[Childcare] For 5-year-olds! Autumn craft ideas
Autumn is full of fun events for children, like Halloween, sports days, and field trips.
In this article, we’ll introduce craft ideas that are perfect for the autumn season.
Since autumn is a comfortable time of year, there are also plenty of chances to go for walks and collect acorns and fallen leaves.
We’ve included ideas that use natural materials like these as well.
You’ll also find ideas for crafts and wall decorations that can be used for events, so be sure to try making a variety of them.
Because the children’s creations are regarded as works (artworks), we refer to them as “sei-saku” (制作) in the text.
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Also recommended for walls! Origami cosmos

Here’s an idea for making cosmos flowers with paper cutting.
Fold a piece of origami paper into a triangle three times to create crease lines, then unfold it back to the state of being folded once.
Fold the bottom edge on the right to line up with the leftmost crease, and fold the bottom edge on the left to line up with the center crease.
Fold the remaining right section along its crease, and fold again along the next remaining crease to stack the paper.
Draw petal lines and cut them out.
When you open it, you’ll have an 8-petal flower.
Slightly overlap the spaces between the petals by folding them, and place a yellow round sticker in the center.
Finally, curve the tips of the petals to give it a three-dimensional finish.
A ginkgo leaf you can make from a single sheet of origami paper

Let’s express the ginkgo leaves that color the autumn scenery vividly using origami.
First, fold the paper into a triangle to make a crease, then unfold it and place the paper so the crease runs horizontally.
Fold the two left edges toward the crease, then rotate and place the model so that the newly formed point faces downward.
Broadly speaking, the upper triangular part will be the ginkgo leaf, and the lower part will be the petiole (leaf stem).
From here, you’ll gradually shape it by adding fine creases, so make each fold carefully and press firmly with your fingers to set crisp crease lines.
Fun in autumn! Roasted sweet potato origami

After folding the origami into a square and creasing it, open it up and place the paper so the crease runs horizontally.
Fold the top and bottom edges to the crease, then fold all four corners inward to complete the roasted sweet potato.
This alone gives plenty of autumn vibes, but let’s add one more touch.
Tear the roasted sweet potato you made in half, and insert a yellow “roasted sweet potato” made the same way inside.
Now you’ve made a half-eaten roasted sweet potato.
It also works as a wall decoration and seems like an idea that could contribute to children’s food education.
Three-dimensional cosmos

Here’s an idea for making a cosmos flower by combining identical parts.
Fold a sheet of origami paper in half into a triangle, then fold it in half into a triangle again, and place it so the triangle points downward.
Take the top layer’s left edge and fold it to meet the right edge, then fold it back again to align with the center line.
Slightly fold the right corner of the folded section inward, open that section up, and use the creases to shape it into a petal.
With one part completed, make eight parts total and assemble them by overlapping, tucking in any excess as you go to form the cosmos.
Adding a round sticker in the center makes it easy to represent the flower’s core.
3D persimmon origami

After folding the origami in half twice to make a small square, place the center of the origami facing down and use scissors to round off the left and right corners.
Open the origami, make slits, then bring the four corners to the center and glue them—this completes the persimmon fruit part.
For the calyx, use 7.5 cm origami paper.
Fold it into a triangle twice and open it, then fold it into a small square like the fruit and cut off both side corners.
Open the paper, fold the four corners toward the center, then fold them back and create a stepped fold.
Pinch the corners while pressing toward the center to hollow out the middle of the paper.
Finally, glue it to the fruit, and it’s complete.


