Fruit Basket

Create an easy paper fruit basket with a set of matching paper fruits.	Safety Tips Kids 8 years and younger should use child-safe scissors. Small craft materials such as beads are choking hazards. Not appropriate for use by children below the age of three.
Materials Poster paint or water color paint Paint brushes Construction paper Scissors Glue stick Pencil Various flavors of fruit juice powder (optional) Things to decorate your basket with: ribbon, stickers, small craft foam shapes, sequins, glitter glue, etc.

Steps

	1.	Draw and cut out different fruits on sketch paper or white construction paper. You may also print out this fruit template.
	2.	Prepare paint on your palette. Use the appropriate colors to match your fruits (red for apples, purple for grapes, etc.)
	3.	As an added sensory experience, you may add fruit juice powder to each color of paint. Paint with fruit juice powder will dry with a nice shiny slightly gritty finish, and a nice matching fruity smell!
	4.	Paint the fruits and set them aside to dry.
	5.	Print-out our basket template or draw your own basket on construction paper. Cut out the basket and prepare a piece of construction paper for the background.
	6.	Apply glue around the back of the basket, except along the basket's mouth.
	7.	Glue the basket onto the background paper. Remember that the basket's mouth shouldn't be glued on - we need to be able to slip in our fruits inside the basket.
	8.	Decorate the basket with whatever craft materials you have. Glitter glue, small craft shapes, stickers, sequins, paper cut-outs, ribbons, are just some of the things you can use.
	9.	Once the painted fruits are dry, slip them inside the basket.

More Ideas

Paper Basket

Instead of gluing the basket onto background paper, you can make a tote-along paper fruit basket!

See how this basket is made in our Paper Basket craft.

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