How to Make a Fruit of the Spirit Craft
This fruit of the Spirit craft is a super cute Bible craft, perfect for Sunday school and VBS. Use our printable fruit templates and simple craft supplies to make your own fruit basket with the labeled fruit of the Holy Spirit.
Yield: 1 fruit of the spirit craft
Cost: $1
Equipment
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Colour the fruit templates
- Print our fruit of the Spirit templates on white paper or cardstock. You can find the download link in the materials list with more details below the tutorial.
- Colour the word inside of the fruit. You can use one colour for all the fruit names (we used black), or personalize it for each fruit.
- Then colour the details of the fruit. We used crayon for ours, but colored pencils or markers will also work.
- Then cut out the fruit carefully, getting as close to the outline as possible.
- Repeat, colouring all of the fruit. We've included 2 fruit options for "Joy", so you can choose your favourite.
Step 3: Cut and paint paper plates
- To make the fruit basket we're using 2 uncoated paper plates -- the kind with a fluted edge that curves up.
- Cut one of the paper plates in half. These will form the sides of the basket.
- Paint the bottom of the plate halves with brown acrylic paint.
- Once the paint is dry (it should happen fairly quickly), flip the plate halves over and paint down a couple of inches from the flat edge.This will ensure that you don't see any unpainted parts of the fruit basket.
- Cut off the fluted rim from another plate. Then remove about 1/3, leaving the longer section to be the basket handle.
- Paint both sides of the handle brown as well.
Step 4: Put the fruit basket together
- Add a bit of hot glue to the top inside corner of one basket half.(Tacky glue will also work.)
- Place one end of the handle into the glue. Then repeat on the other side.
- Add a line of hot glue around the curved outside of the basket half.
- Then connect the other half of the basket into the glue, lining up the edges carefully.You can do this a bit at a time to make it easier, if you'd like.
Step 5: Place the fruit in the basket
- Set the fruit into the paper plate basket. You can place them fully inside or set them partially in so you can read the fruit names.
- Your fruit of the Spirit craft is complete!
Notes
Looking for more fruit crafts? Here's a few of our favourites:
Pom Pom Fruit
Fruit and Vegetable Painted Rocks
Perler Bead Fruit