Children's Crafts, Fall, Halloween
McKinlee and Madi LOVE craft time. Our kitchen dedicates an entire cupboard to our crafting supplies. We have everything you can imagine on hand at all times. Pipe cleaners, construction paper, googly eyes, paint, etc. I love making festive crafts with the girls. We've been having beautiful weather lately, so I made sure to include a craft that gets us outside. We went leaf collecting to make the leaf wreath below. The girls had such a great time. Mind you, these crafts aren't anything crazy but with toddlers I obviously like to keep things simple. Here are five of the easiest fall craft ideas even your toddlers can help make!
I love making foot print art with the girls. It's fun seeing their prints grow each year! For this craft, you'll just need construction paper, white paint, glue, scissors, a sharpie, googly eyes, and a paint brush (I like the foam ones for this). Make sure to have your paper ready to go, paint your little ones' foot, and press it on the paper. Once dry, glue on eyes and sharpie in the mouth. I write the girls name and year below them as well. That's it!
We love making crafts out of toilet paper rolls! Last year we did spiders with a toilet paper roll and pipe cleaners that turned out super cute. For this one, you just need some green, orange and brown construction paper, orange paint, scissors, a foam paint brush, glue, and googly eyes. Paint the roll orange (this one took two coats). Then, cut out a mouth and nose from the black paper, cut out a stem and leaf from the brown and green construction paper then glue them on. Lastly, you'll glue your googly eyes on. You can also use black construction paper for the eyes, but I kind of love the googly ones. You can make a ton more Halloween friends with toilet paper rolls like Dracula, Frankenstein, mummies, ghosts, etc. So easy and the girls loved painting them.
For this cute little lady, you'll need popsicle sticks, a sharpie, orange paint, glue, rafia or twine, orange construction paper, googly eyes, and a faux flower. Glue the popsicle sticks together. You'll want to glue two other sticks on the back to hold them together. Paint the top half of the sticks orange (at an angle) and one stick orange. You'll glue this on at an angle for the hat. Next, glue the eyes on, cut out a nose out of the orange construction paper and glue it on, then draw on the mouth with a sharpie. Then cut out twine or rafia and glue it on the back. Finally, glue a faux flower on the hat.
This one is super simple and fun for little ones to paint. You'll need a paper plate, black construction paper, scissors, glue, black paint, a foam paint brush and googly eyes. Cut out bat wings and legs and glue them on the plate. McKinlee made the legs into accordions. Once dry, they painted the plate black. Then we glued the eyes on. That's it! You can also make a pumpkin, Frankenstein, Dracula, etc.
This one was by far our favorite to make! To make your wreath, you'll need a paper plate with with middle cut out, leafs and glue. We went out around our neighborhood and the girls collected the prettiest leaves. It was such a fun afternoon and they loved collecting all the different colors. You'll then glue them on the wreath. So simple!
What are your favorite craft ideas for toddlers? We usually do some variations of these crafts for each holiday and the girls love it! Check out a few Halloween crafts we put together here last year. Thank you so much for reaching!
Thank you for sharing your tips. You Rock!