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[For 3-year-olds] Perfect for September! A Collection of Craft Ideas to Enjoy Autumn Nature

September makes craft time with children even more fun.

Here, we’ll introduce craft ideas for three-year-olds using seasonal themes like moon-viewing, mushrooms, and cosmos flowers.

Let’s enjoy autumn crafts together using stamp daubers, origami, and everyday materials.

Through activities that highlight each child’s individuality, their interest in autumn’s nature will grow.

You’ll find plenty of tips everyone can enjoy together, so please use them as a reference.

Because we emphasize ideas that harness children’s free imagination to create works, in the main text we use the term “seisaku” (制作, creation/production) rather than “seisaku” (製作, craft-making).

[Age 3] Perfect for September! A collection of craft ideas (71–80) to enjoy autumn nature

Torn-paper collage grapes

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Torn-paper collage grapes

Let’s make grapes—the quintessential autumn fruit—using a torn-paper collage.

First, draw grapes on construction paper and prepare the surface so the torn origami pieces can be pasted on.

Together with the children, tear purple origami paper into various shapes and colors, then enjoy sticking the pieces onto the drawing or spreading glue and arranging them freely.

Tearing and pasting the paper stimulates the children’s senses and results in works that showcase each child’s unique sensibility.

Using two shades of origami paper is recommended, as it helps express light and dark.

Torn-paper collage of fallen leaves

[Origami Play] Let’s make torn-paper autumn leaves with origami
Torn-paper collage of fallen leaves

Let’s express autumn with torn-paper collage! Torn-paper collage is not only easy to make, but also a great craft for stimulating the brain by using your fingertips.

Prepare a base sheet with a tree trunk drawn or pasted on it, and freely create autumn foliage by tearing origami paper in fall colors and pasting the pieces.

You can also use color pages from newspapers instead of origami to give it a stylish finish.

No two works will ever be the same.

How about decorating the wall with these unique pieces and enjoying a little exhibition together?

Mushrooms in bleeding watercolor

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Mushrooms in bleeding watercolor

Let’s use wet-on-wet painting to make cute mushrooms for the autumn season.

We’ll start with the stem.

Apply glue all over a sheet of origami paper and attach it to a toilet paper roll.

Fold and glue the excess at the top and bottom inward.

Next, use a coffee filter to make the cap.

Draw patterns on the coffee filter with water-based markers, then mist it with water.

Once it’s dry, firmly glue the stem and cap together.

Your mushroom is complete! Be sure to spray enough water so the ink bleeds nicely.

Prepare several colors of water-based markers and let the children choose their favorites.

[For 3-year-olds] Perfect for September! A collection of craft ideas (81–90) to enjoy autumn nature

grapes

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grapes

Grapes are a great origami theme for teachers and children to make together in September.

Using a sheet of origami paper cut in half, you can create two grape berries.

Combine them to make a full cluster of grapes! Grape origami boosts children’s creativity and concentration, develops fine motor skills, and brings an autumn atmosphere to preschools and kindergartens.

You can also enjoy it in various ways—display it on the wall, use it for pretend play at a fruit shop, or make it as a Grandparents’ Day gift.

Why not include it in your autumn crafts this year?

Grape craft

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Grape craft

As grapes become delicious in this season, try incorporating grape-themed crafts into your September activities and enjoy both the appetites and the arts of autumn! There are many ways to make grape crafts, so adjust the content according to the children’s ages.

For example, you can create a bunch of grapes by rolling thin strips of paper into coils and combining them, or by randomly combining thin rings made from origami paper.

Make leaves and tree trunks as well, and put them together.

These are perfect for wall decorations too, so make plenty and turn your room into a grape vineyard!

Swaying Tsukimi craft

Cute paper-plate craft for the Mid-Autumn Moon Viewing, with kid-friendly facts to share with preschool and kindergarten children!
Swaying Tsukimi craft

Why not try making a cute, gently swaying decoration for the Moon Viewing festival? First, prepare a piece of construction paper cut into a circle to represent the moon, then paste on pictures with a moon-viewing theme made from origami or construction paper.

Rabbits, rice cakes—any design is fine! Next, get a paper plate folded in half, apply glue to about half of your finished picture, and stick it onto the plate.

In the unused space on the paper plate, decorate by pasting small pieces of origami or drawing designs, and you’re done! If you give the paper plate a little push, it will sway back and forth.

Bleeding leaf art with coffee filters

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Bleeding leaf art with coffee filters

October is the season of falling leaves! Here’s a leaf craft recommended for three-year-olds.

You’ll need coffee filters, washable markers, a spray bottle, and scissors.

First, color the coffee filter with the washable markers.

Then mist it with the spray bottle so the colors blend together.

Once the colors have blended, let it dry thoroughly, then cut it into the shape of a fallen leaf to finish.

If you collect leaves with the children in a park or playground beforehand, it may help them picture the craft as they make it.

It’s also a great idea to glue the finished leaves onto construction paper to make individual artworks!