Projects for Apple Decorations

Wall Decorations

• Add apples to your walls with stencils and paint, paint stamps, wallpaper borders or vinyl wall decals. You can use an apple, cut in half from top to bottom, to stamp apple shapes on the wall. Use red, green or yellow interior latex paint to fit the natural apple colors. Dip the inside of the apple, exposed by the cut, into one of these paint colors and press onto the wall. To use stencils, paint one of the same paint colors into the inside of a painting stencil several times over the wall. Use a wallpaper border or vinyl decals featuring apples in place of paint if you want a more realistic look.

Hanging Art

• Make use of your artistic skills, such as drawing, painting, cross-stitch or photography, to make apple art for your room. Take artistic photos of several apples and closeups of a single apple. If you have drawing or painting skills, pick up a blank canvas at a craft supply store and create your own still life apple painting.

Stitching Projects

• Sew your own apple decor curtains to cover the windows in your room. Use apple-themed fabric to create curtains with a sewing pattern, or just upgrade basic curtains with cross-stitched or embroidered apples. Do this for tablecloths, tea towel calendars and linen napkins. Frame a cross-stitched or embroidered apple to hang on a wall or decorate a shelf. If you are decorating a living room or bedroom, make your own pillows with apple-themed fabric or stitch apples onto them with an embroidery or cross-stitch technique before assembling them.

Sculpture

• Create apple forms with earthenware clay, polymer clay, wire or papier-mache. Use the finished apple sculptures to display on tables, windowsills and shelves, or in baskets or bowls. If you are using earthenware clay, you will need the use of a kiln at a local art studio or pottery shop to bake the sculpture and cure the colored glaze onto it. You can bake polymer clay in your oven at home, and it comes in several colors, including the natural colors of apples. If you choose to make papier-mache apples, you can use any round object, like a balloon or polystyrene ball, and build up the layers of papier-mache to sculpt an apple shape. Paint papier-mache apples with acrylic paint in any color you like.