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! Do Them With Your Kids (1–10)
Clattering Acorn
A clattering acorn toy that uses the acorn’s own weight.
It’s easy to make and fun to play with afterward, so give it a try.
Here’s how to make it.
Wrap wire around a bamboo skewer seven times.
Don’t wind it too tightly; otherwise the acorn won’t be able to slide down.
Drill a hole in the acorn and attach it to the wire with a hot glue gun.
Use a hot glue gun to fix the bamboo skewer to the pre-drilled base.
Set the wire onto the bamboo skewer and give the acorn a gentle push—while making a clattering sound, the acorn will drop down.
The movement is irresistibly cute.
acorn maracas
Why not try making maracas with acorns? It’s fun to make, and it’s extra rewarding because you can play with the toy afterward.
All you need are acorns, a plastic bottle, and masking tape.
Leaving the bottle transparent lets you see the contents, which is interesting, but decorating it with masking tape to create your favorite design might be even more fun.
The sound changes depending on the size and amount of acorns you put inside, so give it a try.
You can also increase or decrease the amount along the way by opening the bottle cap.
Acorn Maze
Why not try making a maze using acorns? For the pathways of the maze, use small sticks you’ve gathered from the forest.
Arrange the sticks to form a course on a piece of thick paper or cardboard, and secure them with wood glue.
Use origami paper, cardstock, or leaves to make the course more complex and colorful.
Once it’s finished, roll an acorn along the course and see who can reach the goal the fastest, or try out the courses your friends made.
After playing, you can display it by the entrance—it will make a fun decoration that brings a seasonal touch.
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.