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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).

[For 3-year-olds] Perfect for September! A collection of craft ideas to enjoy autumn nature (21–30)

A dragonfly made from rolled origami

[Preschool Craft] Make it with origami! Cute autumn dragonflies
A dragonfly made from rolled origami

Why not enjoy autumn by making a semi-3D dragonfly using origami and construction paper? First, draw your favorite patterns with crayons on construction paper cut into dragonfly wing shapes.

Next, attach the wings to a long, thin strip of construction paper.

Fold a sheet of origami paper in half, then cut along the crease.

Fold again into strips a few centimeters wide and cut them out.

After cutting several colors of origami paper, roll each piece and glue it to hold its shape.

Finally, arrange and glue the rolled origami pieces onto the dragonfly’s body section, add the eye parts, and you’re done! Try making colorful dragonflies with the kids.

Grapes made with origami

Open the origami after folding it into a triangle, and place it so the crease runs horizontally.

Fold the two left edges in to meet the crease, then fold the right corner toward the center.

If the origami forms an isosceles triangle, the base for the grapes is complete.

Apply double-sided tape to the front and attach crumpled tissue paper to represent the grape berries.

Finally, glue on a stem made from construction paper to finish.

Using several shades of the same color for the tissue paper gives a vibrant look.

Switch to green to make muscat grapes.

How to fold a 3D persimmon that even 3-year-olds can make!

[Origami] Persimmon 3D Box – Easy Tutorial – Autumn Origami That Kids Can Make From Age 3 – Child-Friendly Instructions – September/October/November Origami [Origami]
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.

An easy way to fold fallen leaves (origami)

[Origami] Fallen Leaf – Easy Folding Method, 3D Crafting – Autumn Origami Kids Can Make from Age 3 – Origami for September, October, and November [Origami]
An easy way to fold fallen leaves (origami)

Fold the paper into a triangle with the colored side on the inside.

Next, fold the base of the triangle back diagonally, leaving about 2 cm from the edge.

Then place it so the 90-degree corner is at the lower right, and fold so that the tip points downward.

From there, continue folding in an accordion (zigzag) manner so that each fold overlaps the one you just made.

When you open up the part you’ve been folding at the end, you’ll have a fallen leaf with veins expressed by the crease lines! Using various colors of origami paper—brown, orange, yellow, and so on—might make it feel like you’re enjoying autumn leaf viewing.

Easy! Halloween Pumpkin

[Origami] Halloween Pumpkin [Easy, for ages 3 and up] (Halloween origami)
Easy! Halloween Pumpkin

Fold the origami paper twice to make a small square.

Flatten both of the pocket sections formed by the folds into triangles, then fold the left and right edges of one of the triangles toward the center line.

Turn the paper over and fold up the part sticking out at the bottom to hide it as a triangle.

Next, fold the left and right corners of the other triangle toward the center line, then tuck the two corners created by the folds slightly inward.

Finally, fold the top corner downward, then fold it back up a little so the tip sticks out slightly, and your pumpkin is complete.

How to fold a cute fox

[Origami] Fox - Easy, Cute, Autumn
How to fold a cute fox

After folding the origami paper in half into a square twice to make creases, open it, then fold the left and right edges to meet the central crease.

Next, fold the top and bottom edges to meet the horizontal central crease.

Open and flatten the folded top and bottom sections into boat shapes, then make a mountain fold down the center so the two boats overlap.

Hold the lower-left corner of the top boat and fold it upward perpendicular to the boat to form the fox’s face.

Fold the right corner upward toward the back, keeping the two layers together.

The remaining part is the body, and the section you just folded up is the tail.

Draw the face to finish it cutely.

Perfect for Halloween! Halloween pumpkin

[Origami] Halloween Pumpkin – Easy Folding Method – Autumn Origami Kids Can Make from Age 3 – How to Make for Children – October Origami [Origami]
Perfect for Halloween! Halloween pumpkin

You can make an essential Halloween pumpkin with simple steps.

Fold the origami paper in half twice to make a square, then squash the pocketed sections to form two triangles.

Fold both side edges of the triangles toward the center line, flip the paper over, and fold the protruding corners inward.

Next, fold the left and right corners of the triangle toward the center line, then fold the newly created corners into small triangles to round the shape.

Finally, fold down the top corner, and fold it back so a little tip sticks up—your pumpkin is complete!