Doing crafts with your preschool child can be a great way to bond with them and make memories and keepsake crafts that can last for years. In this article, we’ll share with you a list of crafting supplies we recommend and 14 easy Fall craft projects for you to enjoy with your preschooler (including a link to the full directions and tutorial for each craft).
Recommended Crafting Supplies
Here is a list of crafts supplies we recommend you have on hand to enjoy a fun afternoon of crafting with your preschooler:
- A crafting kit that includes a variety of materials such as buttons, feathers, pipe cleaners, pom poms, and popsicle sticks
- A variety of colored construction paper
- Crayons
- Non-toxic craft glue
- Painting smock
- Safety scissors
- Washable markers
- Washable paint
- White paper
12 Fun & Easy Fall Crafts For Preschoolers
Crafting encourages creativity, improves problem-solving skills, and helps develop fine motor skills, here are 12 fun and easy craft projects that we hope you enjoy this Fall season with your children:
This project gives your child a chance to practice cutting and gluing. They will need to cut and glue strips of brown construction paper to form an apple basket and then paint with their homemade apple stamp.
2. Autumn Leaf People
Let your child collect fall leaves from the backyard or the park, then use the leaves, googly eyes, paint, pipe cleaners, and pom poms to make colorful outlines of people.
3. Cardboard Roll Fingerprint Fall Craft
This project utilizes paint, paper, glue, and toilet paper or paper towel rolls to form trees. It’s a fun way to cut back on waste and put recyclables to good use.
4. Fall Leaf Suncatchers
For this craft, you and your child will need to glue square pieces of tissue paper onto contact paper-backed leaf cutouts. You can stick them to the windows to decorate your home for the fall.
5. Fall Windsock
This craft lets kids celebrate the changing of the leaves by making a leaf-themed windsock to hang on the porch.
6. Fingerprint Corn On The Cob Art
Your preschooler will need help cutting out the corn cob shape, but they will have a blast finger painting the corn kernels.
7. Handprint Fall Leaf Craft
This craft project lets your child have fun with paint by using their handprints to paint colorful leaves on a paper plate.
8. Lego Painted Pumpkins
This craft lets your child use Lego pieces and paint to make stamps, then use the Lego stamps to paint a picture of a pumpkin on paper.
9. Paper Plate Apple
This cute paper plate craft lets your child make apples from paper plates that they paint red and green and decorate with an apple cutout.
10. Pom Pom Fall Leaf Painting
If you love quick and easy fall crafts, you should give this one a try. This craft involves drawing a tree and using pom poms to paint the leaves.
11. Popsicle Stick Apple Craft
This project involves making apples out of popsicle sticks and foam sheets. The popsicle sticks form the core of the apple and the foam sheets are cut to make the flesh of the apple.
12. Pumpkin Painting Art Project
This easy, low-mess fall craft is put together in a zip lock bag to keep things simple. The end result is paper pumpkin cutouts painted in a mix of fall colors.
13. Rope & Pom Pom Fall Tree
This colorful, easy craft requires only four supplies: glue, pom poms, rope, and white paper. The rope forms the trunk and branches of the tree and the pom poms are glued on as the leaves.
14. Tear Art Scarecrow
This craft hones fine motor skills because it involves tearing construction paper into small pieces and gluing it onto another sheet of paper to form a scarecrow.
Enroll Your Child At JLP Inspiring Minds Preschool
JLP Inspiring Minds operates a preschool and private K-5 school in Tamarac. We offer a holistic approach and STEAM curriculum that teaches science, technology, engineering, arts, and math.
Our program also provides enrichment activities including:
- Art and creativity
- Gardening
- Immersive cultural activities
- Library time
- Music and movement
- Physical education
We use Frog Street and Early Literacy curriculum programs that are based on the most up-to-date neurological research to teach infants, toddlers, and three-year-olds. Our teachers are certified in early childhood education and participate in regular training and professional development. We are committed to the safety of our students and staff and implement safety drills, secure entrances, and surveillance cameras. Additionally, our staff are trained in CPR, emergency response, and first aid.
Call our preschool at 954-933-2982 for more information or fill out an online preschool application. If you also have elementary school-age children, you can call our K-5 School at 954-746-5437 or fill out an online K-5 school application.
Give your children a firm foundation for success at JLP Inspiring Minds.