Fall Crafts for Kids

15 October

Author: BStinky / Category: Crafts

The time is here for kids to begin their holiday seasons of crafting. Kids love making special crafts for the entire family. It’s a great opportunity for parents to spend time with their kids and create a memory they both can look back on and remember with fondness. I came up with some of the following ideas and some I stumbled across on a some crafting websites. Thought I would share them with you and your families. I hope you enjoy them.

1) THE THANKFUL BOX!

This Thanksgiving season, ask your child to share their thoughts by writing one sentence on each slip of paper (3 slips per child) about what they are “Thankful for”. Your child will practice his/her sentence development, and may get a whole new appreciation of the holiday season! Then the kids decorate their “Thankful” box and put the slips inside. When they get home they can have the rest of their family add to the “Thankful” box with what they are thankful for. You can open the box at Thanksgiving dinner and each person take a turn reading one of the sentences out loud. This will be a good family activity and the kids will appreciate the true meaning of Thanksgiving. You can use any little plain gift box that you can find at your local craft store and have the kids decorate it however they want. You can be decorate your box as creative as you want. You could use decorative scrap booking paper, ribbons, glitter, markers, stickers or whatever else your child can come up with.

2) PUMPKIN HANGING

This project is easy for school aged kids to craft, is lots of fun and adds a warm fall look to your home. The hand-stitching give it an additional country charm. A fun idea is to find an interesting tree branch outdoors and insert this in a vase and hang your pumpkin on it along with other fall and Halloween motifs. You can also glue a green painted wooden skewer to the backside to create a plant poke

Supplies needed:

- orange, black and green card stock
- orange, black and green sewing thread
- piercing tool with mat
- 2 white sequins and 2 white seed beads
- orange raffia
- wire for hanging
- craft glue
- pinking shears or decorative edged scissors with zig-zag
edge

3) PAPER MACHE PUMPKIN

Blow up a balloon and cover it with strips of orange tissue paper using paper mache glue. Leaving the top area opened to when the pumpkin is completed your children can use it as a little nick knack bowl or something like that. After the shape of the pumpkin has formed and hardened, pop the balloon and your kids will have a hallow pumpkin to decorate and display in your home. Again with the pumpkin decorations they can get as detailed as they like. You could even take it a step further and cover the balloon all most all the way leaving only a small slit opened at the top of the balloon like a coin bank opening. Also leaving a small round opening at the base of the pumpkin to place a plug of some sort there to hold the change inside it. This hole will allow you to remove the balloon pieces after you popped it and your child would have made their very own pumpkin piggy bank.

I hope some of these ideas were interesting and helpful to you during this holiday season. You can always change some of the ideas around and make them suitable for Christmas as well. Just by changing the colors of paper and decorations that you choose to use.

Let me know how your crafts turn out and if you have any craft ideas for kids, please feel free to share them.