I keep thinking of crafts that I can share with our children when they get older, and since the High Holidays are coming up, I was thinking of little things for Rosh Hashanah – like little Sculpey apples (it’s traditional to eat apples dipped in honey for the holiday, to symbolize that the upcoming year will be sweet). I didn’t have a lot of light Sculpey so these turned out smaller than I intended, but the idea works and I was able to make these into magnets and thumbtacks – so…
Materials:
Red Sculpey
White Sculpey
Black Sculpey
Brown Sculpey
Leaf Green Sculpey
magnets, thumbtacks, or both
hot glue gun
Ultra-fine Sharpey marker if you want to write the Hebrew year on them for R/H
tools that are nice to have: pasta roller, acrylic roller, Sculpey cutting blade, stylus tool for making ‘seeds’
Preheat the oven to 275*.
First I rolled out the white Sculpey into two long tubes (they’re also called ‘snakes’ in Sculpey-speak) then pushed them together and tried to shape them overall into an overall apple shape:
…rolled out a long sheet of red for the apple skin, and covered the white with that, then used the cutting blade to make apple slices:
…rolled out a sheet of black Sculpey for apple seeds, and just used the stylus to pick up a tiny bit:
…then placed that right on the apple slice (I used this same method for watermelons and it works great):
Next, roll out a tiny-tiny brown snake for the apple stem, cut those into pieces; roll out a sheet of green for the leaves, pinch off a bit and make into a leaf shape; use the cutting blade to make a cut into the top of the apple slice and put both those in, then mash a bit so they connect well:
On a parchment-lined cookie sheet, bake these at 275* for 15-18 minutes – you’ll have a ton of these
Just hot-glue a magnet on the back, or thumbtack. All done! When I make these again I’m going to work harder at making the overall apple shape more…apple-y…but overall they turned out pretty cute!
A set of these might make a nice present for a teacher for the holidays, or just for everyday use, or…