1, material: an apple, a kitchen knife, small blades, grapes, strawberries, blueberries and other fruits.
2. Prepare an apple: Choose a larger apple to ensure that it can support the animal's body and head. Wash the apples and dry them.
3, making a figure: put the apple in your hand and flatten one side of the apple with a kitchen knife to make it stand firm. The size of this plane depends on the size of the animal.
4. Making the head: Select the other side of the apple and cut out a slightly flat circle as the animal's head. You can leave a depression in the center of the head as an animal's mouth.
5, production details: use a small blade to carve animal details on the apple, such as eyes, ears, nose and so on. Fruits of different colors can be used as animals' eyes and noses to increase the three-dimensional sense and color.
6, add decoration: you can add some grapes, strawberries, blueberries and other fruits to the apple as decoration to make the animals more vivid and lovely.
7. Finish making: put the made fruit animals on the plate and let them stand. Now, your fruit and animal crafts are finished!
The advantages of doing manual work:
1. Improve creativity: Handmade works need to exert creativity and create interesting works through hands-on practice. In this process, people's creativity and imagination can be stimulated, and people can better explore their potential.
2, enhance patience and concentration: it takes patience and concentration to do manual work, especially some complex handicrafts. In the production process, it takes time and energy to complete every detail, which can help people improve their patience and concentration.
3. Relieve stress and relax: Handmade is a relaxing activity. In the production process, people can turn their attention to manual production, thus transferring pressure and anxiety and making people feel relaxed and happy.
4, enhance hands-on ability: Doing manual work requires hands-on operation, which can make people better exercise hand muscles and coordination ability. Through constant practice and trial, you can gradually improve your hands-on ability and skills.
5. Cultivate self-confidence: By hand-making, you can complete some challenging works, thus enhancing your self-confidence. When you finish a complicated handicraft, you will feel proud and satisfied, which is also a sign of your self-confidence improvement.