Autumn Acorn Craft Ideas! Enjoy with Your Kids
In autumn, little treasures peek out from among the colorful trees—round, adorable acorns.
Their glossy look and smooth feel somehow make you want to slip them into your pocket.
In this article, we’ve put together acorn craft ideas that are perfect for creative time at preschools and kindergartens.
From pieces that make the most of their cute shapes to game-like projects, we’re introducing a wide variety.
Let’s help kids fully enjoy the artistic spirit of autumn!
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Autumn Acorn Craft Ideas! Make Them with Your Kids (11–20)
Acorn boar piglet
A “uribō” is a baby wild boar, and its small, round appearance is quite cute.
Let’s make a uribō using the color and rounded shape of an acorn.
Draw the uribō’s characteristic white stripes on the acorn.
Then use a black pen to add the nose and eyes, and fix it onto a base to finish.
Choosing a larger acorn is the key, as it makes drawing the patterns easier.
A single piece turns out adorable, but if you make several of similar size to form a little herd, you can create a different kind of charm.
Acorn tree
This is a craft project to make a tree using acorns.
Use a plastic cup as the base, and attach acorns to it with a hot glue gun.
Shape them into a triangular tower that tapers upward so the cup doesn’t show.
By adding beads in the gaps between the acorns, the look becomes even more festive.
Place a pine cone at the top as a star to complete the tree.
If you glue the acorns with their pointed ends facing upward, it also helps emphasize the overall triangular tree shape.
acorn hedgehog
This is a craft project where you make a hedgehog covered in spines using acorns.
Use air-dry clay shaped like a teardrop as the base, keeping the hedgehog’s pointed nose in mind.
Then attach acorns to the clay as stand-ins for the spines.
The key is choosing sharp, pointy acorns that look like spines.
Since using only acorns can make the spines too large, fill the gaps by creating additional spines with chenille stems (pipe cleaners) or similar materials.
By choosing the color of the pipe cleaners and adding beads for the nose and details for the eyes, you can create a colorful and cute hedgehog.
Acorn-cap fairy
The caps on acorns have such curious shapes, don’t they? How about using those caps to create whimsical little figures that show off your creativity? I’ve learned that the acorn cap’s formal name is a cupule—who knew! In this video, they also use pistachio shells and Chinese tallow tree fruits.
Pinecones and chestnut burrs seem like they’d work well, too.
It sounds fun to look for materials you can use when you visit a forest or woodland.
acorn whistle
This craft project involves making a simple musical instrument using acorns.
Drill a hole in an acorn, scoop out the inside through the hole, and leave only the hard shell.
By blowing into the hollow acorn with a large opening, it will produce a sound like a whistle.
It could be fun to test how the sound changes depending on the species and size of the acorn and the size of the hole.
Since you’ll be using sharp tools to work on small acorns, proceed slowly and carefully to avoid injury.
Acorn boat
Old-fashioned play: even without handy tools, people in the past played using acorns.
This video shows how to make an acorn boat and a spinning top.
After you collect some acorns, rub them hard on a concrete surface.
If you rub them sideways, you get a boat; if you rub them lengthwise, you get a spinning top.
You’ll even make a new discovery—so that’s what the inside of an acorn looks like!—and then try playing with the toys you’ve made.
Whose top will spin the longest? It’s exciting to find out.
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Why not try making a Christmas wreath using acorns and more? This one is a Totoro-themed Christmas wreath.
Totoro is made from acorns and melon seeds—surprising, right? Rounder acorns make it easier to create a Totoro-like shape.
For the wreath base, use one sold at 100-yen shops and the like.
Attach plenty of foraged nuts around Totoro to make it lively.
If you make such a fun wreath, you’ll be counting down the days until Christmas!
Nut Parfait
A parfait packed with a variety of ingredients has a vibrant charm that’s fun to look at, doesn’t it? This craft project uses nuts and seeds with a parfait as its motif.
We’ll fill the cup layer by layer, aiming for a look so appealing you’ll want to eat it.
It’s important to gather colorful materials and think carefully about how to arrange them.
If the materials you’ve collected don’t provide enough color, you can add more using things like origami paper.
Acorns, with their brown appearance, might work well as a stand-in for the cereal at the bottom of the parfait.
Cat acorn
This is a cute cat mascot that makes use of an acorn’s round shape.
First, paint the whole surface, then add patterns and the face to complete the cat.
The orientation of the acorn matters too: using the flat side as the face and the pointed end as the tail makes it easier to draw.
Since you’ll be doing detailed painting up close, choosing a larger acorn will likely make the process easier.
It also sounds fun to compare how changing the shape of the acorn affects the finished piece’s overall impression.
ball rolling
You can make a fun marble-rolling toy using a plastic bottle and acorns.
It’s fun to make and fun to play with, so it’s great for kids.
All you need besides that is some masking tape and thick paper (cardstock).
Cut the plastic bottle into three rings, then use those rings as templates to cut pieces of thick paper that will fit inside.
Use masking tape to secure the thick paper pieces inside the bottle.
Once you’ve inserted two partition walls with holes in them, it’s complete.
A 500 ml plastic bottle is a convenient size, but using a larger one and adding more partitions can be even more fun.
When you’re done, drop acorns in through the top opening and play.