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Apple coffee filter craft

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Apple season is quickly approaching, which means it is a great time to do apple crafts with your kids. This is a simple apple coffee filter craft that results in some beautiful apple artwork through a process called chromatography.

My kids and I had previously done a coffee filter chromatography project. But on this occasion, I thought we would mix it up by trying the coffee filter chromatography craft again using an apple twist.

Note: For more kid-friendly apple activities, see my Apple Unit Study page. 

Apple coffee filter craft - use markers and a coffee filter to create these beautiful apple coffee filter crafts through the magic of chromatography #apples #handsonlearning #scienceandartcombined || Gift of Curiosity

To do this activity, each kid grabbed a tray with the following materials:

  • Coffee filter
  • Spray bottle filled with water
  • Apple-colored markers (we used red, green, and yellow)
Apple coffee filter craft - use markers and a coffee filter to create these beautiful apple coffee filter crafts through the magic of chromatography #apples #handsonlearning #scienceandartcombined || Gift of Curiosity

I then invited the kids to use their markers to color in their coffee filters. It is not necessary for kids to fill in every part of the filter for the craft to turn out beautifully, although of course adding more marker at this stage does make for a more colorful apple craft in the end.

Apple coffee filter craft - use markers and a coffee filter to create these beautiful apple coffee filter crafts through the magic of chromatography #apples #handsonlearning #scienceandartcombined || Gift of Curiosity

Once the kids were done adding color to their coffee filters, they used their spray bottles to get their coffee filters wet.

This part was quite magical for them due to chromatography. Chromatography is the separation of a mixture (e.g., marker ink) by passing it in a solution (e.g., water) through a medium (e.g., coffee filter) in which the components of the mixture (e.g., the various colors that make up any given marker color) move at different rates.

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In straight forward terms, what this means is that when the kids sprayed water on their coffee filters, the marker ink began to separate and spread throughout the entire coffee filter in a beautiful process.

Apple coffee filter craft - use markers and a coffee filter to create these beautiful apple coffee filter crafts through the magic of chromatography #apples #handsonlearning #scienceandartcombined || Gift of Curiosity

We left their coffee filters to dry overnight. Then we cut them to the shape of our apple outlines and taped them to the back for a beautiful finish.

Apple coffee filter craft - use markers and a coffee filter to create these beautiful apple coffee filter crafts through the magic of chromatography #apples #handsonlearning #scienceandartcombined || Gift of Curiosity

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Filed Under: Toddler, Arts and Crafts, Preschool, Fall, Kindergarten, Apples, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade

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6 Comments

  1. Samantha @ Stir the Wonder

    September 4, 2014 at 6:10 pm

    These turned out great! I’ll have to try with my son! Thanks for linking up at the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop! We hope you stop by again next week!

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  2. Keerti

    September 9, 2014 at 8:38 pm

    Came here by Tuesday tots. They look cute. My 3 year old will love this.

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  3. darla

    September 17, 2015 at 7:16 am

    My daycare kids would love these crafts

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  4. Alyssa

    October 5, 2016 at 11:52 am

    Very cute craft. I wanted to let you know that I am featuring this on simply creative moms.

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    • Katie SG

      October 5, 2016 at 1:29 pm

      Thank you!

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  5. Lisa A Gutheridge

    September 5, 2021 at 8:13 am

    So simple and cute! I made them with ladies I work with that are developmentally disabled and they turned out great! Thank you!

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