My kiddos and I love apples and pumpkins, especially when cool autumn weather rolls around. Help celebrate the Halloween holiday with your young child by making an adorable apple print pumpkin Jack-o-lantern craft using apples, paint, and markers.
Materials
- Apples
- Black construction paper
- Nontoxic orange and green paint
- Scrap cardboard
- Black marker
Instructions
- Cut an apple in half.
- Pour some orange paint on the scrap cardboard.
- Dip the apple slice in the orange paint.
- Press apple prints on the black construction paper.
- Allow the orange apple prints to dry completely.
- Draw Jack-o-lantern faces on the dried orange apple prints.
- Pour some green paint on the scrap cardboard.
- Press a fingerprint on top of each apple print pumpkin to form a stem.
- Display the apple print pumpkin Jack-o-lantern Halloween craft!
For more fun pumpkin crafts, check out my P Is for Pumpkin Paper Plate Craft, J Is for Jack-o-Lantern Handprint Craft, P Is for Pumpkin Handprint Craft, Origami Pumpkin Craft, Paint Chip Pumpkin Craft, Thumbprint Pumpkin Patch Craft, and Halloween Pumpkin Egg Carton Craft.
Image Credits
Apple Print Pumpkin Jack-o-Lantern Halloween Craft © 2017 Heather Johnson
Materials for Apple Print Pumpkin Jack-o-Lantern Halloween Craft © 2017 Heather Johnson
Orange Paint for Apple Print Pumpkin Jack-o-Lantern Halloween Craft © 2017 Heather Johnson
Dipping Apple Slice in Paint for the Apple Print Pumpkin Jack-o-Lantern Halloween Craft © 2017 Heather Johnson
Stamping Apple Prints for the Apple Print Pumpkin Jack-o-Lantern Halloween Craft © 2017 Heather Johnson
Drawing Faces on the Apple Print Pumpkin Jack-o-Lantern Halloween Craft © 2017 Heather Johnson
Adding Green Fingerprint Stems to the Apple Print Pumpkin Jack-o-Lantern Halloween Craft © 2017 Heather Johnson
Completed Apple Print Pumpkin Jack-o-Lantern Halloween Craft © 2017 Heather Johnson
Apple Print Pumpkin Jack-o-Lantern Halloween Craft by First Grader © 2017 Heather Johnson
Apple Print Pumpkin Jack-o-Lantern Halloween Craft by Preschooler © 2017 Heather Johnson
Finished Apple Print Pumpkin Jack-o-Lantern Halloween Crafts © 2017 Heather Johnson