DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Apple Crafts
(Johnny Appleseed Crafts)

Johnny Appleseed's birthday is on Sept 26th, 1774 and he died on March 11th, 1845.  His birth name was John Chapman.

National Apple Day is on October 21st and is mainly celebrated in the United Kingdom.  It occurs near the time for the harvest of apples.

	Apple Lacing Project preschoolers and up
	Apple Paper Plate Craft preschool and kindergarten
	Apple Pencil Holder Paper Mache Grade school and up
	Apple Pin or Magnet Styrofoam or Cardboard Grade school and up
	Apple Terra Cotta Pot Goody Container Grade school and up This is a great gift for teachers but it's also a good "Welcome to School" gift for an older sibling to give to a younger child!
	Awesome Apple Paper Craft preschoolers and up
	Fingerprint Apple Tree preschoolers and up
	Four Food Groups Paper Mobile (you could just use the first template for an "apples only" version) preschoolers and up
	Johnny Appleseed Toilet Paper Roll Craft preschool and kindergarten
	Scissor Skills Project preschoolers and up
	Shrinky Dink Patterns
	Stained Glass Crafts

Other Apple Ideas (suggestions from the discussion group):

Apple stamps are great.  If you cut an apple in half horizontally instead of vertically, it makes a nice stamp with a star shape in the center.  Use different sizes of apples (crab apples are really cute) and stamp on paper, fabric or picture frames.  We used this idea for the Aa simple alphabet template

Apple fridge magnet made from a frozen juice can lid.  The kids painted the lids red with acrylic paint
and then used tacky glue to attach felt (or fun foam) leaves and stem.  They glued on wiggly eyes and drew on a nose and mouth with black marker.  Then they put a magnet on the back for the fridge.

For a cute snack you can make apple mouths.  Unfortunately it uses peanut butter, but you could substitute marshmallow whip instead.  Slice two fairly thin wedges of apple.  Smear one side of each wedge with peanut butter.  Line marshmallows along one of the wedges (embedded in the peanut butter).  Put the other apple wedge on top to make a sandwich.  If you look at it face on, the skin of the apple looks like lips and the marshmallows look like teeth.