Fall Crafts for Preschoolers (Including Halloween)

Leaf Patterns

Collect acorns outdoors and have children place matching amount to number.

October Check-In Board

Coffee Filter Leaves

Using Industrial sized coffee filters, cut out leaf shapes. Mix tempera paint and water (thin enough to suck up in eye dropper) and drop paint onto the leaves.

For the Month of October I used 2 poster boards, drew a field with a scarecrow (for a pumpkin patch) and laminated both. Once again use magnetic strips to "connect" the check-in pumpkins. The children move their pumpkin from the "large" pumpkin to the pumpkin field. (Click on template tab for template)

Paper Plate Scarecrow

Use the template in the template tab to trace the hat,nose and cheeks. Trace hands onto yellow paper and cut out. Glue together as shown. Add yellow strips of construction paper for "straw
hair"

Paint the back side of a leaf with tempera paint. Press a piece of white construction paper on top of the leaf and rub. Remove paper to reveal a beautiful leaf!

Scarecrow Puppet

This Scarecrow Puppet is easy to make using a large craft stick and scarecrow template in the template tab. Just color and glue! Read the poem below:

I'm a scary scarecrow made of straw (stretch hands out)
Listening for the crows to caw (cover ears)
I watch the field all day and
night too (put hand to
forehead like you are searching)
if a crow comes by, I just yell
BOO! (yell boo)

Paper Plate Pumpkin and Jack-O-Lantern
• Paint paper plate orange. Add leaves and stem for pumpkin or stem, eyes,nose and mouth for Jack-O-Lantern (made of yellow construction paper)

Leaf People

Collect Leaves and have fun making leaf people! Simply Glue them to the paper, add eyes and a mouth!

Tissue Paper Fall Tree

Using the Template in the templates tab, trace a tree onto white paper and color brown. Crumple up fall colored tissue paper and glue to create a fall tree.

Finger Print Fall Tree

Paper Bag Bat

Hand Bat

Use a small paper plate of cut out the center of a big one and paint it
black. Trace child's hand on black paper and cut it out. Glue
together like
picture and add
googly eyes.

Hand Pumpkin Patch

Close hand into a fist and paint the knuckle side of the hand orange. Press down onto white paper to make a Pumpkin Patch. Use
fingerprints dipped in brown for the stem and green for the leaves. Add grass and sky with crayons or markers.

Edible Witch's Hat

What You Need:
• Chocolate
Cookies
• Chocolate Icing
• Chocolate
Kisses
What To Do:
• Use a small
dab of icing to "glue" the kiss to the top of a chocolate cookie
• Enjoy!

Edible Jack-O-Lantern

What You Need:
• Caramel Rice Cakes
• Yellow Chocolate Candies or candy corn for eyes
• Brown mini
chocolate candies or
raisins for
mouth
• Banana shaped candies or candy corn for nose
• Orange Icing (you can mix white icing with orange food coloring)
• Green Taffy for leaf
What To Do:
• Spread icing over top of rice cake
• Add Eyes, mouth and nose with candies
• pull apart taffy and form leaf for top

Edible Pumpkin

What You Need:
• Caramel
Rice Cakes
• Orange Icing (mix white icing with orange food coloring)
• Green Taffy for leaf
What To Do:
• Cover top of
rice cake with orange icing
• Pull apart
taffy and form
a leaf, attach.

Paper Bag Pumpkin

Stuff a lunch sized paper bag with news paper, tie at the top with a green pipe cleaner and paint orange for this simple to make pumpkin. Add eyes, nose and mouth from yellow construction paper for a Jack-O-lantern!

Coffee Filter Pumpkin

Pumpkin Counting Book

Create the Pumpkin Counting book above by fastening pumpkins cut out from construction paper like above. Print the following out on paper, use craft scissors to cut out and glue the corresponding number to each page.
1 Pumpkin Seed sits quiet as can be
2 Pumpkin Seeds say "We cannot see!"
3 Pumpkin Seeds don't make a sound
4 Pumpkin Seeds hear carving all around
5 Pumpkin Seeds can see the light
6 Pumpkin Seeds enjoy the sight
7 Pumpkin Seeds are scooped away
8 Pumpkin Seeds want to stay
9 Pumpkin Seeds baked golden brown
10 Pumpkin Seeds planted in the ground
~Debby Hill

Leaf Window Clinger
You will need:
• transparency paper (the kind you
use for overhead projectors)
• leaf template (from template tab)
• 1/4 cup white glue
• 7-10 drops of yellow, green, red, or orange food coloring
• paint brush

What to do:
* cut out leaves from transparency paper using the leaf stencil (one per child)
* Mix white glue and food coloring in a small bowl
* brush a thick layer of the glue/food coloring mix onto the leaf leaving no "white" space
* let dry for 24 hours
* peel off the "leaf" and cling to any window!

Step #2 Glue strips of paper onto circle like shown below.

Hoot Hoot!!

You will need:
• Brown, orange and
white construction paper.
• Glue sticks
• owl template (in template tab)
What to do:
* Using the template to trace pieces, simply glue together using the picture above for reference. Very easy!

3D Pumpkins

Step #1 Cut Out two orange circles.

Step #3 Glue other end of strips to top circle to make pumpkin like below.

Mosaic Pumpkins

Fingerprint Corn

Transparency Leaves

A great way to decorate your windows and bring a little Fall in your classroom! These were made with transparency paper, watered down glue, tissue paper and a leaf frame. First "paint" the glue onto the transparency paper then add 1x1 inch squares of yellow,red,orange and green tissue paper. Paint on another layer of glue and add another piece of transparency on top to glue together. Insert between the leaf frame and glue together, Hint: the frame was made from a die cut (the outside).

Apple Transparency

Leaf Wreath

Cut out the center of a large paper plate and attach "fake" leaves with glue.

Paper Plate Spider

What You Need:
• two paper plates per child
• black paint
• black construction paper
• googly eyes

What To Do:
• cut out the center of one plate and paint it black as well as the other plate, allow to dry
• glue head and body together, add eyes
• fold strips of black construction paper accordian style and glue onto body.

Paper Towel Roll Bat

What You Need:
•Paper Towel Roll, cut in half
• black paint
• googly eyes
•black construction paper
What to do:
•paint paper towel roll black and set aside
to dry
• using template (click on picture) cut out wings from black construction paper and glue to paper towel roll
•cut strips of black construction paper into strips and fold accordion style,glue to bat. Add eyes.

Paper Plate Bat

What you need:
• 3 paper plates per child
• black construction paper
• black paint
• googly eyes
What to do:
• cut out the center of one of the paper plates and paint it black.
• paint the other two paper plates black,dry.
• cut one paper plate in half (for wings)
• cut out feet and glue googly eyes on.

Spider Hat

Cut out the center of a paper plate and paint it black. Add eyes and fold strips of construction paper accordian style and glue
to plate.

Apple Print Caterpillar

Cut an apple in half and dip into red, yellow, or green paint and stamp onto small paper plates. Connect using a hole puncher and yarn. Add multi-colored feet, googly eyes, pom pom for nose and a pipe cleaner for the antennaes.

Paper Plate Ghost

Attach white crepe paper to a paper plate, add
googly eyes and color a mouth with a marker.

Torn Paper Pumpkin

Give each child a paper plate, a glue stick, orange, brown, black and green construction paper. Tear paper into pieces and glue onto the plate like shown.

Edible Cookie Ghosts

What You Need:
• Vienna Fingers
• White Icing
• Mini chocolate candies
• Plastic knives
What To Do:
• Cover the top and side of the cookies with icing using plastic knives
• Add chocolate candies for eyes and mouth

Paper Plate Spider Web

What You Need:
• Sturdy white paper plates
• Hole puncher
• White yarn
• Bobby pins
• Spider rings
What To Do:
• Punch holes around the plate like above
• Attach one end of yarn through first hole and tie off
• Attach bobby pin to other end and weave the yarn through the hole going across the plate back and forth, tie off end when all yarn is gone
• Cut ring apart in the middle and attach to the web

Edible Spider Cookies

What You Need:
• Chocolate Cookies
• Chocolate Icing
• Chocolate Kisses
What To Do:
• Use a small dab of icing to "glue" the kiss to the top of a
chocolate cookie
• Enjoy!

What's Inside?

Create this "Look And See" pumpkin by fastening two pumpkins made from construction paper together. Glue white yarn and pumpkin
seeds in the
inside. (See Below)

Paper Mache Pumpkin

Blow up a balloon to about the size of a small pumpkin and tie. Mix equal parts water and flour in a bowl. Tear strips of newspaper and dip one at a time into the flour and water mixture. Cover the balloon and smooth. For the last layer use plain newsprint paper (easier to paint). Allow to dry for about 24 hours. Paint orange and add a pipe cleaner for the leaves by tying around the top of the balloon.

Pumpkin Marble Painting

Cut out various sizes of pumpkins from
white construction paper. Place a pumpkin on the bottom of a shallow bin. Squirt orange paint onto the pumpkin and place marbles in paint. Roll the marbles around by picking up the bin and tilting so they cover the pumpkin.

Counting Acorns

Cut out squirrels from paper and color. Attach to the side of cups like above. Place the amount of acorns in the cup that is on the squirrels belly.

Paint a baby food top black with acrylic paint and allow to dry. Glue on legs made from construction paper and add eyes.

Leaf Marble Art

Use the leaf template in template tab and trace onto white construction paper and cut out. Place the leaf into a shallow bin flat onto the bottom. Squirt fall tempera colors onto the leaf in different places. Add 4-5 marbles and move the bin around to create marble art.

Leaf Prints

Leaf Prints
•Use dried out leaves for this project
• Tape a piece of white paper over a leaf onto the table (to keep paper in place)
•rub crayons over the leaf for a beautiful leaf rubbing