17 Nov Try At Home: Fall Crafts

The air is crisp and the leaves are falling. It’s the perfect time to do a craft inside while you’re warm and cozy. Here are three crafts to try this fall: 

Leaf Printing 

For this craft you’ll need leaves, paint, paint brushes, and paper or a canvas.

This craft also gives you and your child a chance to explore outside in the fall and talk about the changing seasons!

You’ll need to collect some leaves from outside. The best leaves to use are the ones that aren’t too crunchy yet.

Once you’ve gathered your leaves you will paint one side of the leaf. Be sure not to get too much paint on your leaves, a little goes a long way!

Then you’ll put your leaf down on your paper/canvas with the paint side down. Push down all over the leaf then once you lift up the leaf, you should have a beautiful print of the leaf’s pattern on your paper!

Repeat as many times as you like!   

Hand print trees 

For this craft you will need brown paint, paper or a canvas, and a variety of paint in fall colors.

Paint your hand and part of your forearm depending on how tall you want your tree to be. Then press it to the paper to make the trunk and branches of your tree.

To make leaves, you can either use paint brushes or keep doing messy art and use your fingers to make little dot leaves!

This is a great craft if you want to get messy and have fun! 

Cup Turkeys 

For this craft you’ll need large leaves, a brown cup, yellow paper, red paper, googly eyes, scissors, and glue/tape.

Before you get started find some leaves that are bigger than your cup. You’ll glue or tape these leaves to the back of your cup to be the feathers of the turkey!

Next, for the face, glue two small googly eyes on the front of your cup.

Cut a triangle out of the yellow paper and glue it upside down to the cup.

Use the red paper to cut out a tear drop shape for the turkey’s snood. I learned a new word writing out this craft: a snood is the red part of the turkey that hangs over the beak!

Glue the snood by the beak and ta-da! You’ve created a cup turkey! 

Written by Hope M., Youth Services Library Assistant