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!
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Ideas you can use for autumn wall decorations (1–10)
Cosmos in a Paper Cup
A colorful, pop-style cosmos wall decoration made from paper cups.
The base of the cosmos comes together in no time—just cut open a paper cup! Make several slits along the side of the cup, then spread it out to form a flower shape.
You can color the petals after opening it, but if you attach colored paper to the side while it’s still a cup and then cut it open, the result will be even neater.
Add your own patterns with crayons, pens, or stickers to create your original cosmos flowers!
Paper tape hedgehog
This wall decoration features an adorable hedgehog with colorful, spiky quills! Hedgehogs are popular animals that often appear in picture books, and in recent years they’ve grown in popularity as pets too, so kids are sure to have a great time with this activity.
Once you’ve prepared the hedgehog-shaped construction paper as the base, simply cut strips of paper tape and stick them on freely.
When you’re done, draw in the eyes and nose to finish it off.
For cutting the paper tape, you can tear it by hand, use scissors, have the teacher pre-cut it, or choose whatever method best suits the children.
Colorful Candy and Halloween
When it comes to Halloween, it’s all about the piles of treats you get with the magic words “trick or treat”! As Halloween approaches, why not decorate your walls with candy and Halloween-themed designs? Realistic-looking candies are quick to make—just crumple up some tissue or scrap paper and wrap it in colored cellophane.
Display them together with bats, witches, ghosts, and jack-o’-lanterns, and you’ll be counting down the days to Halloween for sure! How about enjoying a craft activity at nursery school or kindergarten, making realistic candy motifs that look good enough to eat?
Ideas you can use for autumn wall decorations (11–20)
Colorful fallen leaves in a collage
Collage is a form of expression in which various types of paper are glued onto a backing sheet to create a single work.
By layering papers with different colors and patterns, you can produce a one-of-a-kind piece full of character.
One idea that uses collage is this wall decoration made with fallen leaves! The method is very simple: glue torn or scissor-cut pieces of paper onto construction paper, then cut them into shapes like maple and ginkgo leaves.
Once finished, decorate your wall with them alongside motifs of animals celebrating the arrival of autumn.
An owl made with origami kirigami (decorative paper cutting)
This is an owl wall decoration that incorporates kirigami-style cutouts—making slits in folded origami to create patterns.
The owl’s distinctive belly pattern is expressed with these decorative cuts.
A flat base works fine, but using a small paper bag makes it easy to create a three-dimensional decoration.
Use origami, stickers, and pens to add the eyes and beak, then attach the pre-made kirigami pieces, and you’ll have an adorable owl with big, round eyes.
Because the origami is very small when folded, please handle scissors with great care.
Mushrooms made with finger-stamp decalcomania
This is a mushroom wall decoration that uses decalcomania, a painting technique where you fold a painted sheet of paper in half or press another sheet on top to transfer the paint.
Using a brush is fine, but I also recommend putting paint on your fingers and stamping—kids’ small, rounded fingertips are perfect for creating fun, pop-style mushroom patterns! Once you’ve folded the patterned paper to spread the design across the whole surface, display it on the wall together with autumn motifs like colorful leaves and acorns.
Drawing of grape paper chains and raffia (lily-of-the-valley) tape
These are wall decorations featuring grapes and persimmons that are in season in autumn! For the grapes, cut colored construction paper into thin strips, make them into rings, and glue them onto a grape-shaped backing.
It’s also a great idea to prepare the ring parts in advance and have the children stick them on.
For the persimmons, simply wind lily tape around a piece of thick paper cut into a persimmon shape.
The direction and number of wraps change the color intensity and patterns, so it’ll be fun to try different variations.
Once each piece is finished, decorate the wall together with tree branches made from construction paper.