[Autumn Crafts] Easy and Fun! Mushroom Craft Ideas
Autumn is the season of hearty appetites! There are so many delicious foods in fall, aren’t there?
How about incorporating mushrooms—one of autumn’s seasonal delights—into your craft projects?
This time, we’re introducing mushroom-themed craft ideas.
Packed with fun projects that spark children’s curiosity and stimulate the five senses—using familiar recycled materials and unique techniques alike!
Let’s make lots of colorful, charming mushrooms and enjoy an autumn of art together!
As we are sharing ideas for expressive, free-form creations that value individuality, we use the term “制作 (seisaku)” rather than “製作 (seisaku)” in the main text.
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[Autumn Crafts] Simple & Fun! Mushroom Craft Ideas (11–20)
Autumn wall display! Mushrooms and bagworms

This is a wall decoration of mushrooms and bagworms that’s fun to stick on with glue.
First, make the parts.
Using construction paper in your favorite colors, cut out mushrooms in various shapes.
If you’re working with small children, please cut them in advance.
After cutting slits in the mushrooms, cut separate pieces of construction paper to serve as the stems.
Next, make the bagworms.
Have the children help with what they can, like drawing the eyes.
Now for the assembly.
Tear pieces of construction paper and glue them onto a background sheet to form the bagworm’s body.
Add the eyes and a little hat, too.
Finally, overlap the mushroom pieces at the slits and glue them so they become three-dimensional—that’s it, you’re done.
Cute mushrooms on the wall, too.
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Fold the origami paper in half into a square twice to make creases, then open it.
Fold the top left and right corners in to meet at the center.
Turn the paper over, fold the bottom edge up to match the horizontal crease, then turn it over again and fold the left and right sides in along the vertical creases.
Fold the top triangular part downward, then use that crease to make a pleat fold.
Squash the pleated sections from both sides into triangles to form the mushroom’s cap and stem.
Finally, tuck the remaining corners inward to round out the shape, and you’re done.
Drawing a face on it makes it even cuter.
Easy Mushroom Origami Instructions

When you think of autumn flavors, many people probably imagine mushrooms.
Let’s make a mushroom out of origami.
First, fold the origami paper in half into a square twice, then open it and fold two corners toward the center.
Next, turn it over and fold the remaining two corners up to form a rectangle.
Turn it over again, fold the left and right sides inward, then fold it in half.
Fold down only the white part.
Fold the left and right sides of the white part inward.
Finally, fold all the corners inward to create rounded edges, and you’re done.
Feel free to draw patterns on your mushroom by adding drawings or stickers.
Mushroom House
Someone is coming out of the window! Here’s an idea for a mushroom house.
What you’ll need: polka-dot origami paper, pale orange or light brown origami paper, half-size cut origami sheets, your favorite animals or people made from origami, and glue.
Use the polka-dot paper to make the mushroom roof, and finish it off in the shape of a cute house with the pale orange or light brown paper.
If you decorate it with small animals or figures, it will open up a storybook-like world.
Cutting and pasting origami will be a great opportunity to nurture creativity!
Three-dimensional mushrooms made by cutting

Enjoy a wide variety of variations! Here are ideas for making three-dimensional mushrooms by cutting and assembling paper.
You will need origami paper cut into quarter size, origami paper cut into eighth size, colored pens or round stickers, scissors, and glue or craft adhesive.
This is a project idea for three-year-olds to make using scissors! Let’s use origami paper to create 3D mushrooms.
If you draw faces or add decorations with colored pens and round stickers, you’ll have a one-of-a-kind mushroom! Be sure that a parent or teacher supervises when using scissors.


