13 Easy Apple Crafts to Celebrate Fall
Apples are one of the season’s most charming symbols, simple, colorful, and full of crafting potential. From decorative displays to fun DIY projects, here are 20 easy apple craft ideas to make your fall feel extra cozy.
1. A Unique Apple Place Card
The humble apple is a perfect resource for various DIY projects. Apples are inexpensive, easy to come by and plentiful this time of the year. Here’s how you can use a bunch of them to make lovely place cards for a special dinner table.
You’ll only need one apple per person so you can focus on selecting only the best-looking ones. You’ll also need adhesive labels, a paint pen with an extra-fine tip, a few dried flowers, berries and assorted leaves and a hot glue gun. The end result is a beautiful apple-themed place card just like the one featured on Amy Latta Creations.
2. An Apple Inspired Fall Centerpiece
On a similar note, you can also use apples to make a fall-themed centerpiece for the dinner table. For the one featured on Amy Latta Creations three good-looking apples are enough.
The design also makes use of a small tray (this one is made of beautiful acacia wood), a few pine cones, cinnamon sticks for a nice spicy scent, berries and a bit of greenery like eucalyptus leaves for instance. Arrange everything on the tray to create a nice and simple display.
3. Apple Accent Piece
Here’s another lovely way to incorporate apples into beautiful table decor. This time the apples have a deep red color which helps them stand out more and contrast with the white of the candle and the green of the rosemary. They’re simply casually placed around the 1 and if you want to you can also use a tray of some sort.
It’s a very simple thing to do which requires very few resources. Moreover, the rosemary will add a lovely scent to the room. Check out this project on LilyArdor for more details.
4. Use Apples to Warm a Hearth
Using fresh seasonal apples to decorate the fireplace mantle can also look amazing. You can display a bunch of apples in a few different ways. For example, you could use some to fill up a small basket and you could have a few scattered around on the other side of the mantel.
You can also take a few apples and carve out little hearts into them and then position them at the center of your mantel display. All of this can be accompanied by other ornaments like flowers, greenery, candles and so on. Check out Haute and Healthy Living for more inspiration.
5. A Stylish Apple Bouquet
What great about apples is that they come in so many different sizes, colors and even different shapes. There’s a really nice variety of apples that you can use in your projects. In that sense, they’re quite similar to flowers which brings to a beautiful centerpiece that we saw on Design Improvised.
It reminded us a lovely bouquet of flowers. Big, small and medium-sized apples were used to fill up this pedestal bowl and then a few eucalyptus leaves were added into the empty spots between them.
6. Simple Fall Apple Candles
Apples can even be turned into candles. It’s a surprisingly easy thing to do and you can even complete this project with a few basic things that you have around the house. For instance, you can use a few wax crayons that the kids no longer use.
You’ll also need to carefully select a few apples that stand up straight and you’ll also need some paraffin wax with wicks, an empty can, a serrated knife or a grapefruit spoon and some apple spice or apple cider mix just to add a lovely autumn scent to the candles. You can find the instructions on Say Yes if you’re interested in the details.
7. An Apple and Pear Inspired Fall Centerpiece
Another super easy fall craft to do is fill a tray with apples and pears and create a fall centerpiece for the table. You can add a few more varieties of fruit if you want to but it would be nice to only use seasonal ones from your own region, otherwise, the centerpiece could end up looking exotic more than anything else.
Add eucalyptus leaves and branches to make a nice green bed for all the fruit to rest on. This is an idea featured on Julie Blanner and we find it very inspiring.
8. A Topiary Bouquet of Apples
How about a topiary centerpiece made with beautiful fresh apples? It would look like a bouquet with apples instead of flowers and you could have several of them on a large table. For the base you can use a bowl, vase, planter or any container that fits the design and you can fill the empty spaces between the apples with some greenery, whatever you can find in your area.
This design can also be made with various other seasonal fruit so feel free to experiment. Check out The Dodge Voice for more inspiring ideas like this one.
9. An Elegant Fall Apple Wreath
Here’s one more thing that you can make with apples: a wreath. Faux apples would be better suited for this project since they’ll need to be glued onto the wreath, plus they’ll last longer. Get yourself a bunch of apples, a styrofoam wreath form, some burlap cut into strips, a bit of moss and a hot glue gun and get to work.
Wrap the burlap around the wreath, then glue the apples on it one by one. At the end, fill in the gaps with moss. Additional details and instructions about this project can be found on The Wood Grain Cottage.
10. A Twig and Apple Fall Style Wreath
Of course, you don’t necessarily need to cover up the entire wreath with apples. If you’re using a grapevine wreath you can use only a few apples as decorations which you can add at the bottom, in a pocket made of twigs. There’s no need to glue the apples onto the wreath in this case which means you can easily swap them out with fresh ones when needed.
You can also add a few colorful leaves and even some seasonal flowers to make your apple wreath look extra pretty. Check out Stow and Tell U for more lovely ideas.
11. A Versatile Dried Fruit Apple Garland
Making your own apple garland is an easy, versatile project that you can enjoy for the entire fall season. All you need is some dried apple slices, yarn or twine, and an upholstery needle to have a beautiful apple display piece that you can use in any room of your home.
Once you have the apples down, feel free to add in other dried fruits to give your creation even more style. For a more in-depth look at the process, check out this how-to at Gardenista.
12. Homemade Apple Topiary Tree
Over at The Beehive Connection we see another stylish apple topiary idea. You can create a beautiful faux apple tree using skewers, or sturdy branches for a more realistic look, a small container, styrofoam, and a few apples. Just place your sticks into the styrofoam, then put it all into the container, and using some string or twine, tie your apples to the sticks.
Mix in some artificial leaves and grass to complete the look. Tie the apples loosely to the tree, and your family will be able to “pick” a healthy snack whenever they want!
13. Floating Apple Candles
Apple candles are a creative and beautiful fall craft, but Sincerely Marie Designs shows us how to take apple candles to the next level! A stylish metal tub filled with water and a few bobbing homemade apple candles creates the perfect fall ambiance. Depending on the size of your tub, you can make this stylish apple decor work inside or outside your home.