Let’s gather our craft supplies and make an apple tree craft for fall!
This fun apple tree craft is perfect for preschoolers and is made out of construction paper, tissue paper, and craft sticks.
This is a great fine motor skills activity for fall with the kids using a pencil and scissors, and then tearing tissue paper and scrunching it into a ball. Talk to them about the different colors of apples too.
How to make a paper apple tree
I made a similar craft to this with the students recently, only I used pre-cut green circles for the tree. In hindsight though I wish I’d let them draw their own circle on the paper and then cut it out. So this is what we are going to do here, then we’ll scrunch the tissue paper ‘apples’ and glue them onto the tree.
Related: Make this paper plate apple tree with pom pom apples
Supplies needed to make our apple tree craft
- Green construction paper
- Tissue paper – in assorted ‘apple’ colors
- Popsicle sticks
- Glue stick
- Scissors
- Pencil
Instructions for making our paper apple trees
Step 1
Have the kids freehand circles onto the construction paper with a pencil. The best part of this craft is that the circle doesn’t need to be perfect, and every circle will be a little bit different, just like an apple tree.
Using the scissors have them cut out their circle.
Step 2
Tear pieces of tissue paper in the colors of apples. These don’t have to be perfect, but try to keep them under about 2 inches in size.
Step 3
Take each piece of torn tissue paper and scrunch it into a ball. Glue the tissue paper ball onto the construction paper tree using the glue stick.
Step 4
Using your glue stick, attach a popsicle stick trunk onto the back of your construction paper apple tree.
Our finished paper apple tree
What other tissue paper ‘apple’ colors can you use on your tree?
Prep Time
5 minutes
Active Time
20 minutes
Total Time
25 minutes
Difficulty
easy
Estimated Cost
$1
Materials
- Green construction paper
- Tissue paper – in assorted ‘apple’ colors
- Popsicle sticks
Tools
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Glue stick
Instructions
- Draw a circle on the green construction paper, it doesn’t need to be perfect.
- Cut out the circle.
- Tear small pieces of tissue paper in the color of apples.
- Scrunch the tissue paper into balls and glue it onto the circle.
- Attach a popsicle stick ‘trunk’ onto your tree.
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Have you made our construction paper apple tree? What color tissue paper apples did the kids put on theirs?
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