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

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

Last updated:2025/10/8

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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).

Bagworm craft ideas! Try making them with various materials (1–10)

Let’s make a bagworm wreath!

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Let’s make a wreath with a swinging bagworm! Cut out the center of a paper plate so only the rim remains, spread glue on it, and stick on crumpled tissue paper from the top.

For the bagworm, cut colored construction paper into parts and assemble them by gluing.

While real cocoons are usually brown, since this is a decoration, it’s fun to finish it colorfully by adding round stickers.

You can draw the face with a pen or use round stickers for it.

Attach twine to the bagworm and hang it in the center of the paper plate, and your cute wreath is complete.

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Bagworm made with a coffee filter

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After enjoying free drawing with markers on a coffee filter, turning it into a bleeding/absorption painting is a fun craft idea.

Once you’ve made the bleeding effect, let the coffee filter dry and cut it into leaf shapes with scissors.

Attach them with double-sided tape to the base of a mino (a straw raincoat) made from construction paper.

Then stick on the face and hat, also made from construction paper.

Finally, draw the face with a pen or crayon, and it’s complete! The patterns and marker colors create unique variations in each mino, which is really fun.

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Here are two fun bagworm craft ideas using twisted tissue paper and paper tape loops.

First, cut a square piece of tissue paper and round off one side with scissors.

Gently twist the side you didn’t cut, and glue it onto a base for the bagworm made from construction paper.

Prepare tissue paper in various colors to make a colorful “mino” (the bag).

Attach a face made from construction paper to finish.

For the paper tape version, cut the tape to a suitable length, glue one end to the base, then overlap the other end to form a loop and secure it.

Cover the whole body in rows, and finish it the same way by adding the face.

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A bagworm papercraft made with an envelope

Let me share an idea for making a bagworm using a brown envelope.

Cut off the top of the envelope with scissors, then fold the top left and right corners to the back.

Stick on eyes made by layering white and black round stickers, and then decorate the body with colored paper or yarn to represent the case.

Tear the colored paper into small pieces beforehand, and cut the yarn into suitable lengths.

Finally, tape a piece of jute string to the back of the envelope, and it’s done.

In addition to colored paper and yarn, you could also glue on leaves or small twigs you collected on a walk for a cute touch.

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Wobbly fun! Paper-cup bagworm

[Kindergarten/Daycare] Wobbly fun♪ Making paper cup bagworms

Wobbly fun! Paper-cup bagworm

Hang these on the wall to meet lots of colorful, fun bagworms! First, prepare two sheets of origami paper in your favorite colors, then tear each one vertically into roughly four strips.

Next, apply glue to one end of a torn strip and randomly stick it onto the side of a paper cup near the bottom.

You can alternate the two colors or group the same color together—either is fine! At this point, also attach the bagworms’ eyes made from construction paper or origami.

Finally, use an awl to make a hole in the bottom of the paper cup, thread through some kite string for hanging, and secure it—that’s it! Please make sure that a kindergarten or nursery teacher, or a guardian, handles the hole-punching with the awl.

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Make a cute bagworm with kraft paper and washi tape!

[Autumn Craft] Make a little bagworm with kraft paper!

Make a cute bagworm with kraft paper and washi tape!

I’ll show you how to easily make a bagworm using kraft paper, yarn, and masking tape! First, roll up the kraft paper to form the body.

Wrap yarn around it and stick pieces of masking tape on randomly.

Next, draw a face on the face parts you made from colored construction paper, then attach it to the body with double-sided tape.

Finally, tape a string to the back of the face with clear tape, and you’re done! If children will be handling it, twine is recommended.

It looks super cute if you also make a tree branch out of cardboard and hang it, so give it a try!

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Make and Play! Bagworm Kendama

How do you make a bagworm kendama? A DIY method using paper cups [For childcare workers / Autumn craft]

Make and Play! Bagworm Kendama

How about turning a kendama—where you balance the ball on the top or on the side cup—into a bagworm (minomushi) version? First, crumple up some newspaper into a ball and shape it with vinyl tape to make the kendama ball.

At this time, attach one end of a piece of kite string (both ends tied in firm knots) to the ball as you tape.

Next, tape the other end of the string to the outside bottom of a paper cup.

Then cut out eyes and a fallen-leaf-like body for the bagworm from construction or origami paper, and stick them around the cup—and you’re done! The ball is easier to catch than with a regular kendama, so kids can have lots of fun playing with it.

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