Fall is upon us and that means…apple season! Â Picking apples, baking apples, and biting into the juiciest, crunchiest apples is probably the most wonderful experience to usher in the start of fall!
Some of my most favorite memories from childhood are the smell of Grandma’s apple pie baking in the oven, beautiful fall leaves all around and the cooler temperatures on the horizon.  Can anybody else relate to this?
The beginning of fall and apple season is the perfect opportunity for crafting with the little ones! Â Who doesn’t love an easy, do-it-yourself craft?
This DIY Apple Stamp Craft for Kids is sure to be a hit with your children and/or grandchildren. Â It’s creative, simple and so much fun!
With just a toilet paper roll, some tape, a few painting supplies and you’ll be on your way to making wonderful apple season memories with your loved ones!
Supplies:Â
- Empty toilet paper roll
- Tape
- Red, green and brown washable paints
- Paint brushes
- Construction paper
Apple Stamping fun!
Step #1
Take your empty toilet paper roll and a long piece of scotch tape and gently push in the center of the toilet paper roll and wrap the tape around it securing it’s new apple shape. Â {Honestly, I think it more resembles a heart and that’s perfect if yours does because you will turn in into an apple with the next few steps!}
Step #2
Dab the end of your toilet paper roll into a generous amount of red washable paint and then stamp away like this…
In this picture below you can see how we taped our toilet paper roll into an apple shape.
Step #3
Using a paint brush and red paint, finish filling in your apple to complete your apple shape.
Step #4
I love this step! Â My kids decided that we shouldn’t paint a boring ol’ leaf on their apple but rather they wanted to use their thumb print as their green leaf and I said…sure! Â Dip just the tip of the thumb into green paint and create a thumb print leaf at the top of each apple.
Step #5
For the final step to this fun, DIY Apple Stamp Craft for Kids, is to make the stem.  Use a thin paint brush dipped in brown paint to make the stem of your apple.  {We even considered gluing a tiny stick from outside for our apple stems…wouldn’t that be a cool added touch?}
Here are some extension activities to fuel your creativity! Â My kids created apples with “Back to School” signs, and apples falling from trees. Â Lastly I thought it was so neat when my oldest son said, “Wouldn’t it be cool if there was such a thing as a volcano that exploded apples out of it?!” Â Hence the apple volcano…
Written by About a Mom contributor, Mandy Mae. Mandy is a wife, mother, teacher, and frugal-DIY-enthusiast. Hoping to inspire mothers to take action in making a positive influence in the lives of their children with simple DIY, crafting, thrifting, and teaching projects. You can see more from Mandy Mae on her blog MissMaesDays.com.
Fun idea! great for this time of year. I bet my daughter would love to give this a try
Thank you! Enjoy! I think your daughter will have fun 😉
I’m definitely excited for the apples this season. I love the creative designs you made using the DIY stamp!
Thank you, Liz! We had a wonderful time and I’m always impressed with how creative my kids are! They come up with unique things I’ve never thought of 😉
What a simple craft and easy to do but oh so pretty. I would love to hang a few of these in my home. I don’t have any little ones anymore but this would be fun to do with my little niece.
These stampers are so cute and creative. They are perfect for doing crafts with the kids this fall.
Fun and easy My kids would lke to do this one too. What kid doesn’t like stamps? 🙂
This is really cute! I’d like to do this with paint you can use on fabric, and use it to make a pillow or two!