Ideas you can use for autumn wall decorations

9 years of experience as a nursery school teacherShibata Risa
I am an active nursery school teacher with 9 years of experience. After graduating from university, I worked at a daycare center. The time I spent happily with children—playing piano, singing songs, and doing finger-play—are priceless memories to me. Currently, while raising three children of my own, I work at an after-school day service, engaging with children and providing individualized developmental support. Drawing on my diverse experiences as a childcare worker and as a mother, I hope to express and convey my thoughts through writing.

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 (61–70)

Stylish mushrooms made with masking tape

Masking tape comes in all sorts of designs and patterns.

How about using that tape to make stylish mushrooms? On a sheet of white drawing paper, stick your favorite masking tapes randomly—vertically, horizontally, and diagonally.

Once you’ve added as much as you like, cut the paper into the shape of a mushroom cap, then pair it with another piece of paper cut into the shape of the mushroom stem to complete the craft.

Each child will choose different tapes and arrangements, resulting in wonderfully original creations.

Depending on the children’s ages, teachers should handle any steps that involve using scissors.

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A bug made only of masking tape

Let’s use masking tape to create cute bagworms.

Make tree branches and animals out of construction paper, then attach them to the wall so it looks like they’re hanging from the branches.

Give the animals’ bodies rounded brown shapes.

Then randomly stick on torn pieces of masking tape over them to create a bagworm-like look.

Make your favorite animals and decorate the wall with all kinds of bagworms.

It’s also nice to add items that evoke the start of winter, like scarves or knit hats.

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A bat made with handprints

Here’s an idea for making handprint bats that’s perfect for Halloween.

First, stamp your left and right handprints onto construction paper.

Cut them out and place them facing opposite directions.

Then attach a bat head made from construction paper in the center, and you’re done.

It turns out super cute, so displaying it will make your Halloween even more fun.

Plus, when you look back later, you can be surprised and think, “Your hands were this small back then!”—that’s another charming point of this idea.

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Handprint autumn leaves and mushroom stickers

Perfect for an autumn bulletin board! Here’s a wall display idea featuring a maple tree.

Use the children’s handprints as maple leaves to create one large tree.

Try using various colors for the paint on their hands and the construction paper for the prints—red, orange, and brown—to capture the look of autumn foliage.

Small hands, big hands—handprints of different sizes by age will become maple leaves of all shapes and sizes.

Add some mushrooms at the base of the tree for an even more autumnal display.

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Grapes made by crumpling origami paper

Here’s an idea for making grapes by crumpling origami paper that’s fun to create, too.

You’ll need purple and light purple origami paper, plus a plastic bag.

Choose a small, clear bag.

Once you have the materials, crumple each sheet of origami paper into a ball.

The texture feels nice, so I think you’ll enjoy the process.

After you’ve finished crumpling them all, put them into the plastic bag, then cut the bag into an inverted triangle shape to finish.

It clearly looks like grapes and has a cute charm to it.

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Autumn Tree Made with Dyed Paper

Let’s use the paper-dyeing technique to express an autumn tree.

First, prepare washi paper (hanshi) and fold it into small triangles or squares.

Next, dip the paper in paints that evoke autumn leaves, such as brown, yellow, and red.

If you dip just the corners of the paper, the colors will adhere nicely.

After dyeing the paper with several colors, unfold it and let it dry.

Then simply cut it into leaf shapes and paste them onto a tree trunk.

If you tear the paper by hand to make the leaf shapes, it will create a softer look.

You can also make animals that come to play in the tree out of construction paper to create a fun wall display.

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Three-dimensional owl

Let’s make semi-3D owls and create an autumn forest in the childcare room.

First, prepare a slightly large brown envelope.

Then, cut construction paper into an oval shape for the owl’s face.

If you draw guide lines with a pencil, children around age 4 and up can work on it, too.

Have the children freely create expressions for the face using crayons and paper parts.

After attaching the face parts to the bag, cut out and paste the owl’s wings and feet.

Next, draw the owl’s patterns on the body area.

Finally, stuff newspaper into the envelope to puff up the body, and it’s done! If you create a tree on the wall for the owls to perch on and display them, it will really enhance the atmosphere.

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