Craft ideas for 2-year-olds! A cute collection of creations to enjoy October events

Autumn Harvest Tasting Adventure

[For 2-year-olds] Let's go autumn taste hunting!

How about making sweet potatoes, grapes, and persimmons and enjoying an at-home autumn harvest? You can search for sweet potatoes under sheets of newspaper, pick persimmons from a “tree,” and harvest grapes hung up with twine and clothespins—it’s a play activity that lets you fully experience the flavors of fall.

It’s rare to harvest all these autumn treats together, so take this chance to enjoy it.

Carrying a paper bag around makes it feel like you’re shopping, which adds to the fun.

For children aged two and up, you can even start by making the fruit themselves.

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Expressing autumn with paint

In the art-filled autumn (November), the two-year-old class at a nursery school in Fukui City expressed autumn with paints! How fun!

Let’s paint newspaper with autumn-colored paints and express ourselves to the fullest! As children reach age two, activities using paint gradually increase.

To let them fully enjoy working with paints and brushes, give each child one sheet of newspaper and a brush, and have fun with expressive painting.

Prepare paints in colors like brown, yellow, and orange, then let the children paint the newspaper however they like.

Be mindful not to interrupt their activity so they can stay focused.

The experience of painting to their heart’s content will become a precious memory for the children.

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Making a crown out of fallen leaves

[Autumn Craft] Let's make a crown with fallen leaves!

Playing outside in the fall feels so nice, doesn’t it? Let’s use the fallen leaves carried in by the gentle breeze to make leaf crowns! For prep, cut copier paper or construction paper to the width of a crown; if you use A3 copier paper, dividing it into thirds makes a very handy width.

Have the children find their favorite leaves and stick them onto the strip with clear tape.

Once they’re satisfied, fit it to their head size and staple it.

Since staples can be sharp, reinforce the area with tape for safety.

And that’s it—your super cute leaf crown is complete!

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Animals Made of Fallen Leaves

[Autumn Craft] Let’s Make Animals with Fallen Leaves ♪ You can use leaves you make or real ones you’ve picked up! [For 2-year-olds]

Let’s make animals by sticking on colorful fallen leaves.

Using real leaves turns out cute, but if you’re worried about bugs or dirt, you can make leaves from construction paper for a cleaner finish.

Folding leaves is difficult for two-year-olds, so it’s best for the teacher to prepare them in advance.

Also, when sticking the leaves on, it helps to show a sample so children can picture the result.

Carefully layer and glue the leaves onto a body made from a paper plate, add round stickers for the eyes, and you’re done! Try getting creative to see what kinds of animals you can make.

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tsukada moe

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Stained glass of fallen leaves

[Nursery/Kindergarten] Let's Make Stained Glass with Fallen Leaves! #shorts

The autumn foliage you see when taking walks with the kids is so beautiful, isn’t it? If you could turn the various shapes and sizes of fallen leaves you pick up on your walk into stained glass, it would make it even more fun.

This stained glass craft is easy to make, so definitely try it with the children.

The materials are a hard clear case and masking tape.

Stick masking tape around the edge of the hard case, put the fallen leaves inside the case, and you’re done! Kids will feel especially happy about stained glass made with leaves they picked themselves.

If you line up the finished pieces and stick them on a window, they might look even prettier.

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Let’s express ourselves using fallen leaves

[Autumn Crafts] Four Painting Techniques Using Fallen Leaves and How to Do Them [Nursery School/Kindergarten]

I’ll introduce four painting techniques using fallen leaves.

First is wax-resist painting.

Draw leaves with crayons, then lightly wash over them with diluted paint.

If you use a white crayon, the leaves pop out in a fun way.

Second is fold-dyeing with coffee filters, third is leaf rubbing to transfer the leaf’s pattern onto paper, and lastly, stamping by turning leaves into stamps.

You can cut out the leaves made with these techniques to create bagworms, or use the leaf shapes to make original pictures—perfect for a variety of autumn crafts!

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Fallen leaf art

Autumn activities for childcare: How to make fallen-leaf art

Let’s make leaf art using the fallen leaves you picked up on a walk! Cut cardboard into the shape of a hedgehog and glue the leaves onto it.

It might be easier for children if you start by spreading glue over the cardboard first.

Once there’s no more space to stick leaves directly, apply glue to the leaves themselves and attach them.

Using leaves in a variety of colors—red, yellow, brown—will give it a lovely autumn feel.

Place a weight on top to dry, and it’s finished!

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