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[Crafts for 3-Year-Olds] A Collection of Fun Ideas for Autumn! Let's Incorporate Seasonal Motifs
Autumn is a season when you can really feel nature, with things like nuts and fallen leaves.
There are also plenty of events, such as Respect for the Aged Day and Halloween.
You’d love to enjoy making crafts, but don’t have time to come up with ideas…
For teachers like you, we’ve gathered craft ideas that three-year-olds can enjoy in autumn! We introduce a variety of ideas with different aims—using natural materials or creating items for events.
Please use these as a reference and enjoy calm, autumnal days with the children.
Note: Since items made by children are treated as works (artworks), we use the term “seisaku” (制作) in the text.
[Crafts for 3-Year-Olds] A Special Collection of Ideas to Enjoy in Autumn! Let’s Incorporate Seasonal Motifs (1–10)
Autumn leaves of ginkgo stamps
Why not make stamps shaped like ginkgo leaves using sponges and try using them for your art project? If you stamp a lot, you’ll end up with a colorful autumn ginkgo tree! First, cut the sponges into ginkgo leaf shapes and prepare several of them.
We often imagine ginkgo leaves as yellow, but how about stamping with a variety of colors—deeper hues from autumn foliage, green, or even brown for dried leaves? It might be nice to stamp together on a large sheet of paper to create a big piece and use it as a wall decoration.
[Halloween] AmiAmi Jack-o’-Lantern
https://www.instagram.com/p/CiFKh1ptawC/These days, Halloween has firmly taken root as a classic autumn event.
Let’s make a jack-o’-lantern—the symbol of Halloween—using cardboard and yarn.
Cut the cardboard into a pumpkin shape and punch evenly spaced holes around the edge.
It’s a good idea to prepare up to this step in advance.
From here, the children can take over: have them thread orange yarn through the holes, crisscrossing diagonally and weaving as they like.
Finally, attach facial features made from black construction paper, and it’s finished.
[Labor Day] Bouquet of Thanks
https://www.instagram.com/p/CjctfG-tob_/November 23rd is Labor Thanksgiving Day, isn’t it? How about making flowers as a perfect way to express gratitude to parents and guardians who work hard every day? Use a base made by combining thick paper and colored construction paper, then roll thin strips of origami into loops to create petals, or cut the origami into circles and paste them on to form flowers.
For the stems, use green straws, and if you gather several flowers together and wrap them with lace paper, you’ll have a bouquet.
You could also draw pictures on the base.
Halloween scratch art craft
https://www.instagram.com/p/CjP41AwJPK5/When you scratch a drawing onto black paper with something like a bamboo skewer, you’ll find colorful hues underneath, creating a line drawing with a magical look.
Let’s draw a Halloween pumpkin using scratch art! First, prepare drawing paper.
Use crayons to color the entire surface in fine, random strokes with Halloween-inspired colors.
Then paint over it completely with black paint.
Once the paint dries, apply a second coat, and let it dry thoroughly—your mysterious paper is ready.
By scratching and scraping away the top layer of black paint, the crayon colors underneath will appear.
[Respect for the Aged Day] Photo Frame
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Many preschools and kindergartens are probably considering making gifts for Respect for the Aged Day.
How about creating a photo frame made by rolling origami or patterned paper into tubes? You’ll use a clear file folder as the base.
Roll the patterned paper to form the frame; if you wrap it around a wide tapioca/boba straw as a core, you can make tubes of uniform thickness.
If the tip of the straw is pointed, it can be dangerous, so it’s best to round it off.
Cut the papers to the same length and glue several tubes to each of the four sides.
Insert a mount with slits cut so a photo can fit inside, and it’s complete.
Warm cream stew
When it gets cold, you start craving it—and kids love it too—so let’s make cream stew as an art activity! Prepare a big pot full of stew by cutting out a pot from colored construction paper and attaching white paper inside for the stew base.
Tear colored paper or origami and stick the pieces onto the white area as ingredients.
It’s a good idea to tear orange and brown paper to represent carrots and meat.
You can also use round stickers to mimic green peas and corn.
This delicious-looking cream stew makes a perfect wall decoration, too.
Fluffy, warm roasted sweet potato
Autumn is full of seasonal fruits and delicious foods, and among them, roasted sweet potatoes are a popular snack from fall through winter, enjoyed by everyone from small children to the elderly.
Let’s try making a tasty-looking roasted sweet potato with origami.
Prepare two colors of origami paper: one for the skin, such as maroon to resemble the sweet potato peel, and yellow for the inside.
Tear the paper for the skin by hand into a triangular shape, stuff a crumpled tissue inside the yellow paper to give it a three-dimensional feel, and then wrap it with the skin-colored paper.