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 (41–50)
three-dimensional bagworm
Here’s an autumn-themed bagworm craft that captures the feeling of the season.
Prepare three sheets of origami paper and let’s get started.
For the bagworm’s face, fold one sheet into a triangle to make a crease.
Open it, then fold the corners toward the center line.
Fold again along the creases and flip it over.
Match the corners to shape the bagworm’s face.
For the “mino” (the bag/casing), the key is opening the mouth of the pouch.
If it’s difficult, have an adult help.
Make two of these in the same way, then glue them together to complete the bag/casing.
Finally, glue the casing and the body together to finish.
Draw a face to create your own cute, original bagworm.
Ideas for autumn wall decorations (51–60)
Tissue paper mushroom
Let’s make colorful and cute mushrooms using tissue paper! First, cut out a large mushroom stem (stipe) from construction paper.
Depending on the children’s ages, the teacher can prepare these in advance.
Next, have the children choose their favorite colors of tissue paper and crumple them into small balls.
Once they’ve made enough, place the balls on a sheet of plastic wrap and wrap them up while shaping them into a mushroom cap.
When it’s done, attach it to the construction paper stem to finish! If you like, draw a face on the stem for extra fun.
Torn-paper collage mushroom
How about adding patterns to a mushroom cap using torn-paper collage? First, cut out the mushroom cap and stem from construction paper.
If the children are old enough to use scissors, let them do it themselves; if not, the teacher should prepare the pieces in advance.
Next, tear colored origami paper into small pieces.
Then randomly glue the pieces onto the mushroom cap to decorate it.
Once you’ve covered it enough, attach the cap and stem to complete the mushroom.
If you like, draw a cute face on the stem with crayons or pens.
Torn-paper collage sweet potato
These torn-paper roasted sweet potatoes are perfect for an end-of-autumn craft.
Use red, purple, and brown construction paper or origami paper, tear it by hand, and glue the pieces onto a sweet-potato-shaped base.
If you crumple and soften the paper before tearing, it becomes easier for children to rip—give it a try! For added dimension, you can also shape a sweet potato out of newspaper and then cover it with colored paper.
This craft idea brings out children’s expressive creativity and is sure to make autumn events even more enjoyable.
Rock-paper-scissors with roasted sweet potatoes in a wet-on-wet painting style
This is an adorable craft idea featuring baked sweet potatoes playing rock–paper–scissors! First, wet a sheet of white drawing paper with water, then create a blotting effect using watercolor paints such as blue, purple, brown, and black.
Let it dry thoroughly.
Next, cut the painted paper into the shape of sweet potatoes and use round stickers or origami paper to make the faces.
Finish by attaching hands showing rock, paper, and scissors—done! Turn them into stick puppets to enjoy rock–paper–scissors games with children, or use them as fun autumn wall decorations.
Grapes with a perfectly round stamp
Grapes are a popular autumn fruit among children.
Let’s express grapes using construction paper and stamps made from lactic acid drink containers.
First, as prep, cut out the overall shape of a grape cluster from construction paper.
Also prepare plenty of purple circles.
Using a variety of purple shades will make the final result look beautiful.
Have the children freely glue the circles onto the grape cluster, then use the lactic acid drink containers to stamp round shapes on top.
The overlap of the paper circles and the stamped circles creates an artistic finish.
Hang them up with purple raffia (suzuran tape) for display.
Squirrel Wreath
How about making a super-cute squirrel wreath to feel the autumn season? As prep work, the teacher should cut construction paper into 3.5 cm-wide strips.
Choose autumnal colors like yellow, orange, and red.
Have the children stamp patterns on the paper with cotton swabs or decorate it with stickers.
Once the decorating is done, apply glue along a 2 cm-wide section and form each strip into a loop.
After making nine loops, thread a string through their centers to connect them and shape them into a circular wreath.
Next, glue acorns onto the wreath and attach a squirrel face made from construction paper to finish it off!