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 themed around seasonal motifs and events (91–100)
Grape picking in the room
Let’s make grapes—an autumn treat—using chain links, a classic birthday decoration.
The method is the same as for chain garlands.
Cut paper into long strips, form them into rings, and link them together to create the fruit.
First, connect about four rings horizontally, then add vertical chains hanging down beneath them—use this image as a guide while you build.
Once the cluster is done, attach a stem and connect leaves with pipe cleaners to finish.
If you draw guide lines on construction paper, even 4-year-olds can try cutting the long strips themselves.
When you’re finished, be sure to display it on your room’s wall!
dragonfly glasses
This is a craft where you make a dragonfly by crossing stick-shaped parts! For each dragonfly, cut construction paper to make one body piece, two wing pieces, and two round eye pieces.
Cross the wing pieces to form an X and glue them together at the center, then glue the body piece over the center to cover it.
If you score a fold line at the halfway point of each piece, it makes it easier to see where they should cross.
Finally, glue everything onto a backing sheet, attach the eye pieces, and draw the wing patterns, eyes, and background to finish! To help avoid confusion about where to place the dragonfly or how to assemble the parts, it’s a good idea to demonstrate with a sample as you go.
Craft ideas for 4-year-olds to try in autumn! Enjoy crafting activities with seasonal motifs and events (101–110)
Mushrooms in bleeding watercolor
Let’s use wet-on-wet painting to make cute mushrooms for the autumn season.
We’ll start with the stem.
Apply glue all over a sheet of origami paper and attach it to a toilet paper roll.
Fold and glue the excess at the top and bottom inward.
Next, use a coffee filter to make the cap.
Draw patterns on the coffee filter with water-based markers, then mist it with water.
Once it’s dry, firmly glue the stem and cap together.
Your mushroom is complete! Be sure to spray enough water so the ink bleeds nicely.
Prepare several colors of water-based markers and let the children choose their favorites.
A cosmos field with bottle-cap stamping
It’s an idea where you use a plastic bottle as a stamp to make lots of cosmos flowers—let’s all stamp together and create a cosmos field! Cosmos have many petals and can be hard to depict, but turning them into stamps makes it easy to create lots of flowers, which is the recommended point.
Attach cardboard shaped like petals to the bottom of a plastic bottle, apply paint, and stamp away.
For the pistil in the center, paint a yellow circle afterward.
Three-dimensional cosmos made with origami and paper tape
Here’s an idea for making soft, three-dimensional cosmos flowers using origami.
Fold a sheet of origami paper in half, then in half again, and once more (three folds total) to divide it into eight sections.
Unfold it, cut along the fold lines with scissors, and glue the strips together in pairs to make four long, narrow pieces.
Arrange those four pieces in a radial pattern, glue them together, flip it over, and glue the tips of the paper toward the center to form the cosmos shape.
For the center of the flower, either place a yellow circle cut from colored paper, or make a fluffy pistil using packing tape and attach it.
You can make these not only with origami paper but also with paper tape.
Three-dimensional grapes made from construction paper
This is a 3D grape craft that will make you want to pluck it right off the page! First, cut out the parts from construction paper: an upside-down triangle for the base of the grape cluster, several small rectangles for the grape berries, and a piece for the stem.
Glue the base and the stem together, and then it’s time to make the berries! Apply glue to one of the short edges of a rectangle, curl it into a ring, and stick it together.
Make six of these rings, then glue them onto the base in rows of 3 at the top, 2 in the middle, and 1 at the bottom.
Your 3D grapes are complete.
Enjoy crafting while chatting about delicious fruits that are in season in autumn!
Totoro taking a walk among the autumn leaves
This is an art project featuring Totoro, a character beloved by children.
Cut out tree parts from drawing paper and glue them together.
Cut various origami papers into strips, glue the ends together to make teardrop shapes, and attach them to the tree as leaves.
Fold Totoro from a single sheet of origami and just draw the face.
Since it only takes one sheet, be sure to have the kids try making Totoro too.
Finally, glue the tree and Totoro onto a backing sheet, and you’ll have Totoro walking among the autumn leaves! Because there are quite a few steps, we recommend doing the tree and Totoro on separate days.