Craft ideas for 4-year-olds to try in autumn! Enjoy creative activities with seasonal motifs and events.
In autumn, when the heat eases and it becomes more comfortable, children grow even more in mind and body and become more dependable.
Four-year-olds may be starting to develop an awareness that they’ll soon be the oldest class.
Autumn also brings seasonal motifs and various events that children are surely looking forward to.
We’d love to incorporate these into craft ideas.
So this time, we’ve gathered craft ideas perfect for autumn.
We’re introducing ideas well-suited for four-year-olds, so please use them as a reference.
Because the things children make are treated as works, we use the term “seisaku (制作)” in the text.
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Craft ideas for 4-year-olds to try in autumn! Enjoy craft activities with seasonal motifs and events (81–90)
Mushroom House
Someone is coming out of the window! Here’s an idea for a mushroom house.
What you’ll need: polka-dot origami paper, pale orange or light brown origami paper, half-size cut origami sheets, your favorite animals or people made from origami, and glue.
Use the polka-dot paper to make the mushroom roof, and finish it off in the shape of a cute house with the pale orange or light brown paper.
If you decorate it with small animals or figures, it will open up a storybook-like world.
Cutting and pasting origami will be a great opportunity to nurture creativity!
Three-dimensional mushrooms made by cutting
Enjoy a wide variety of variations! Here are ideas for making three-dimensional mushrooms by cutting and assembling paper.
You will need origami paper cut into quarter size, origami paper cut into eighth size, colored pens or round stickers, scissors, and glue or craft adhesive.
This is a project idea for three-year-olds to make using scissors! Let’s use origami paper to create 3D mushrooms.
If you draw faces or add decorations with colored pens and round stickers, you’ll have a one-of-a-kind mushroom! Be sure that a parent or teacher supervises when using scissors.
Let’s make postcards from elephant dung
April 28 is Elephant Day.
It is said to originate from the occasion in 1729 when an elephant sent from Vietnam to Japan was presented to Emperor Nakamikado.
Elephants are among the largest land animals—truly enormous creatures! Let’s try making postcards using elephant dung from these big animals.
Put on gloves, then wash the elephant dung to extract the dietary fibers.
Using a blender, combine pulp from a milk carton with water and form it into postcard shapes.
Once it’s dry, it’s done.
Please be mindful of hygiene as you make them!
Torn-paper collage mushroom
How about adding patterns to a mushroom cap using torn-paper collage? First, cut out the mushroom cap and stem from construction paper.
If the children are old enough to use scissors, let them do it themselves; if not, the teacher should prepare the pieces in advance.
Next, tear colored origami paper into small pieces.
Then randomly glue the pieces onto the mushroom cap to decorate it.
Once you’ve covered it enough, attach the cap and stem to complete the mushroom.
If you like, draw a cute face on the stem with crayons or pens.
Torn-paper collage sweet potato
These torn-paper roasted sweet potatoes are perfect for an end-of-autumn craft.
Use red, purple, and brown construction paper or origami paper, tear it by hand, and glue the pieces onto a sweet-potato-shaped base.
If you crumple and soften the paper before tearing, it becomes easier for children to rip—give it a try! For added dimension, you can also shape a sweet potato out of newspaper and then cover it with colored paper.
This craft idea brings out children’s expressive creativity and is sure to make autumn events even more enjoyable.
Rock-paper-scissors with roasted sweet potatoes in a wet-on-wet painting style
This is an adorable craft idea featuring baked sweet potatoes playing rock–paper–scissors! First, wet a sheet of white drawing paper with water, then create a blotting effect using watercolor paints such as blue, purple, brown, and black.
Let it dry thoroughly.
Next, cut the painted paper into the shape of sweet potatoes and use round stickers or origami paper to make the faces.
Finish by attaching hands showing rock, paper, and scissors—done! Turn them into stick puppets to enjoy rock–paper–scissors games with children, or use them as fun autumn wall decorations.
Craft ideas for 4-year-olds to try in autumn! Enjoy craft activities themed around seasonal motifs and events (91–100)
Cosmos with a threading activity
This is a cosmos craft made by threading yarn through a paper plate.
In preparation, teachers should have ready paper plates with holes made using an awl and straws cut into small pieces.
To make it easier for the children to thread the yarn, push the awl all the way through to create larger holes.
Then hand it over to the children! Wrap tape around one end of the yarn to make threading easier, thread it from the back of the plate to the front, insert it into another hole from the front, and secure the back with tape.
Adding straw pieces onto the yarn before threading it from the front to the back will make the result even more vibrant.
Finish by drawing stems and leaves with crayons in the empty spaces.
