Ideas you can use for autumn wall decorations
Autumn is full of charm—vividly colored nature, delicious fruits, moon-viewing, Halloween, and more.
How about bringing that autumn charm into your wall decorations and enjoying the season together with the children?
Here, we’ve gathered ideas for autumn wall displays perfect for nurseries and kindergartens.
We’re also introducing fun craft ideas that use child-friendly autumn motifs.
After enjoying autumn crafts with a variety of materials and unique techniques, display the works to decorate your room with an autumn feel.
Let’s all make the most of autumn together!
Ideas you can use for autumn wall decorations (1–10)
Moon-viewing tanuki
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch6onb-uIl0/Children are thrilled by the raccoons’ many different expressions! These wall decorations feature tanuki, which often appear in traditional Japanese folktales.
Pre-cut parts from colored construction paper—faces, bodies, tails, eyes, and so on—and let the children glue the pieces together.
They can work with the teacher, place the parts wherever they like, or even try the gluing from start to finish on their own—adjust the tasks to suit each child.
Just changing the eye placement or the balance between the face and body makes every raccoon wonderfully unique! Pair them with motifs like the moon or dango dumplings to add an even more autumnal feel.
Halloween pumpkin with tissue paper
https://www.instagram.com/p/CjR0JVWLFG6/A Halloween pumpkin wall decoration made by crumpling tissue paper! The method is super simple: crumple orange tissue paper, put it into a clear plastic bag, shape it, and tie it with a pipe cleaner.
Stick eyes, a nose, and a mouth onto the side of the bag, and your pumpkin is done in no time.
You can stick it on the wall, but the drawstring-style look is so cute that tying it to a string and hanging it as a garland is also recommended.
If you crumple white tissue paper, you can make a ghost too—so be sure to try them together!
Torn-paper collage mushrooms
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGCS3jrFMus/A colorful mushroom wall decoration made by tearing and pasting colored paper! Tear various colors and patterns of origami or wrapping paper and stick them onto mushroom-shaped construction paper.
If tearing is tricky, using round stickers is also recommended.
Decorate together with autumn motifs like animals and autumn leaves to complete a fall-themed wall display! Each child’s individuality shines through in how they tear and paste.
With gentle support, let’s help bring out their full creative potential.
Mushrooms and bell crickets of decalcomania
https://www.instagram.com/p/ChrmmAmp52J/Decalcomania is a painting technique where you fold a sheet of paper that has paint applied to one side, transferring the paint to the other half.
This simple and fun method for creating symmetrical patterns is actively used not only in art but also in early childhood education.
If you freely paint a mushroom-shaped piece of construction paper and fold it in half before it dries, in no time you’ll have a mushroom covered in patterns! Paste it together with a motif of bell crickets, whose beautiful songs we hear in autumn, and you’ll have a wall decoration full of autumn charm.
Colorful acorns made with flower paper
https://www.instagram.com/p/CE3GisIFtO4/A cute acorn decoration made by crumpling flower paper! Acorns are usually brown, but it’s fun to make them colorful instead of sticking to the original color.
Crumple flower paper and put it into a clear plastic bag, then shape it like an acorn.
Cut construction paper into the shape of the acorn’s cap and attach it to the piece you made, then add eyes and a mouth to finish.
Enjoy making acorns with all kinds of expressions—smiling, angry, worried, and more!
Prickly chestnut made with yarn and torn-paper collage
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJuq1PvBq9W/Speaking of autumn, it’s the season for sweet, delicious chestnuts.
Among children who love chestnut rice and chestnut desserts, how many know what chestnuts look like in their spiky burrs on the tree? Since autumn is when chestnuts are in season, it’s a great time to show them a book or actually visit a park to look at a chestnut tree, observe how chestnuts grow, and then make a wall decoration of a spiky chestnut burr.
After sticking chestnut-shaped cutouts onto a round backing, add yarn or torn colored paper to represent the spines.
If you attach them to a large backing shaped like a chestnut tree, you’ll have a charming autumn-themed chestnut display.
Autumn leaves with a single-faced cardboard stamp
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKkWa6Hh5Fs/This is an autumn leaves wall decoration made using single-face corrugated cardboard with the wavy ridged side exposed.
Dab paint onto the ridged side of the single-face cardboard and stamp it onto construction paper or kraft paper.
Prepare the cardboard in an easy-to-stamp shape—such as making it into a loop—so children can hold it comfortably.
Once the stamping is done, let the paint dry thoroughly, cut out leaf shapes, and attach them to a backing sheet to finish.
The cardboard’s striped pattern looks just like leaf veins, resulting in a wonderfully charming piece!