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, Paper Plate Pumpkin Puzzles, Paper Plate Pumpkin, 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
