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[Childcare] For 2-year-olds! November craft activity ideas
In November, when leaves turned red and yellow flutter down, the feeling of autumn is everywhere.
We want children to fully enjoy the charms of the season.
So this time, we’re sharing November craft ideas recommended for 2-year-olds.
We’ve gathered autumn-themed ideas featuring natural items like acorns and fallen leaves, seasonal foods like mushrooms and sweet potatoes, and cute creatures like bagworms and hedgehogs.
There’s a wealth of activities that let children enjoy the textures of various materials while becoming completely absorbed in creating!
Please use these as inspiration and make the most of the artistic spirit of autumn.
Since we’re introducing ideas that make use of children’s free imagination, we use the term “制作 (seisaku)” to mean “crafts” in the main text.
[Childcare] For 2-year-olds! November craft activity ideas (1–10)
Steaming Hot Roasted Sweet Potatoes Made with Chigiri-e (Torn-Paper Collage)
Here’s an idea for making a popular baked sweet potato craft using torn paper.
As a prep step, take a white sheet of construction paper and glue an oval made of purple construction paper on the top half and newspaper on the bottom half, shaped to resemble a baked sweet potato.
Then have the children tear colored paper and glue it on top.
For the potato part, they’ll tear and paste purple origami paper; for the wrapping, they’ll tear and paste newspaper.
Tearing paper creates a texture you can’t achieve with scissors, resulting in a wonderfully expressive baked sweet potato—give it a try!
Ginkgo Stamp
Why not try cutting a sponge into the shape of a ginkgo leaf and using it as a stamp? Stamp lots of ginkgo-like colors—green, yellow, brown, and orange—onto white drawing paper.
Once the stamped paint dries, cut out the shapes to suggest lush clusters of leaves, then attach a paper trunk and a hill where the ginkgo tree stands.
You can also make a cute squirrel out of paper and stick it onto the ginkgo.
If you’re decorating a wall, it would be lovely to make several ginkgo trees and turn them into a ginkgo-lined avenue, depending on the size of the space.
Feel free to arrange and create it however you like.
three-dimensional grapes
How about making grapes—perfect for autumn—using toilet paper rolls? Use two toilet paper rolls and cut each into three equal ring-shaped sections.
Once you have six rings, apply double-sided tape to the sides and stick them together in a pyramid shape.
Attach the finished piece onto a round sheet of construction paper (to look like a plate) using glue.
Have the children crumple purple or green origami paper and place it inside the rings, then add a grape stem at the end to finish.
Making a colorful bunch like Kyoho or Muscat and displaying them in your room will look super cute!
A squirrel holding grapes
https://www.instagram.com/p/CWIQfLfpYVH/Let’s make a cute squirrel holding grapes using a plastic bottle pom-pom stamp! Have the children do the stamping.
They can dab their favorite paints and stamp them onto construction paper, so even 2-year-olds can enjoy making it! Prepare several paint colors and let the children choose the ones they like.
After stamping, cut the shapes into grapes and add leaves.
Then attach them to the squirrel’s pre-made hands, and it’s done.
It’s a lovely, autumn-inspired craft!
Spiky hedgehog made with a fork stamp
https://www.instagram.com/p/CwpSL5wNjG_/Here’s a craft idea that uses a fork to create a hedgehog’s spines.
First, cut out a hedgehog silhouette from paper and paste it onto construction paper.
Next, draw the hedgehog’s facial features and decorate with stickers or bits of paper.
Dip a fork into paints mixed from colors like brown, green, and yellow, then stamp the fork onto the hedgehog’s body area.
By placing the fork marks randomly without diluting the paint with water, you can effectively suggest the hedgehog’s spiky texture.
Finally, glue on decorations like leaves or food items to the construction paper, and you’re done.
Give this craft a try to enjoy the fun of stamping with a fork.
Pacific saury cooked in aluminum foil
https://www.tiktok.com/@asmrtttd/video/7152891407936654593One of the foods that are in season in autumn is Pacific saury (sanma).
Let’s try making a sanma in an art activity! We’ll use aluminum foil to express the fish’s shiny body.
Have the children crumple the aluminum foil into a ball, then shape it into a sanma at the end.
Next, tear blue-toned origami paper and paste it onto the body, and finish by adding an eye made from a dot sticker.
Paint a paper plate with gray paint, let it dry, draw a mesh pattern with a pen, and place the sanma on top—now you’ve got a grilled sanma on a wire rack! It’s a fun craft that might make you hungry!
Making bento for an autumn field trip
https://www.tiktok.com/@hoikusi1/video/7407070105890196744In autumn, many preschools and kindergartens go on field trips.
A must-have for a field trip is a packed lunch, so let’s make one as an art project! Please prepare lunchboxes and ingredients out of construction paper in advance.
This activity will mainly focus on using glue, so be sure to go over glue-use rules and have hand towels ready.
You can have the children create their ideal lunch as a lead-up to the trip, or have them make it afterward as a keepsake—both approaches offer their own kind of fun!