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A collection of ideas for making bagworms! Try using a variety of materials

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When it comes to autumn crafts using natural materials, making bagworms is a classic.

Children are always fascinated by their mysterious appearance! Here, we’ll introduce ideas for making bagworms using familiar materials like fallen leaves, paper cups, and toilet paper rolls.

There are many ways to express creativity—such as achieving a realistic texture with natural materials or decorating with sparkling cellophane—to expand children’s imagination.

Be sure to incorporate these into your autumn craft activities! Because the children’s creations are treated as artworks, the text uses the term “seisaku” (制作) rather than “seisaku” (製作).

A collection of ideas for making bagworms! Try crafting with various materials (21–30)

[Flower Tissue Paper] Bagworm Craft by Tearing and Pasting

Easy! Let’s make a bagworm with a toilet paper roll ♪ How to make a bagworm using a toilet paper roll ☆

[Flower Tissue Paper] Bagworm Craft by Tearing and Pasting

This is a craft project to make a bagworm with a soft, cozy look using tissue paper.

Use a toilet paper roll as the base and glue tissue paper onto it.

By layering strips of tissue paper, you can create a warm, bundled-up feel for the bagworm.

It’s nice to use warm, autumnal colors like red, orange, and yellow.

Be sure to overlap the pieces well so the base roll doesn’t show through.

Finally, attach the face and a string, and it’s done.

Try different variations by changing the expression or adding more colors.

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Wax-resist painting: Representing a bagworm

A wobbling, pullable bagworm that looks real! An autumn craft log trying leaf-resist painting — for 2- and 3-year-olds

Wax-resist painting: Representing a bagworm

Combine crayon-resist leaves to make a bagworm.

First, draw leaf shapes on construction paper so you can cut them out later, and design inside those shapes.

Draw any design you like with crayons, then paint over it with watercolors; the crayon will resist the paint, creating distinctive-looking leaves.

Cut out the leaves and arrange them on a backing sheet cut into a bagworm shape, then glue them down to complete your bagworm.

Both the leaf designs and the bagworm’s expression are up to you, so it’s a great way to showcase originality.

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[Koeda] Colorful Bagworm

[Autumn Craft] Colorful Bagworms Made with Twigs

[Koeda] Colorful Bagworm

In autumn, many nurseries and kindergartens go out to parks to enjoy the season’s unique nature, don’t they? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to make something using the items you pick up there? What I’d like to introduce is a craft: colorful twig bagworms.

In this activity, you decorate a clay bagworm figurine with small twigs.

If you paint the twigs with colors, it will have a fun, pop look.

Also, be sure to dry the twigs thoroughly before painting—they’ll last longer that way, so give it a try!

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[Yarn] Gurugurumi Bug

[Autumn Craft] 2 Yarn Bagworms! Make, hang, and play ♪ [For ages 0–2]

[Yarn] Gurugurumi Bug

How about making colorful little bagworms out of yarn? First, cut yarn into suitable lengths and sort them into containers.

Next, cut slits into a piece of construction paper that’s been cut into a bagworm shape.

It’s also nice to attach a little hat to the head with double-sided tape.

Kids can have fun wrapping their favorite yarn around the slitted body section.

Another recommendation is to cut various colors of yarn into small pieces and glue them onto the bagworm-shaped construction paper.

Use round sticker dots for the eyes to finish it off cutely!

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Yarn: Threader bug

[Preschool Craft] Make a Bagworm with Yarn! Perfect for a November Wall Display♪

Yarn: Threader bug

Decorating with yarn items can make even the cold fall and winter seasons feel warm and cozy.

With that in mind, let me introduce a project: a yarn-wrapped bagworm craft.

Before starting, the teacher should prepare the bagworm’s face and body parts in advance.

The children will draw self-portraits on the face piece.

Punch holes in the body piece and thread yarn through them as if lacing.

Finally, put the two parts together to complete it.

The fluffy, textured look will likely make it a project the children grow very fond of.

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[Paper cup] Dangling bagworm

Just wrap colored paper around the core! Autumn craft: Dangling bagworm

[Paper cup] Dangling bagworm

When you think of bagworms, you probably picture them hanging and swaying from somewhere.

You can recreate that vibe with this craft: the Dangling Paper Cup Bagworm.

The structure is simple—attach a string to the top of a bagworm doll made from a paper cup and hang it from the ceiling.

Make them colorful and hang lots of them, and your classroom will instantly look festive! Wrapping yarn around the paper cup gives it an even cuter finish.

When threading the string, make sure an adult checks that it’s secured and won’t come undone.

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[Paper cup] Bagworm Kendama

[Daycare/Kindergarten] Autumn Craft 🍁 Paper Cup Bagworm Kendama [Target Age & Notes]

[Paper cup] Bagworm Kendama

One easy-to-make toy I’d like to introduce is the “bagworm cup-and-ball.” You use a paper cup as the handle, and the goal is to catch the ball in the cup.

To help children enjoy the activity and stay engaged, it might go more smoothly if adults prepare the parts in advance.

Drawing eyes on the paper cup to make it look like a bagworm, and then having the children stick origami pieces that resemble leaves would also be fun.

This way, they won’t need to use scissors, making it easy even for infants’ classes to participate.

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