Fall Crafts for Kids

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Teaching Children Through Crafts and Activities

Welcome to Danielle's Place where you will find thousands of free crafts for kids designed to make learning fun.
Many of the crafts and activities are Bible-based and are great for use in Sunday school, preschool, home school, and on special occasions.

Fall Crafts and Activities for Kids

Basket Full of Leaves Paper Craft

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.

Natural Wreaths

What you willl 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.

4. 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.

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.

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.

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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It is illegal to copy this poem and place it on another web site even if you include the author.

Sweet Treat Candy Corn Frame with Bible Verse

Sweet Treat Candy Corn Frame 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, fun foam shapes from Oriental Trading Company, (Type in 48/15810 in the search box at the top of the page.) 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.

Fall Acorn Craft

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

It is illegal to copy this poem and place it on another web site even if you include the author.

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).
Cut out the patterns, punch hole where indicated.
Cut long lengths of brown yarn and wind tape around on end.
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.
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.)

Copyright Notice - The craft patterns, ideas, songs, etc. on this web site are copyrighted. You may not publish a copy of them on any other web site, but you may publish a picture of a finished project from this web site on another web site as long as you state where you got the project and include a link back to the project on this web site for the directions and patterns. It is illegal to copy this poem and place it on another web site even if you include the author.

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.

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!
©Carolyn Warvel

Leaf Wreath Craft

Leaf Wreath What you will need: Different colors of paper, tag board or poster board, scissors.

What to do:

Print out the leaf pattern. Use the leaf patterns to cut out leaves from different colors of paper.
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.
Glue on the different leaves around the circle to make a wreath.

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.

Scarecrow craft for kids 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.

Count Your Many Blessing Coloring and Activity Sheet