Fun Fall Classroom Crafts: Squirrel Hat, Book Owl, and More

Looking for some fun Fall classroom crafts?
Follow the links for: cute squirrel hats,
owls made out of books, and more.

 

Fun Fall Classroom Crafts for school-time creating

We looked around for some fun and easy fall crafts you can do in your art classes.

The best projects are those you don’t have to buy a lot of stuff for, or make huge messes.

We can’t guarantee a no mess factor, but we promise these will be fun for teacher and student, both!

If you need more ideas check out our 10 Fall Leaf Art Projects For Little Graders

or Fall Tree Watercolor Tutorial (Easy Hand Painted Cards).

 

1. Squirrel Hats

WHAT YOU NEED:

1. Follow this link to get the free printable pattern. If you can’t get to the link for some reason, contact us at kimenink@gmail.com and we’ll help you get it.
2. Brown, yellow, dark green and light green cardstock.
3. Scissors, black marker, glue, stapler, ruler.
4. Small black pompom for the nose, and large googly eyes, if you wish. Make them from cardstock if you wish, instead.

HOW TO MAKE IT:

Follow the easy directions on the link page.

Fit the band to each child’s head, then staple, and wear!

 

2. Owl Art cut from an old book.

WHAT YOU NEED:

1. An old book that lays flat when it’s open.
2. The pattern printable from this website.
3. Pencil, small paper scissors, glue (hot glue if desired, applied by teacher). Buttons for eyes.

HOW TO MAKE IT:

The website has directions, but we want to change them up to make the project more classroom friendly.

Use paper scissors instead of the exacto type knife. The knife would not be safe for small fingers.

The directions say to remove the covers on the book, but we don’t think that’s necessary. If you plan to prop the owl against a background, where only the front is visible, you will get a nicer result from a thinner book than if you take the covers off and make it go all the way around. However, if you have access to thick books and want to cut so many pages, a round owl would be very cute!

Rather than marking and cutting each single page, glue two pages together on the outside corners of the pages, and cut two at a time. Bigger hands might be able to do more pages at a time. If just the corners have glue the pages will open and fan out after they are cut.

NOTE: Go into this project planning to spend more than one art class to complete. You could let the students work on them during free time, unless that would cause a problem with everyone getting them done. Let a fast student help a slow one, perhaps.

 

 

3. Folded Paper Pumpkins

WHAT YOU NEED:

1. Fall colored letter size paper, one sheet for each pumpkin.
2. Twine, twigs, green paper for leaves, scissors, glue.

HOW TO MAKE IT:

1. Go to this website and follow the easy instructions.

 

 

 

4. Gold Leaf Wall Decor made with thumbtacks

NOTE: We’re not sure at what age a student could safely work with thumbtacks. We’ll leave that to teacher/parent discretion.

WHAT YOU NEED:

1. Cardboard box, two layers cut into 8″ x 10″ rectangles.
2. 8.5″ x 10.5″ rectangle of burlap or any rough textured fabric.
3. Leaf shape cut from scrap paper.
4. Gold thumbtacks, glue, scissors, black marker.

HOW TO MAKE IT:

1. Glue the two rectangles of cardboard together for enough thickness that the tacks can’t penetrate the back.
2. Glue the burlap to the cardboard. Pull the threads that overlap the edges for a frayed look.
3. Place the leaf shape on the burlap and trace around it with black marker.
4. Stick tacks all around the edges of the leaf, then fill in the entire shape.

 

NOTE: If you’re afraid the tacks might pop out later, dab each tack into glue before poking into the cardboard.

 

 

 

5. Scarecrow Faces

WHAT YOU NEED:

1. Brown kraft paper, letter size, 4 per face.
2. Straw hat template you get by filling out the GIFT List form, download the file and print. If you print in color it will be ready to cut out and glue to the head. If you print in black and white, use it as a pattern to make a colorful hat from construction paper.
3. Raffia, glue, tape,
4. large googly eyes (or eyes made from card-stock
5. ), chenille stem for mouth (or cut from paper), a triangle cut from paper for the nose.

HOW TO MAKE IT:

1. Fold the four sheets of kraft paper into fans: pleat the paper the long way, making about 3/4″ pleats. Tip: fold the paper in half the long way. Fold each half in half again toward the center. Fold each of these folds into halves again, the opposite way. The back and forth folds look like accordion pleats, like in the pumpkin craft above.
2. Fold the pleated strips in half to create a fan. Tape the four fans together all along the top of the edge folds, to create a circle. Flip the circle over so the tape is to the back.
3. Glue the face features on, with the googly eyes just a little above the center.
4. Glue raffia strings on the sides of the face. Glue the hat on top. Decorate the hat if you wish, with braided twine, beads, ribbon, leaves, etc.

 

 

 

We hope you enjoy making these fall crafts. 🙂

We’d love to hear how they turned out.

Until next time,

Love, Kim & Dorothy