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Fall activities & crafts for the the little pumpkins 🎃
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items spend my days with preschoolers, and fall is our season for messy hands, giggles, and colorful crafts! 🍁 From leaf crowns to pumpkin playdough, these activities are simple, fun, and perfect for little learners. Easy to set up, full of sensory play, ...
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Leaves, Laughs, and Fall-Time Crafts 🍁✂️
Hands-On Harvest Fun 🌾🙌
Leaves, Laughs, and Fall-Time Crafts 🍁✂️
A sweet and simple keepsake! 🍂 Kids paint their hands, press them on paper, and turn the prints into colorful fall leaves. Perfect fridge art and memory-maker.
Handprint Fall Leaves Art for Kids
A classic Thanksgiving craft with a silly twist! 🦃 Cut out feathers from colored paper, glue them to a paper plate, and add googly eyes plus a beak. The wobblier, the better.
Paper Plate Turkey Craft
Brighten up the windows with autumn colors! 🍁 Stick real or tissue paper “leaves” onto clear contact paper, then cut into shapes. Hang them up, and watch the sunlight glow through like stained glass.
Fall Leaf Sun Catchers
A magical way to bring fall indoors! 🍂 Fill a plastic jar or globe with glitter, faux leaves, and water. Shake it up, and suddenly it’s autumn swirling in your hands.
Fall Snow Globe
Tiny fists, big pumpkins! 🎃 Have kids dip their fists in orange paint, stamp them on paper, and add stems and faces. Boom—instant mini pumpkin patch.
Fist Bump-kins Pumpkins
A slice of crafty cuteness! 🥧 Paint a paper plate orange, cut it into “pie slices,” and glue a cotton ball on top for whipped cream. Zero baking required, 100% adorable.
Pumpkin Pie Craft with Cotton Ball Whipped Cream
Fit for little autumn royalty! 👑 Gather colorful leaves, tape or glue them onto a paper strip, and size it to the child’s head. Voilà—instant fall crown for a leaf king or queen.
Fall Leaf Crowns
A breezy bit of fun! 🍂 Take an empty toilet paper roll, decorate it with paint or markers, then glue or tape strips of tissue paper or ribbon to the bottom. Hang it outside and watch it dance in the fall wind.
Fall Windsock Toilet Paper Roll
Hands-On Harvest Fun 🌾🙌
Sweet, simple, and kid-friendly! 🍎 Let little hands help peel or slice apples (with supervision), sprinkle on cinnamon sugar, then top with oats, flour, butter, and brown sugar. Pop it in the oven, and boom—you’ve got a warm, cozy fall treat that ma...
Classic Apple Crisp
A spooky spin on a classic! 🏚️👻 Use chocolate or gingerbread kits, then decorate with candy corn roofs, pretzel stick fences, gummy worms, and plenty of orange-and-black icing. Creepy, cute, and totally edible.
Halloween gingerbread houses
A little messy but a lot of fun! 🎃 Mix canned pumpkin with honey and yogurt, then let kids paint it onto their faces (or yours). It’s silly, seasonal, and leaves skin feeling soft—like spa day, but with giggles.
DIY Pumpkin Face Mask
Write secret messages with lemon juice! 🍋 Let it dry invisible, then reveal the words by gently heating the paper—like magic science on a page. ✨
Secret Messages With Invisible Ink! | STEM Activity
A cozy old-fashioned craft with a modern twist! 🕯️ Melt wax in a pot, dip a wick in and out until it builds layers, then let kids choose fun colors for stripes or ombré. Pretty, practical, and perfect for fall evenings.
Dipped Candles at Home
Stretchy, squishy, and a little spooky! 🍂 Mix clear glue, saline solution, and baking soda, then stir in orange food coloring and glitter. Add leaf or pumpkin confetti for the ultimate autumn slime experience. ✨
Fall Slime
Soft, squishy, and smells like dessert! 🥧 Mix flour, salt, cream of tartar, oil, water, and pumpkin pie spice (plus a little orange food coloring). Knead it up for a homemade playdough that’s fun to mold and makes the whole room smell like fall baki...
Pumpkin Pie Play Dough
An outdoor adventure with autumn magic! 🍁 Make a checklist—red leaf, pinecone, acorn, squirrel, pumpkin, scarecrow—and let kids explore the yard or park to find them all. Bonus: hand out a small prize (like cider or stickers) when they complete the ...
Fall Nature Scavenger Hunt