-motor and scissor-skills craft for an apple theme.

⚠️ Safety first

  • Supervise scissor use, especially with younger preschoolers.
  • Keep loose yarn pieces and yarn balls away from children who still mouth things, and supervise at all times.

Before the kids arrive

  • Flatten coffee filters into circles, paint them green with washable paint and let them dry. See the watercolor apple trees post for the process.

Steps

  1. Set out the dry green coffee filter along with red and yellow yarn.

  2. Snip the yarn into smaller bits with scissors.

  3. Hold one end of a yarn piece and twist it around your finger to start forming a circle.

  4. Keep coiling to make lots of little yarn apples. They don't need to be perfect.

  5. Squeeze a small circle of glue onto the green coffee filter.

  6. Press a yarn apple onto the glue. Repeat until your tree is full of apples.

  7. Draw a few leaves on the treetop.

  8. Glue a craft stick on for a trunk and glue your tree onto the construction paper.

Tips

  • It was a great fine motor activity that helped with developing scissor skills.from the author
  • Show kids how to hold one end of the yarn and twist it around a finger. After a couple of tries both of ours got it and were yarn apple making machines!from the author
  • These little yarn circles are just a representation of the apples, so we didn't focus too much on perfection.from the author
  • There is always time for goofing off with the yarn bundles!from the author

Make it your own

  • Make red-apple trees and yellow-apple trees.
  • Color the coffee filters with watercolors instead of paint, as in the author's watercolor apple trees.

The story behind it

By TurkeyMom · September 2016
materials for apple crafts
We flattened coffee filters into circles, painted them with washable paint and had them dried. Once the green colored coffee filter is dry, set it out along with colored yarn.
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Yarn Apple Tree Craft: the original post

Using simple craft supplies create these cute yarn apple trees. Great for preschoolers. Since we are in full blown apple season, we have another apple crafts for kids that you and your family can try. Take a look at all of our apple crafts we have done so far. This apple craft for kids was one of those crafts we did on a whim Materials

We used coffee filters and flattened to a circle and painted with washable paint and had them dried. Take a look at our watercolor apple trees to see the process in action. Use **Washable Kids Paint**instead of watercolors. Once the green colored coffee filter is dry, set it out along with colored yarn. We love yarn and the kids enjoyed their sticky yarn learning activity and sticky fall tree activity we shared earlier.

materials for apple crafts

It was a great fine motor activity that helped with developing her scissor skills. She snipped the yellow and red yarn into smaller bits.

cutting yarn for apple tree craft

Then I showed her to hold one end of the yarn and start twisting around her finger to start forming circles.

twisting to create yarn apples

After a couple of tries both the kids got it and were yarn apple making machines. ha!

making yarn apples

Since these little yarn circles are just representation of the apples we didn’t focus too much on perfection.

yellow yarn apple craft

Once the “apples” were created they glued them to the green coffee filter papers.

gluing yarn apples for apple crafts

apple crafts gluging yarn apples

There is always time for goofing off with the yarn bundles!

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Added a few leaves and glue a craft stick for a trunk to finish off the apple craft.

finished apple craft

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