Broccoli Craft with Wine Corks

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Celebrate veggies with this adorable and easy broccoli craft with wine corks! With just a wine cork, felt, and pom poms, kids can create their own cute vegetable figurines—perfect for pretend play, decoration, or a fun learning activity. This simple craft sparks creativity and may even get kids excited to eat their veggies!

Four broccoli figurines together made from wine corks, green felt, pom poms and googly eyes.

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If you love kids veggie crafts, be sure to try our play food carrots, paper asparagus or DIY mushrooms crafts! These fun, food-inspired crafts are perfect for their play kitchen and can keep them entertained for hours with endless imaginative fun!

Why We Love this Broccoli Craft

An upcycled craft. Why toss wine corks when you can turn them into art? We love giving recyclables a new life with fun and creative projects!
Minimal mess. No paint involved here, just some basic cutting, gluing and coloring.
Simple supplies. Aside from the wine corks, you’ll only need 3 basic craft supplies (felt, pom poms and googly eyes) for this broccoli craft, and we have plenty of substitution options for each item.
Lots of play time. We’re all about play food crafts! Once kids make their broccoli vegetable figurines, they can jump right into imaginative play!

✂️ Supplies

Notes on key supplies are provided below. Please see the “how-to” card for a full list of supplies and quantities.

Wine corks– these form the body of your broccoli figurines!
Hot glue gun– TackyGlue should also work.
Felt– green and cut into 3×2 inch rectangles.
Pom Poms– green, medium or large, for the broccoli’s head.
Googly Eyes– if you don’t have these, you can also draw on the eyes with a marker.
Black Sharpie– to draw on your broccoli’s smile.

📋 Instructions

A wine cork wrapped in green felt on a wooden table.

Step 1: Wrap and glue green felt around your wine cork.

A green felt-wrapped wine cork with three green pom poms glued to the top.

Step 2: Glue on 3 pom poms to flat top side of wine cork for form your broccoli’s head.

A green wine cork with two google eyes glued on its front.

Step 3. Glue on two googly eyes to the front of your vegetable figurine.

A wine cork broccoli craft figurine with google eyes and hand-drawn smile.

Step 4: Use a Sharpie to draw your broccoli’s mouth below its eyes. Now time to play!

Four broccoli figurines on a white background and made from wine corks, green felt, pom poms and googly eyes.

✔️ Tips and Tricks

Use a strong glue. We’ve tried so many different kinds of glue and find that hot glue guns works best on felt and cork, or a strong craft glue like Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue.
To ensure the felt sticks to the cork, press down on the felt for a few moments while the hot glue sets.
Give younger kids a hand by handling the cutting and gluing—especially if you’re using a hot glue gun!
Complete the fun by adding play food carrots, paper asparagus and pop-up paper peppers to your kids’ veggie craft collection!

Felt wine cork figurines spread out on white table.

↪️ Variations and Substitutions

Wine corks-If you don’t have wine corks, try using recycled items like old marker caps, empty glue stick containers, thread spools, or lip balm tubes—all great alternatives with a similar shape and size!

Felt– No felt? No problem! Simply cover the wine cork in green construction paper or paint it green using Acrylic Paint (like we did with this honeybee wine cork craft), which dries quickly and adheres nicely to cork.

Glue– If you’d rather skip the hot glue gun, try Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue—we love it because it’s non-toxic and classroom-safe! Another great option is Elmer’s Craft Bond All Purpose Craft Glue.

Pom Poms-In place of pom poms, you can use cotton balls dipped in green paint or crumpled green tissue paper.

Google eyes– If you don’t have googly eyes, simply draw them on your broccoli craft with your Sharpie. You can also cut small circles from white paper or felt and add black dots in the center to create cute, easy eyes for your wine cork figurines.

❓FAQ

Where can I find wine corks?

You can find wine corks at craft stores and online, or try asking at restaurants, wine shops, and wineries. Some recycling centers even have them available for reuse!

What is the best way to clean wine corks?

We don’t usually clean our wine corks before crafting, but if yours are particularly grimy, you can clean them by gently wiping them with mild soap and water or a mix of water and white vinegar. Make sure wine corks are completely dry before crafting.

How do I keep my wine cork from tipping over?

If your vegetable figurine keeps tipping over, try trimming the uneven or bumpy part of the base to create a flat surface. This step should be done by an adult, not a child. Or, glue the bottom of your veggie figurine to a small square of cardboard for extra support.

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