[Childcare] Perfect for October! Autumn crafts to enjoy with 5-year-olds
October is packed with events like sports day, field trips, and Halloween.
Some five-year-olds will also be celebrating Shichi-Go-San.
How about making some lovely crafts to help children enjoy October even more? We’ve gathered ideas themed around these events, as well as ones kids can use on the day itself.
We’ve also included craft ideas with slightly more complex steps that five-year-olds can handle.
It would be great if they could take a few days and work on them until they’re satisfied.
Since items made by children are treated as works, we use the term “seisaku” (production) in the text.
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[Childcare] Perfect for October! Autumn crafts to enjoy with 5-year-olds (41–50)
Origami fox to make in autumn
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Fold the first piece of origami into a triangle, then fold the left and right corners up to meet the top corner.
Fold the same parts back to create the fox’s ears, then flip the origami so top and bottom are reversed.
Fold the remaining top corner downward, turn the paper over, and make a step fold with the top layer of the bottom corner.
Tuck the remaining bottom layer to the back.
Fold in the left and right corners by about 5 mm to round them, and the face is complete.
For the body, use the second sheet and follow the same steps as the head up to folding the left and right corners to the top corner.
From there, fold back only the upper left corner to make the tail, then tuck in the remaining corners to shape the body.
Attach the head, draw the face, and you’re done.
Origami Squirrel for Autumn
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After folding the origami paper into a triangle twice to make creases, open it up.
Fold the top corner down to meet the center, flip the paper over, and fold the top edge down so that it aligns just above the horizontal crease.
Open it after folding the top left and right edges to match the vertical creases, then valley-fold along the diagonal creases created at the top while collapsing the paper to form the squirrel’s ears.
Flip the paper over and make two roll folds on the bottom corner.
Make a pleat fold at the center of the paper to separate the head and body, then flip it over.
Cut a slit to separate the top left single layer of the pleated section, fold the left and right sides toward the central crease, and shape the tail using the separated section to finish.
One-sheet fold! Autumn tree

Let’s try making a freestanding autumn tree.
We’ll begin with a series of crease-making steps.
Since you’ll be folding along these creases later, please proceed carefully.
Note that there are steps where you only make creases on certain sections without folding everything.
Once the creases are in place, the trunk and the base of the leaves come together in an instant.
The part where you create the branches is a bit tricky, but adding them makes a noticeable difference in the final result, so give it your best.
For the trunk, flatten the pocketed section, and finish by forming a small triangle at the end.
Autumn leaves that can be made from age 3

Open the paper after folding it into a triangle, place it so the crease runs horizontally, and fold the two left edges to meet the crease.
Rotate the paper so the newly made point is at the bottom, then turn it over.
Fold it in half by bringing the top and bottom points together, turn it over again, and squash the pocketed section into a triangle while folding it to overlap the shape below.
Fold up the lower front and back corners to sandwich the top triangle you just squashed, then open the corners of that sandwiched triangle to both sides to form the maple leaf.
Fold down the large triangle on the front, then squash-fold the left and right corners to create the leaf stem, and you’re done.
How to fold a 3D persimmon that even 3-year-olds can make!

Let’s make this idea using double-sided origami paper in orange and green.
The steps up to opening the paper into a diamond—folding the paper into a triangle twice, squashing it into a square, and opening it—are the same as for a crane.
From there, fold the diamond by layering its flaps, then fold the corner that will become the center of the model inward to create a crease.
Fold the bottom corner up to meet that crease, and then, imagining you’re forming a box, repeat the same folds for the remaining three sides.
Unfold the corners you folded down once, make a slit along the horizontal crease, fold it back to the reverse side, and switch the color to green.
This will be the stem.
The center portion will be the fruit, so shape it so it looks plump.
Let’s make a ghost!

Fold the origami paper in half into a square twice to make creases.
Open it, then fold the top and bottom edges to meet the horizontal crease.
From there, make additional creases and squash-fold the left and right sides into boat shapes.
On one of the boats, squash only one corner into a square to create the ghost’s face.
The sides of the face will be the hands, and the remaining part becomes the bottom.
Use the creases on the hands to create indentations so they look three-dimensional—that’s the key.
Soften the head by folding the corners to make it round, and finish by folding the bottom part up at a diagonal.
Draw the face with stickers or a pen to complete it.
Easy and cute Halloween ghost

After folding the paper in half into a triangle twice to make creases, open it and place the origami so the creases form a cross.
Fold the bottom corner up to the center to make a crease, then fold the top corner down to align with that crease.
Fold the left and right corners to the center line to crease them, then unfold.
Make step folds so the creases you just made overlap with the center line, open the pocketed parts, and squash-fold them into triangles.
These will be the ghost’s hands.
Fold both top corners into small triangles to round the ghost’s head, then fold the left and right edges of the bottom corner to the center line to form the tail.
Turn the paper over, fold both hands inward, and fold the tail up at an angle.
It’s complete.


