How To Make Fall Yarn Apples

How To Make Fall Yarn Apples

This easy craft will yield a harvest of yarn apples in no time!

Materials

• Red and light green yarn, 3 feet for each apple
• Brown and dark green pipe cleaners
• Wire cutters (or good scissors to cut pipe cleaners)
• Scissors
• Cardboard

Preparation:

Cut pieces of cardboard 2 x 5 inches

Bend each piece in half lengthwise, then open it again, so it is almost flat again.

Instructions

• Start wrapping the red yard around the cardboard. Try to go around 100 times, though 80 times will do.

• Cut a brown pipe cleaner in half and slip one end of one half through the winded up yarn along the fold of the cardboard. Twist it around and flatten it. This will actually be the bottom of the apple.

• Take the other half of the brown pipe cleaner and slip it through the yarn at the opposite end, and this time shape it to create a stem.

• Slide the cardboard out so that you now have a nice, round apple.

• Take a small piece of green pipe cleaner and wrap it around the stem to create a leaf.

• Repeat to create your fall harvest of green and red apples!

Mary Kate Warner

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