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!
- [Childcare] November wall decorations and autumn craft ideas
- Preschool: Autumn-Themed Craft Ideas Recommended for November
- Fun November craft ideas for 1-year-olds!
- Introducing ideas for September wall displays and autumn-themed wall and room decorations
- Ideas for October wall decorations: an autumn wall display that makes use of children’s artwork.
- [Childcare] Autumn craft ideas
- September: Autumn crafts! Ideas you can use in childcare
- [October] Craft ideas for fall you can use in childcare
- [Autumn Activities] Nature Play and Craft Ideas for Fall to Incorporate into Childcare!
- [Crafts for 3-Year-Olds] A Collection of Fun Ideas for Autumn! Let's Incorporate Seasonal Motifs
- Craft ideas for 4-year-olds to try in autumn! Enjoy creative activities with seasonal motifs and events.
- Exciting September crafts for 4-year-olds! A special collection of fun ideas with autumn-themed motifs
- [Childcare] For 5-year-olds! Autumn craft ideas
Ideas for Autumn Wall Decorations (71–80)
Sweet potatoes made with paint and scrap paper
As an autumn activity, some preschools may go on sweet potato digging outings.
Here’s a way to create three-dimensional sweet potatoes that children love.
First, prepare paper for the outer surface and paper to stuff inside.
Newspaper or paper used as cushioning in online shopping packages works well.
Next, crumple the inner paper and shape it like a sweet potato.
Observing a real one or looking at picture books will make it easier for children to imagine.
Then wrap the inside with the outer paper, paint it with the color of a sweet potato, and let it dry.
You’ll have a one-of-a-kind sweet potato where you can feel each child’s individuality in the way they painted it!
Autumn of art, drawing freely
We often have plenty of chances to draw.
So here’s an idea that lets you feel the autumn season.
First, draw freely—finger painting or decalcomania are both great.
Once the artwork is finished, mount it on brown construction paper to make it look like it’s in a frame.
After that, add a paper cutout of a child so it looks like the child is doing the drawing.
That alone is wonderful, but for the finishing touch, decorate it with fallen leaves and more.
It’ll create a perfect “autumn of the arts” atmosphere.
Cosmos flowers made of tissue paper
If you make cosmos flowers out of tissue paper, they’ll turn out soft and cute.
Accordion-fold the tissue paper, cut it in half, and then fold each piece in half.
On the side opposite the folded center, snip jagged cuts; when you open it up, you’ll have cosmos petals.
Roll a small ball from yellow tissue paper and stick it in the center of the cosmos you just made, and it’s complete.
Make lots and stick them on the wall, and a cosmos field will appear in your room! Adjust the parts that involve cutting, and other steps as needed on the teacher’s side according to the children’s ages.
Making grapes with glue and crayons
Here’s an idea for a craft you can enjoy while chatting about how autumn is full of delicious foods: making grapes.
Prepare circles cut from origami or colored paper and paste them in overlapping layers to fill the drawing paper with a big bunch of grapes.
Apply glue to the back of the round pieces and create both large and small grapes.
Attach grape leaves as well, and draw the grape vines with crayons.
You can also try drawing grapes of different colors with crayons.
Why not make this craft while talking about the many different varieties of grapes?
Bright-red persimmon
It’s an idea for making a three-dimensional persimmon.
Accordion-fold the origami paper and fold it in half, then glue the folded edges together.
Make two of these, attach their ends to each other to form a circle.
Make three circles in total.
Thread and secure some twine through one of the three.
Use double-sided tape to attach the remaining two to the back of the piece with the twine.
Finally, thread a leaf piece onto the twine to finish.
If you use red origami paper, you can make an apple as well, so try making them together for an autumn wall display.
Ginkgo Stamp
How about cutting a sponge into the shape of a ginkgo leaf and making prints with it? On white construction paper, stamp lots of ginkgo-like colors such as green, yellow, brown, and orange.
Once the prints are dry, cut them out to suggest a cluster of leaves, then attach them to a paper trunk and a hill where the ginkgo tree stands.
Make a cute squirrel out of paper too, and place it next to the ginkgo.
Depending on the size of the display area on the wall, you could also make several ginkgo trees and turn them into a ginkgo-lined avenue.
Feel free to get creative and arrange it as you like.
Footprints and sticker mushrooms
Let’s try making mushrooms using children’s footprints! First, trace the children’s footprints onto construction paper.
These footprints will be used as the mushroom stems.
Next, cut out mushroom cap shapes from construction paper.
Depending on the children’s ages, have the teacher handle this step.
Once the caps are ready, attach them to the heel side of the footprints.
Then, stick round stickers onto the caps to create the mushroom spots, and you’re done! For decoration, we recommend drawing autumn-themed pictures around the mushrooms, adding leaves and seasonal foods made from construction or origami paper, or gluing on fallen leaves collected from the playground.
In conclusion
We introduced recommended ideas for autumn wall displays.
By using materials that evoke warmth—such as yarn, tissue paper, and cardboard—you can create wall decorations with a deeper, more autumnal feel.
As you display the children’s free-spirited, unique creations together, add the distinctive atmosphere of your class to the wall decor.
Decorate the room brightly and let everyone enjoy the feeling of autumn together.