Tinker with children in autumn - 7 creative ideas

• Autumn craft ideas for children
  • Salt dough pumpkins
  • Make owls
  • carve pumpkin
  • Tinker windlight
  • leaves curtain
  • Make lanterns
  • chestnut figures

Autumn is clearly the best season for crafts - nature provides the material, as well as celebrating numerous festivals in the fall, for which the crafts worthwhile. We present 7 creative ideas for crafting with children in autumn. Thus, gray rainy days, at which one simply does not want to leave the house, become colorful highlights for the whole family.

Autumn craft ideas for children

Salt dough pumpkins

Salt dough itself is one of the classics. There are endless things you can do with your salty dough-based herbs. How about, for example, with these funny pumpkins, which you can set up in the nursery without hesitation as a decoration or as a gift to friends.

You only need:

• Flour
• salt
• water
• acrylic paint
• brush
• twine

The detailed instructions for this crafting idea can be found here, as well as other, creative salt dough ideas: salt dough pumpkins

Make owls

Who can not be missing in the fall of course ">

• toilet paper roll
• Tinkarton
• Acrylic paint and brush
• Wackelaugen
• scissors
• glue

Again, we will give you a detailed description of how to make the owl. We also have other owl ideas ready for you: making owls

carve pumpkin

The pumpkin is everywhere in the fall to see, because Halloween is becoming more popular in this country and should therefore be celebrated properly. Accordingly, you should try pumpkin carving together with your children. Of course you have to be a bit cautious with this crafting idea - but if you are careful and always keep an eye on your children, nothing should go wrong

Here we show you exactly how it works. You will also find a selection of different pumpkin templates in this manual: carving pumpkin

Tinker windlight

When the days get shorter and shorter, you can take care of pre-Christmas cosiness at home too - this is best done with candles and tealights. Therefore we do not want to deprive you of these lanterns.

All you need is:

• old jam jars
• Transparent Paper
• Glue (transparent drying)
• brush
• dekomaterial

And so the autumnal lanterns are made exactly: tinker wind light

leaves curtain

A romantic curtain made of felt sheets is ideally suited for the autumn decorated children's room - whether on the wall, the window or the door. With our flyer templates, you and your child will succeed in this colorful eye-catcher in no time.

You only need:

• Working creatively
• felt
• pen
• scissors
• thread
• wool needle
• Branch or rod for hanging

Here are the instructions with the templates: Leaves

Make lanterns

The lantern procession on the 11th of November is of course the best opportunity for a craft lesson - we show you how to make lanterns and lanterns together with your children. We introduce you to three ideas.

Here you will find the detailed instructions for the lantern procession in autumn: making lanterns

chestnut figures

The classic of the autumnal craft ideas are, how should it be otherwise, the chestnut figures. There are almost endless ways to make chestnut and acorn figures. We've put together a few copies for you - but surely your kids will come up with something on their own.

The crafting instructions for the figures are available here: making chestnut figures