Need a quick and easy project for the little ones during Thanksgiving down times? This project from Make and Take's blog is just for you! (We are totally making these for us and we don't have kids, so that's fine, too!)
Supplies for Yarn Apples:
- craft yarn – red, green, or yellow (the cheap yarn will do, $2 a skein)
- pipe cleaners (or chenille stems) – brown and green
- piece of cardboard – 2 in x 5 in
First find a piece of cardboard to help you with the winding. I tore
off a piece from a box we had lying around. If you want a smaller apple,
use a piece of cardboard that is 2 inches thick. Or if you want it a
little larger, go 3 inches. I also bend my piece of cardboard in half a
bit, just so it’s easier to take the yarn off when it’s done being
wrapped.
Take your yarn color of choice and start wrapping it around your
cardboard. We did ours almost 100 times around, so keep on winding!!
Although I did wrap one apple only 80 times, and it looked just as good.
The more you wrap, the thicker and tighter the apple looks. When you’re
done winding, then just cut your string off, letting it hang in place.
It will get tucked away later.
Cut your brown piece of pipe cleaner in half and slip one through
your winded up yarn. This is where the bent in half card board piece
comes in handy. If your cardboard is bent, it’s easier to slip the pipe
cleaner through. Then twist up the end together, forming a stem for the
top of the apple.
You now put the other cut half brown pipe cleaner through again and
twist it up on the opposite end of the yarn, creating the round apple
and looking like the little bottom end of an apple. Twist it up a ways,
then cut off the pipe cleaner with scissors fairly close to the yarn and
bend that end of wire in.
You can be done here or add a little leaf to the apple. With a 2 inch
piece of green pipe cleaner, slip it under the top brown stem. Then
bend in each half to look like 2 little leaves.
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