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Autumn Crafts
Start the year off right with fun projects based on apples, leaves, and your new students' names.
- Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5
Whether making art from their names, creating colorful leaves, or learning with phonics apples, your students will find inspiration with these fall craft projects. Plus, you can give them the chance to get their hands dirty for some creative fun!
Included Here:
- Apple Crafts (7)
- Fall Leaves (6)
- Name Crafts (4)
Apple Crafts
Phonics Apples Craft
Support phonics and early reading skills with these easy-to-make phonics apples. Create them for a center or have students make their own "worm word family."
A Is for Apple Craft
Young students will love working with cereal as they create and decorate the letter "A" in this fun craft activity.
Shaving Cream Apples Craft Project
Celebrate fall with an easy craft that lets students get their hands dirty!
Printed Apple Wreath Craft
Once they've completed this fun fall craft, students will enjoy bringing their wreaths home to share with their families. Don't forget to add one to your classroom door to welcome fall!
Apple Sponge Printings Craft
This super-simple craft is a great way to celebrate fall, apples, or the color red. Students will have fun sponging on the paint to create these pretty apple printings.
Fall Leaves
Celebrate Fall Leaves Craft Project
Students explore fall leaf shapes and colors –- even a poem about leaves –- while making this craft.
Stained Glass Leaves Craft Project
Students will love using tissue paper to make these "stained glass" leaf decorations, which will cast a gorgeous glow from your classroom windows.
Leaf Animals Craft Project
Hit the great outdoors with your students, where they can gather materials such as leaves, grass, and twigs, from which they'll love creating animal shapes.
Fall Leaf Art Project
How does one type of art compare to another? Using crayons and paint, students create side-by-side impressions of one of nature’s prettiest works of art: fall leaves.
Leaf Fossils Craft
Get into the spirit of fall with a craft that makes an impression! Students make fossil dough, then create impressions of leaves found on a nature walk.
Colorful Wax Leaves Craft
Celebrate the beauty of fall by creating the wax leaves together with your students, then hang them on your classroom windows. Or turn several into a leaf mobile.
Name Crafts
Nameplate Collages Art Project
By asking students to make collages of their favorite things, you get to know them at the start of the school year – and they get to know each other! These collages can also serve as inspiration later, when students have writer’s block.
Craft Project: Nameplate Mosaics
Students work with patterns to make artful displays of their names.
Making Abstract Art From Students' Names
Using crayons and paint, students create colorful, personalized artwork.
Cursive Name Bug Craft Project
This simple, inexpensive craft offers a great way to display students' names.
- Subjects:Arts and Crafts, Back to School, Autumn Themes
