10 Crafts & Art Projects to Enjoy For Fall

We’re deep into fall here in Maine: the leaves are brilliant and the air is crisp!  I love fall and one of the ways we savor it is with crafts and art projects.  There’s the beauty of autumn to celebrate, along with Halloween and Thanksgiving.  Making things is a way to slow down and enjoy the season and holidays.  It’s great for fine motor coordination and creativity…and it’s just plain fun!  Here are some projects we’ve done, and some we hope to do this year:

Fall:

1. Fabric pumpkins: We all enjoyed sewing these adorable pumpkins last year.  They’re easy and make perfect decorations to tuck in here and there or give as a gift.  The only thing we changed was using a rolled up piece of brown felt as the stem.

2. Acorn cupcakes: We made these cupcakes topped with a Hershey Kiss and Nilla Wafer acorn at a “Mommy and Me” cupcake decorating class in our town–they were cute, delicious, and easy!

3. Tricia from Hodgepodge generously shares many free pastel tutorials.  We already tried our hands at the chalk pastel apple, and the tutorial for a fall tree looks beautiful, too.

4. Art Projects for Kids has several good tutorials to help celebrate the beauty of the season:  how to draw a fall tree (my daughter used the easy instructions for drawing a tree’s basic shape last year), how to draw a pumpkin, and my must-do for this year, a scarecrow portrait using Sharpie markers, crayons and watercolors.

Halloween:

5. We made these recycled jar jack-o-lantern luminaries last year with a little Mod Podge (love that stuff!) and tissue paper.

6. Bat mobile: This year I want to sew this more-goofy-than-spooky bat mobile.  These will be so cute hanging around the house!

7. Making mini pumpkins from acorns is a must this year–they’ll be perfect for my daughter to use to decorate her wooden doll house.  (Be sure to read the comments on that craft about checking your acorns for insects!)

8. My kids love pop-up cards so these haunted house pop-up cards are a perfect project for a quiet afternoon.

Thanksgiving:

9. These wooden turkeys made from a 2×4 may be our cutest Thanksgiving project yet.  It took a few days to finish and left lots of room to personalize.  You use scrap lumber (mine wasn’t actually a 2×4, but a 1×4), popsicle sticks and a paint stick.

10. Oreo turkey pops don’t even require real cooking.  Some day I want to try making cake pops, but these are darn cute and way easier.

Check out my Fall Arts & Crafts board on Pinterest for more ideas. 

Too many crafts, too little time!