Fall Craft's and Activities for Kids
How to Make Fall Crafts and Activities
Scarecrow
 What you will need: Paint stick or other stick, card stock (Heavy Paper), crayons or colored pencils, glue, yellow paper, and scissors.
How to Make a Fall Scarecrow:
1. Draw a picture of a scarecrow without a hat and straw on a piece of cardstock. (Patterns for this craft are available to members.)
2. Cut the scarecrow out and glue it to a paint stick.
3. Cut small pieces of yellow paper about the length of the bottom of its pants and arm sleeves and then cut slits in the paper to make it look like straw. Glue the pieces to the arms and legs as shown in the picture.
4. Cut two more pieces of yellow construction paper to make the hair and cut slits to make it look like straw. Glue the pieces to the head and then glue the hat on top.
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Happy Harvest Fall Bulletin Board Display
What you will need:
Bulletin Board Paper, Fall colors colored paper - brown, orange, yellow, and red, fall leaves, glue, stapler, and scissors.
How to Make a Fall Bulletin Board Display:
1. Cut brown construction paper into one-inch thick strips and staple them to your bulletin board to make a rustic looking fence. I cut the paper so that they were uneven to make the fence look old. You could also use white paper and make a picket fence.
2. Make a "Happy Harvest" Sign and print it out onto yellow paper and staple it to the top of the board. (Pattern available to members only.)
3. Cut pumpkin shapes from orange and brown paper and staple them to the board. (Pattern available to members only.)
4. You can also cut leaf and acorn shapes from different colors of paper or use silk fall leaves. (Pattern available to members only.)
5. To make the scarecrow use the pattern above. (Pattern available to members only.)
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Happy Harvest Picture
What you will need: Printer paper and crayons, markers, or colored pencils.
What to do:
1. Print out the pattern and have your children color it. (This pattern is available to members only.)
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Fall Poem Activity and Craft
 What you will need: Fall colors construction paper, scissors, whitepaper, crayons or colored pencils, and glue.
What to do:
1. Print out the patterns sheets and cut out the shapes. (Available to members only.)
2. In class have your children write a fall poem on the frame and glue onto the middle of a sheet of construction paper, and then glue the fall pictures around the sides of the paper.
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Reaping and Sowing Seed Identification Game
Children try to match the seeds to the appropriate plant.
Patterns to this game are available to members only.
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Basket Full of Leaves Paper Craft
 This is a fun and easy craft for all ages. This craft can be used in many ways:
1. Children can send notes written on the leaves to their friends. They can write one word on each leaf and see if their friends can put the leaves in order to find figure out the message.
2. Children can write their vocabulary, math facts, or spelling words on the leaves and use them to review.
3. They can use them on Thanksgiving, and write thankful things on the leaves.
For directions to this craft go to the Language Arts Page.
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Natural Wreaths
What you will need: Grapevine wreath, dried flowers, dried moss, grasses, berries, fruits or vegatables, hot melt glue gun, clear spray paint,and florist wire.
What to do:
1. Collect all the material you think you might use. (See Drying Flowers below.)
2. Glue clumps of moss all over the grape vine wreath with a hot melt glue gun. 3. Start with your biggest flowers first and glue them on in groups of three (if possible) evenly around the wreath. |
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Add a contrasting color and glue them on evenly around the wreath. Turn the wreath as you work looking at it from every angle.
5. Fill in the rest of the wreath with smaller flowers and grasses.
6. Attach a wire to the back to hand the wreath.
7. When you are all done and happy with the result spray the whole wreath from different angles with clear spray paint. This will help preserve the flowers and also make the colors more saturated.
8. If your wreath gets dusty, just take it down and stick it in the bath tub and spray it off using your shower head.
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Drying Flowers
There are many ways to dry flowers. My favorite is hanging them upside down in the shade on a dry day. I live in the desert so they dry very quickly. I can dry almost all flowers this way. The flowers in the wreath picture above were dried using the hanging method. I dried the leaves and all. The roses and statice are from a bouquet that I got on sale after Mother's Day.
When drying sun flowers and other delicate flowers you may lose some leaves, but if you save the petals you can glue them back on when the flowers are dry.
If you live in a moist climate, you probably won't be able to hang dry them, but you can use silica gel instead. The video to the right gives you an excellent short video great demonstration on how to use the gel.
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Leaves Poem Activity Sheet
 What you will need: printer paper, fun foam leaves, dried leaves, or leaf stamps, and glue.
What to do:
Print out the poem pattern (Available to members only) and make copies. Glue leaves around the poem to make a frame. You can buy fun foam leaves from Oriental Trading
How to dry leaves:
1. Collect fall leaves when they are dry.
2. Place the leaves in between layers of old newspapers and then place books or other heavy objects on top of the newspapers.
3. Wait about a week before removing the leaves.
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Candy
Corn Book
 Candy
Corn Stars
Written by Nancy Foss
"One
candy corn just for me.
Two candy corns make me smile with glee.
Three candy corns
of yellow, orange, and white.
What a colorful sight.
Four candy corns I hold in my hand to share.
Five candy corns
I place on my plate with care.
A star, a star of candy corns so sweet.
Thank you, God, for this special treat.
Directions
and patterns for this craft are available to members only.
You will also
find other crafts and activities to go along with this theme on the
members only section: a candy corn rhyme, math, and baking.
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Sweet
Treat Candy Corn Frame with Bible Verse
 The Bible verse in the frame is -- “How sweet are your words
to my taste; they are sweeter than honey.” (Psalms 119:103) Written
on the candy corn shapes are great tasting words for the
soul such as: peace, love, joy, forgiveness, faith, trust, etc.
Go
the the Candy Corn
Crafts and Activities Page for directions and a pattern.
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Fall
Acorn Craft
 "There's
power in the acorn and there's power in me.
Just like the tiny acorn that grows to be a tree,
Whose branches reach to heaven for all the world to see,
When I reach
up to thee, Lord, I'll become what I am supposed to be."
© Carolyn Warvel
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What you will
need: Brown and tan construction paper or card stock, brown yarn,
hole punch, Scotch tape, and glue.
What to do: Print out
the pattern for the acorn
tops 100 dpi or 72
dpi onto dark brown paper and acorn
bottoms 100 dpi or 72
dpi onto tan paper. If you would like your children to come
up with their own poem, you can use the blank
acorn bottom pattern or 72
dpi (no words).
1. Cut out the
patterns, punch hole where indicated.
2. Cut long lengths
of brown yarn and wind tape around on end.
3. Show your
children how to weave the yarn around the acorn top through the
holes. Tape the end of the yarn to the back of the acorn.
4. Glue the top
of the acorn to bottom of the acorn.
This
craft goes along with the book The Boy Who Dreamed of an Acorn by Leigh Casler, Illustrated by Shonto Begay, published by Penguin
Books, 345 Hudson, NY, 10014.
In this book a young Indian boy goes on a spirit quest to discover
what his gifts are. He wanted to dream a powerful dream of a bear
or mountain lion, but he only dreamed of a tiny acorn that seemed
to him to have no power at all. He went to a wise man who told him, "To each a different gift is given, and to each a different dream
does come. Be happy with with your dream." This story is about
how a boy learns to accept his gifts and learns that each gift has
a different kind of power. (This book is currently out of print, but
you may be able to find it in your library. If your library doesn't
have this book, ask them to place a request for this book. If the
publishing company gets enough requests, they just might put it back
into print.)
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Acorn Shape Book
 This little acorn shape book comes with a poem page and pages on which your children can write or draw about what they would like to be.
What you will need: Tan and brown construction paper, white paper, scissors, and crayons or markers.
What to do:
1. Print out the Acorn Pattern onto tan paper and the Acorn Cap Pattern onto brown paper. Cut out the patterns. In class have your children glue the cap to the acorn and then draw a face on the acorn.
2. Print out the Poem and Title Page onto white printer paper, make copies, and cut them out. Print out the Acorn Pattern onto white paper to make extra pages.
3. In class have your children read the poem and discuss it. Have them think about what they would like to be and draw pictures or write about it in their books.
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What I Can Be
Written by Carolyn Warvel
You may think I’m just a little acorn,
Living way up in this tree,
But I have a little secret,
I’m much more than you can see.
You only see my outside,
But there’s a glorious seed in me.
I have a lot of potential,
There’s much more that I can be.
Someday I’ll fall from here.
And grow to be a tree!
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Leaf
Wreath Craft
 What
you will need: Different colors of paper, tag board or poster
board, scissors.
What
to do:
1. Print
out the leaf
pattern. Use the leaf patterns to cut out leaves from different colors of
paper.
2. Cut
out the wreath base from tag board or poster board. Cut a
circle about 9" wide and then cut out a 4 3/4" circle from the inside
of the 9" circle.
3. Glue
on the different leaves around the circle to make a wreath.
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Comment from subscriber: I used the Leaf Wreath Craft idea
and pattern to make a special set of paper dishes with my class. In
the middle of the plate they wrote a Thanksgiving Prayer to read before
the meal. The first grade children were very exited and went wild
on thanking God.
Alessandra
Spray
Tie Dye
 Here's
another craft you can make using fall leaves. You will find the directions
for this craft on the Material
Craft Page.
Garden
Scarecrow
 What
you will need: Newspapers,
brown grocery bags, brown lunch bag, paper bowl, construction paper,
tape, glue, stapler, paint, and markers.
What
to do:
1.
To make the main stake, roll up 6 sheets of newspaper to make a tight
roll. Roll another sheet of newspaper around the roll and tape it closed.
For the arms, roll up 5 sheets of newspaper to make a tight roll. Roll
another sheet of paper around the roll and tape it closed. Glue or tape
the arms across the main stake to make a cross shape.
2.
To make the head stuff a brown lunch bag with crinkled up newspapers.
Place the top of the bag on the top of the main stake and gather it
around the stake. Tape it to the stake. Draw a face on the bag.
3.
To make the clothes. Open up some brown grocery bags and flatten
them. Place the scarecrow frame on the grocery bags. Draw around the
frame to make an outline of a shirt and pants. Draw the outline at least
3" from the edge of the frame. Cut out the shirt and pants shapes
and use them to trace another pattern for the back of the shirt and
pants. Paint a design on the shirt and pants and then glue or staple
the front and back shapes to each other onto the frame. Leave the arm
holes and leg holes open.
4.
To make the straw for the hands, feet, and hair. Fold
a piece of yellow construction paper in half lengthwise. Cut slits down
the short length of the folded paper, but do not go all way through
stop about 2" before you get to the fold. Roll the paper up and
crinkle up the cut paper slightly. Place some glue on the folded end
and shove them into the arms. Glue or staple some straw in the arm and
leg holes, and around the neck, and on the head.
5.
To make the hat, lay another grocery bag out flat on a table.
Place a paper bowl in the center of the bag. Trace around the edge of
the bowl and then draw a large circle around the bowl. Cut out the circle
and the inter circle. Glue the circle onto the hat. Paint the hat and
glue it to the head.
6.
To display your scarecrow, pound a stake into the ground and slide the
scarecrow on the stake.
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Count Your Many Blessing Coloring and Activity Sheet
 Children help the squirrel count his blessings and then think of ways they have been blessed.
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Ready-to-Assemble Crafts
Great
for Parties, Girl Scouts, and Boy Scouts, Sunday school and any kind
of get-together!
from Oriental
Trading Company
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