Arty Yarn Wrapped Fruit for Preschoolers
A big welcome to the creative Colourful Minds here today with a wonderful little book and craft activity you can do all year around!! If you love the Would You Like a Banana? Storybook or are looking for some fun tutti fruit and/ or banana crafts.. ready on! Your preschoolers AND kids will love this activity! Let’s make some Yarn Wrapped Fruit Art!
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About Laura from Colourful Minds
Colourful Minds is an arts organisation that designs and leads creative workshops for all ages in Bristol and beyond. Founded in 2016 by Laura, Colourful Minds focuses on bringing people together through art and craft, encouraging creativity, connection, and exploration. Our workshops allow room for minds and hands to take ideas in any direction, with an emphasis on making together and enjoying the creative process.
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Supplies needed for this Summer Fun Yarn Wrapped Activity:
- recycled cardboard or old cereal box
- Paints in desired colours (think yellows for the banana, reds and greens for the apples etc)
- Pencils and scissors for cutting shapes
- A little sticky tape
- Yarns in a variety of colours (great for using up yarn scraps)
- For optional extras: googly eyes – they are so fun! Though you can draw and cut out your own googly eyes too – making it more economical and eco friendly!
- OPTIONAL: explore print making with things like bubble wrap or kitchen utensils
Your free original Banana Printable here created especially for you by Colourful Minds!! That said, I couldn’t resist whipping up a set of 8 tutti fruitty outlines for you to use (should you wish to use them of course!! Handdrawn is so much more fun). This set includes an apple, a pineapple, an orange + satsuma, a strawberry, an open banana, a watermelon, a lemon and a pear. Simply add $0 at check out!
Would you like a Banana?
Needless to say, we love a good “story and craft”, session, so do check out the Would You Like A Banana? Story book first! It is so darn cute!
How to make your Yarn Wrapped Fruit
Either draw a rough outline of the fruit (banana!!) you would like to make. OR grab the free templates shared above, print, cut and glue the template to a piece of cardboard or an old cereal box and cut out.
Have fun with paints. Get the kids to paint the cardboard in the desired fruity shapes. The bananas are obviously great in yellow, with a little brown. Apples can be red and greens or a mixture of both, pright yellow pineapples and watermelons are lots of fun to paint too!
You can see here that we also had fun exploring print making with bubble wrap! What else do you have to hand that you could print with?
Once fully painted, leave to dry.
Tape a piece of wool or yarn to the back (or wrap it onces and tie), then enjoy the yarn wrapping experience. Wind around, then tape to secure at the back again. With super “round” fruit, you may find it helpful to cut some small notches into the side of the card to help secure the yarn and so that it doesn’t slide off!
Stick on your homemade googly eyes. And finished!
Why not try making other fruit? What’s your favourite?
Aren’t they wonderful! Don’t forget to follow Colourful Minds on Instagram and Eventbrite!
If you enjoyed this craft, why not check out our Summer Fruits Pen Pots (quick and easy and oh so cute) as well as more Summer Activities for Preschoolers here:
