Celebrate Fall as a family, with these awesome autumn paper crafts for kids! From hedgehogs to scarecrows to leaves, everything here screams ‘Fall’!

So many things can be done with a piece of paper! We shared here a number of lovely and fun autumn crafts you will enjoy making with your kids! From decorations to bookmarks, from puppets to party prompts, you can find an idea for every child’s taste!

To start crafting, you will need some of the very basic supplies, like:

Construction paper
Glue stick
Scissors
Markers
Printer

Now, let’s see which of these fun autumn paper crafts your kids will pick first!

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10 Awesome Autumn Paper Crafts for Kids

1. Paper Autumn Leaves

Would you like to decorate your home or classroom in all the lovely autumn colours? And make decorations permanent? It’s really easy to accomplish this if you pick out a few bare tree branches and decorate them with easy to make paper leaves! Or you can thread them into a garland as an alternative?

2. Owl Origami Bookmarks

Somehow, it’s customary to relate autumn season with woodland animals. Did you realise this? It is related to upcoming hibernation during the winter months? Either way, we love it! Great excuse to make a couple of an easy owl origami bookmarks and hand them over to our book loving friends!

3. Watercolor Leaf Bookmarks

Another option for bookmarks to make during autumn season are these lovely water colour leaf bookmarks. Aren’t they adorable? We love little acorns dangling on the other side of the thread!

4. Apple Print Puppets

If your kids enjoy playing with puppets and inventing their own stories, try making with them apple print puppets! You can also use this opportunity to talk about different feelings and emotions they have and about ways to express and cope with them.

5. Autumn Leaf Crown

For little princesses and princes, let them make their own autumn crowns! This autumn leaf crown is super easy to make with leaf rubbings and provides lots of fine motor practice with rubbing, cutting and pasting.

6. Autumn Tree Craft

Make a stunning autumn tree craft that pops out the paper with all the beautiful colours we can see in nature during autumn season! Don’t forget to display them on the wall! They will make every space come alive!

7. Articulated Scarecrow Puppet

With free printable template provided, it is super simple and fast to make articulated scarecrow puppet! Let kids colour in their preferred colours and they are ready for pretend play!

8. Heart Hedgehog Craft

Some crafts are just too cute! The best example is this adorable heart hedgehog craft! Don’t you love it?! It comes with provided template you can print and use for your convenience!

9. Hedgehog Corner Bookmarks

Speaking of adorable hedgehogs, for all lovers, we found lovely hedgehog corner bookmarks! They will surely bring a smile to the faces of many readers!

10. Paper Roll Scarecrows

We always have a few paper rolls in our recycle bins ready for crafting! You too? They are cheap and easily accessible crafting material in every home. And they are needed to make these cute little paper roll scarecrows!

We love how many different ideas are here and how most of them are very simple to make! If you like our selection, you will LOVE a new book published by our friend Maggy from Red Ted Art called Easy Paper Projects.

Holding a collection of both everyday and seasonal crafts, ideas from this book will be a perfect opportunity to sit together with your kids and make lovely memories! Enjoy your time together!

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